A. Fill each gap with the correct form of the word given in brackets. 1. be (will) to do
2. be involved (involvement) in
3. be (capability) of
4. be (vulnerability) to
5. be (likelihood) to do
6. be (pay) to
7. be (attend) to
8. be (benefit) to

B. Fill the gaps with the adjectives in the box to form correct collocations.

concerned
comparable
valid
subject
1. be to
2. be about
3. be for
4. be to /with

conscious
equipped
engaged
superior
5. be to
6. be with
7. be of
8. be in

obama was told in early july 2004 that he was chosen to deliver the address, and he largely wrote the speech himself, with later edits from the kerry presidential campaign.

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.