Answers and explanations
- Regret not going/coming to your party. Verb pattern of regret requires an -ing form of the verb that follows. Giving the answer ‘not attending your party’ is not recommended as it introduces a more formal language structure. This would normally give you only 1 of the 2 possible points.
- Wanted to know how much. Present Simple to Past Simple transformation in the reported speech is already done for you here – in the key word. Do not be tempted to include ‘money’ at the end, as it would break the word limit of 5 words in the answer.
- Uncommon for her to. Getting the right preposition is probably the only difficult part here. ‘Uncommon with’ is incorrect.
- Is considered as/is considered to be. Note that ‘to consider as’ is a much less used variant, but it is still acceptable.
- High chances/all the chances that. The phrase ‘All the chances’ is less known, but it fits the context just as well as the more common ‘high chances’. Note the definite article in ‘all the chances’ – it is an integral part of this set phrase and should not be removed.
- Am looking forward to. If you look forward to something, it means you want it to happen as soon as possible because of how interesting, attractive or enjoyable it is going to be.
- Would spend more time outdoors. Both “would” and “used to” are ways of expressing something that happened in the past, but does not happen now. Remember that “would” is only used for past actions, whereas “used to” is both for past actions as well as past states.
- Is not participating in the. Answering ‘will not be participating in the’ is incorrect for the reason of the 5-word limit.
- In favour of joining. To be in favour of doing something; the -ing form is dictated by the phrase ‘to be in favour’ here.
- Is no need to do. It is not necessary to do it. The trick is to understand you can’t just replace ‘have’ with ‘need’ and call it a day – naturally, more transformation is needed here.
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