CUT somebody OFF

Mar 2, 2017

Study box. Read these sentences carefully.

1. The day I had to work on the switchboard I kept cutting people off!
2. Kenneth slammed the phone down and cut her off.
3. Operator, I’ve just been cut off. Can you reconnect me?
Use the sentences in the study box to help you do these exercises.
- Complete the explanation of this meaning of ‘cut somebody off’ by choosing two words from the list below:
  
  interrupt • continue • making • breaking
  
  to a telephone conversation by the connection
- Which of these are grammatically possible?
  - She cut her friend off.
  - She cut off her friend.
  - She cut him off.
  - She cut off him.
  - She was cut off.
Rewrite the following sentences so that the meaning stays the same, using a form of ‘cut somebody off’:
- Their telephone connection was suddenly broken.
  They (suddenly)
- Operator, the connection with the person I was talking to has been broken.
  Operator, we’ve
- I’m so sorry. My son was playing with the phone and broke our connection.
  I’m so sorry. My son