Mar 2, 2017
- Study box. Read these sentences carefully.
1. Are you sure he did it? Did he own up? 2. Don’t be afraid to own up to your mistakes. 3. A vase had been broken, but nobody owned up to it. 4. Will anybody own up to breaking the window? - Use the sentences in the study box to help you do these exercises.
- Choose the best meaning of ‘own up’; ‘own up to something’:
- to admit that you are responsible for something that has happened
- to say that something belongs to you
- to feel guilty about something that has happened
- Which of the following are grammatically possible?
- She owned up.
- She owned up her mistake.
- She owned up to her mistake.
- She owned up to it.
- She owned up to make a mistake.
- She owned up to making a mistake.
- The mistake was owned up to.
- If you own up to something, which of the following might you say?
- It was my idea!
- It was him!
- It wasn’t me! ...
- I did it!
- I don’t know who did it!
- Choose the best meaning of ‘own up’; ‘own up to something’:
- Complete these sentences with the correct form of ‘own up’ or ‘own up to something’:
- Eventually the boys inventing the story as a joke.
- When none of the staff , they all lost their jobs.
- If the person responsible , they won’t be punished.
- In the end I felt so guilty that I couldn’t help
- She was close to tears as she taking the money.
- For some reason he refuses to his mistakes
- Eventually the boys inventing the story as a joke.
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