13.2. Insert the most appropriate connectives. Sometimes more than one variant is possible.

1. Nobody else in the village had seen any such boy, …….. the police were quite sure Frank had invented him. 2. The wealthy man ………. lived there ……… did he put it to any use. 3. This too belonged to a man – ……….. it was strangely high pitched, and cold as a sudden blast of icy wind. 4. Then he trod water for a while, thinking hard, ………. Myrtle sat and watched him. 5. Pigwidgeon was much too small to carry an entire ham up to the mountain by himself, ……… Harry enlisted the help of two school screech owls as well. 6. I swear that I don’t know ……. did it. 7. Harry wondered for a moment ……… he was speaking to. 8. I don’t know ………. spell to choose. 9. Wormtail, ……….. had been sputtering incoherently, fell silent at once. 10. Then came a burst of strong green light, ………. illuminated the scene. 11. The murders had been committed by Wormtail, Voldemort’s supporter, ……… nearly everybody now believed dead. 12. There came a bang from the other side of the trees ……… was louder than anything they had heard. 13. Harry finished reading and looked up at Ron, ……….. mouth was hanging open. 14. He placed the next spider upon the desktop, ………. it remained motionless. 15. The closest he had ever come to feeling like this had been during those months, …………. a large part of the school had suspected him of attacking his fellow students. 16. Harry wondered ……….. he hadn’t spotted him at once. 17. Then he started to edge forward toward the place ………. the dragons were. 18. ………… he’d finally did it, he hurried off to find Hermione. 19. Merchieftainess Murcus has told us exactly ……….. happened at the bottom of the lake, ………. we decided to award marks out of fifty for each of the champion. 20. Viktor Krum used an incomplete form of Transfiguration, ………….. it was effective. 21. Harry asked …….. owl he was going to use. 22. Harry could not make out …………. was going on in the corners of it. 23. When asked ……….. he was pushed out by Beijing, Tung replied, “That is not the case at all.” 24. He has also faced several accusations of bribery, although he has been acquitted on all such charges.

13.3. Use whatever, whoever, wherever, whenever, whichever, however.

1. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency … to rebel against the discipline of the Party. 2. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, … secret and powerless it may be. 3. So the performance continued to happen, once a week quite regularly, … it was not impossible. 4. He sat as still as a mouse, in the futile hope that … it was might go away after a single attempt. 5. It is therefore realized on all sides that … often Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs. 6. Winston picked his way up the lane through dappled light and shade, stepping out into pools of gold … the boughs parted. 7. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention … on an instrument known as a versificator. 8. But at any rate they could plug in your wire … they wanted to. 9. Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp … of what orthodoxy meant. 10. … her mouth was not corked with clothes pegs she was singing in a powerful contralto. 11. … way you turned, the telescreen faced you. 12. ‘Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston, … completely you surrender to us. 13. … his hands moved it was all as yielding as water. 14. She took it for granted that he, ‘the boy’, should have the biggest portion; but … much she gave him he invariably demanded more. 15. … it was, you could be certain that every word of it was pure orthodoxy, pure Ingsoc. 16. … his physical sensations were a little under control the terror returned. 17. The person, … it was, gave a small cough, evidently as a prelude to speaking. 18. It was filled with some kind of heavy, sand-like stuff which yielded … you touched it.