Would Prefer Exercises - Test 1

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• 1. Miss Vyvyan was about to suggest that probably the strange gentleman would prefer not to accept Cora's invitation until he had received one from her mother, when he interposed by asking Cora what her mother's name was. (not/accept)
• 2. Would people really prefer a figurehead and a symbol of undisputed authority? (people/really/?)
• 3. He would prefer to slay him in self-defence. (slay)
• 4. Well, next to being English I would prefer bewould prefer to be an American. (be)
• 5. It is improbable, if two men were to keep pigeons and act in this manner, that they would preferwould prefer to exactly the same characters; they would, as we know, often prefer directly opposite characters, and the two lots would ultimately come to differ.

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• 6. Besides, I reckoned that Cassavetti would prefer not havewouldn't prefer to have the housekeeper interfere with his queer visitor. (not/have)
• 7. I must take it for granted that Victor Field would prefer not letwouldn't prefer to let the world know who he is. (not/let)
• 8. I would prefer setwould prefer to set down here only that which I understood and felt at the time. (set)
• 9. What man would prefer not towould prefer to notwouldn't prefer pestilence, famine, war-these being mere bodily calamities-to a famine of the Word which is always joined to eternal damnation? (not)
• 10. Were she in his place, she told herself, she wouldn't prefer sufferwouldn't prefer to suffer the embarrassments which the contrasts between themselves and him must entail. (not/suffer)
• 11. I was here to see the head man, but I would prefer to seewouldn't prefer to see him out in the open. (see)
• 12. A certain sedentary majority would prefer remainwould prefer to remain where they were. (remain)
• 13. Would it not preferWould it prefer not Rossetti's "Blessed Damozel" to any street scene ever painted? (it/not/?)
• 14. Would you prefer to knowWouldn't you prefer to know how tall Eppie was, what kind of clothes she wore, etc., to the knowledge you gain of her on p. 178? (you/know/?)
• 15. Mr. Jay would preferwould prefer to his present office.

• 16. Or perhaps you would preferwould prefer to your own maid?
• 17. Would you notWouldn't you prefer an inside seat? (you/not/?)
• 18. But perhaps you would preferwould prefer to auricular evidence.
• 19. If a person were altogether penetrated with the sea, having sea within and without, above and below, on every side, he would prefer not towould prefer to notwouldn't prefer one place to another, all being the same to him. (not)
• 20. And which of these rooms would you prefer me to takewhich of these rooms would you prefer to take? (which of these rooms/you/me/take/?)

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