1. The fox tried in vain to reach the grapes.

2. The storm had a bad effect on the crops.

3. The whole committee was in favour of the project.

4. The personnel officer gave her word that she wouldn't tell any one that he had been in the prison.

5. The story he told us was beyond belief.

6. I could not keep in touch with him before because I had lost his phone number.

7. I enjoy being a big fish of a small company.

8. The success of our local theater has made our city on the map.

9. She is not upset, It is an act.

10. The bank robbers made a getaway in a stolen car.

11. The more wood-pulp people use, the more trees are cut down.

12. Because there is no atmosphere on the moon, the sky there is black, just as in space