English Vocabulary Exercises | Feelings and Emotions

English Vocabulary Exercises | Feelings and Emotions

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Exercise 11

Match up the halves of these more formal sentences. Notice the nouns in colour.

  1. It gives me great pleasure  
  2. He was overcome with grief 
  3. We wish you great joy and happiness 
  4. It was with great sadness 
  5. Martin was a huge disappointment 
  6. One can see the misery 

 


ANSWERS

  1. It gives me great pleasure to announce that the winner is Mr C. Gough.
  2. He was overcome with grief when his wife passed away.
  3. We wish you great joy and happiness in your future life together.
  4. It was with great sadness that I left my home town after so many years.
  5. Martin was a huge disappointment to his father.
  6. One can see the misery this war has caused on every street corner.

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