8. All the neighbor admire this family, _________the parents are treating their child like a friend. 9.
--- You should have thanked her before you left. --- I meant ______, but when I was leaving, I couldn’t find her anywhere.
He ______ persuade his father to give up smoking but his father didn’t.
The reason _______ his going to Britain was ______ he got a new job there.
_____ with the size of the whole earth, the biggest ocean does not seem big at all.
People often use plastics to ______ wood or metal.