The population of China is larger than____ of Japan.
“Have great changes taken place in your village?” “Yes, A new school was ______ in the village last year.”
If the new arrangement doesn’t _____, we’ll go back to the old one.
All the girls swam in the lake except two, who _____ halfway.
To our surprise the stranger _____ to be an old friend of my mother’s.
I asked the boss for a month’s holiday and, _____ it or not, he agreed.