________ a high percentage of Australians may be people who watch sports rather than do them, as far as most of its population is concerned, it is indeed a great sporting nation.
The boys usually play football on Friday afternoon,____ it rains.
The flowers sweet in the botanic garden attract the visitors to the beauty of nature.
It was a pity that the great writer diedhis works unfinished.
The man used what he had _____ his wife a diamond ring.
—Since you like the fur coat so much, why not buy it? —Well, I can’t afford coat.