When reading English novels, I often idiomatic expressions that I can't understand.
.Some of his suggestions had been rejected _________ they were quite impracticable.
It wasn’t such a good dinner _________ she had promised us.
The guests were _________ in the front rows _________ to the president attentively.
.The thing that _________ is not whether you fail or not,but whether you try it or not.
—Jane wasn’t in when Jack came,was she?—_________,but she returned a few minutes later.