Read this sentence: He shook himself, and I half expected a cloud of dust. The author uses a clo...
Read this sentence:
He shook himself, and I half expected a cloud of dust.
The author uses a cloud of dust to give a picture of a large quantity of dust. Phrases like this indicate a particular quantity of something that is not usually countable. For example: a bit of land, a drop of blood, a pinch of salt, a piece of paper.
1. Match the words on the left with a word on the right. Some words on the left can go with more than one word on the right.
(i) a portion of \( \quad- \) blood
(ii) a pool of \( \quad- \) cotton
(iii) flakes of \( \quad- \) stones
(iv) a huge heap of \( \quad- \) gold
(v) a gust of \( \quad- \) fried fish
(vi) little drops of \( \quad- \) snow
(vii) a piece of \( \quad- \) water
(viii) a pot of \( - \) wind
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