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Manner / Manor - Exercise 1

Direction: Choose the correct word in each sentence below. When you have finished, click on the "Check My Work" button to view the answers.

1. That old farm was once the (   ) of a very wealthy man.

2. Harriet's (   ) my of running the meeting was disturbing.

3. People find Jim's table (   ) disgusting.

4. She lives in the (   ) house that once was the center of a large plantation.

5. In a (   ) of speaking, you are correct.

6. Responding to an R.S.V.P. in a timely (   ) is most important.

7. Adhering to the accepted (   ) of a culture will make a newcomer more acceptable to that culture.

8. It was the (   ) in which Joe spoke that upset me.

9. Glendale (   ) is the former home of Jockey Jones, a well known author.

10. Mabel's (   ) attract attention, especially when she gestures wildly with her hands.

             

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