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vicente · 03-19-2009, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Madgelina

1) The GP's (General Practitioner) office is called a clinic...
2)Mum, I've cut my finger! Have you got a bandage...or Bandaid... ?
3) A specialist... is a doctor who specializes in a certain area of medicine.
4) She's sprained her wrist, so her arm's in a sling... at the moment.
5) My mum put tape... round my broken arm until we got to the hospital.
6) I went to my mother... to ask her for something for my stomach-ache.

Those are the sentences I'm having problems with. The exercise consists of 30 sentences which blanks are to be filled in with words given in a list. Some of the words I think may be right for the sentences above are: sick, GP (General Practitioner), in plaster, a plaster, sling, consultant, and bandage.

Any help will be much appreciated

It would be imensely helpful to have the list of words in order to be certain that you get the correct answer. My answers are based on what I think they might be in the U.S. but they might not be on your list. Use of the word "mum" suggests that this is an excercise in British English so the list is important.