The president offered his congratulations to the players when they won the cup.

They expect that recent changes will bring about an overall improvement in the quality of the country’s education.

I write to my friends overseas regularly. I don’t want to lose touch with them.

A waitress served us. She was very impolite and impatient.

He arrived early, which made everyone surprised.

He wore glasses and a false beard. He wanted nobody to recognize him.

They say that many people are homeless after the tsunami.

I had two job offers upon graduation, neither of which was appropriate for my qualifications.

It was an interesting novel. I stayed up all night to finish it.

Only Mary scored high enough to pass this test.

He is very intelligent. He can solve all the problems in no time.

It’s waste of time to try to explain anything to Tony.

If he wrote to her, she would be happy.

He is an authority on primitive religion.

The test was so difficult that we couldn’t finish it in two hours.

I forgot to lock the door before leaving.

Eating with chopsticks feels strange to Jonathan.

I can’t help feeling worried about David.

I thought she was the right person for the position, yet it turned out that she was quite useless.

He has retired. He watches football every afternoon on cable TV.

He was annoyed because his secretary came late to work.