Pretend

1. You shouldn’t pre­tend all the time. Just be your­self!
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2. We were wrong. It would be silly of us to pre­tend oth­er­wise.
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3. I pretended (that) we were fine, though the sit­u­a­tion was pret­ty crit­i­cal.
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4. I pretended to my friends that we were fine, though the sit­u­a­tion was pret­ty crit­i­cal.
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5. I pretended to know that gram­mar rule. • I pre­tend­ed (that) I knew that gram­mar rule.
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6. They pretended not to know me when we met again. • They pretended (that) they didn’t know me when we met again.
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7. We didn’t trust them, though we pre­tended to.
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8. Don’t pretend deaf­ness when I ask you a ques­tion!
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9. When we were play­ing, my lit­tle broth­er said: “Let’s pre­tend we’re cow­boys.”
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10. I don’t pretend to a great role in solv­ing the prob­lem, but my con­tri­bu­tion was sig­nif­i­cant.
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11. I don’t pretend (that) I can sing well, but I know a lot of songs and I can also play the gui­tar.
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12. His new book doesn’t pre­tend to be a great suc­cess, and yet it’s pret­ty in­ter­est­ing.
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Проверьте правильность про­из­но­ше­ния сле­ду­ю­щих слов [BrE || AmE]:

• otherwise – [ˈʌðəwaɪz || ˈʌðərwaɪz]
• pretty – [ˈprɪti]
• deafness – [ˈdefnəs]
• a cowboy – [ˈkaʊbɔɪ]
• to solve – [sɒlv || sɑːlv]
• (a) contribution – [ˌkɒntrɪˈbjuːʃn || ˌkɑːntrɪˈbjuːʃn]
• significant – [sɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt]
• a guitar – [ɡɪˈtɑː(r) || ɡɪˈtɑːr]
• (a) success – [səkˈses]