1 My friend called me at 11 o'clock
last night, just as I went to bed.
2 I had a terrible headache all
day - I took three headache
tablets, but it won't go away.
3 When I looked out of my window this morning, everything was white because it snowed all night.
4 I waited to speak to the professor for over two hours, but she still hasn't arrived.
5 I find university life difficult. I studied here for nine months, but I still haven’t made any close friends.
6 I couldn't open the door because I forgot to bring my key.
7 That dog is driving me mad. It barked all morning!
Answer:
B. Does anyone have the time?
Explanation:
According to the subject-verb agreement, the subject and the verb must agree in number. The word <em>anyone</em>, like words <em>everyone, someone, no one, everybody, somebody, anybody, nobody, each, each one, either </em>and <em>neither</em> requires a singular verb: <em>Does anyone...</em>
That's why options A and C are incorrect. Instead of the singular form <em>does</em>, we have the form <em>do</em>, which agrees with a plural subject (e.g <em>Do they have the time?</em>)
Alifa Rifaat's short story "Another Evening at the Club" paints a clear picture of the powerless, inferior role of women in Egyptian society: the main character Samia is trapped in an arranged marriage in which she is repeatedly forced into betraying her own values and beliefs.
For example, when Bey, her husband, says to Samia "Tell people you're from the well-known Barakat family and that your father was a judge," she is obliged to lie about her own family's social status, in spite of how she was raised to be an honest person, just for the sake of making Bey look more important in the public eye.
In the end, Bey forces Samia into the ultimate act of dishonesty: protecting a lie that is causing their servant to be tortured, only to avoid his husband's embarrassment, when he says "By now the whole town knows the servant stole the ring—or would you like me to tell everyone: 'Look,folks, the fact is that the wife got a bit tiddly on a couple of sips of beer and the ring took off on its own and hid itself behind the dressing-table."
