![]() ![]() Usage of ‘too’ with 'to' is explained in the following examples: The correct sentence: 'When the crowd collected round him he seemed confused, but at the demand of the tall lad who had pushed his way up to him, he began in a rather too tremulous voice to read the sheet from the beginning.' Therefore, 'fairly' should be replaced with 'rather'. For example: A rather difficult question. It is mainly used with a negative and undesirable adjective. It is used when we are expressing slight criticism, disappointment, or surprise. It is used with a pleasant and positive degree of an adjective. ![]() The error lies in the sentence because of the wrong usage of 'fairly'. I have to be there when he comes, because there's some men after him. I think he'll be there between nine-thirty and ten. You have nothing and we going to bust your balls.' 'Little muchacho, what you got for money, huh? How much of the good old dinero? You have something and we going to let you go. He reached out a hand, gripped the bristles of Bobby's crewcut, and pulled hard enough to make tears well up in Bobby's eyes. 'Little boy,' the fourth guy almost sang. 'You got any money, t��o?' asked the third guy. It was like being surrounded by Harry and his friends, only worse. The second guy grabbed him again, not so gently this time. 'You stupid to be down here alone and you fuckin loco to be down here at night alone.'īobby pulled free, but the fourth guy pushed him back at the second. 'What you doing down here, amigo?' he asked, gripping Bobby's shoulder with the tattooed hand. Make him pay his way across Diablo turf.' 'We just gonna shake this little guy out a little. 'Hey, Dee,' said the boy who had pulled Bobby's hair. He couldn't hear their mind-voices, but did he need to? They were probably going to beat him up and steal his money. Bobby could smell their spicy aftershaves, their hair tonics, his own fear. He realized with a sinking heart that he had wandered into four members of some gang. Something seemed familiar about the pitchfork, but Bobby had no time to think about that. They were also wearing blue silk jackets with the word DIABLOS written on the back. Black boots with pointed toes poked out from beneath their pants cuffs. They were Puerto Ricans, he thought, and all wearing sharp-creased slacks. 'Where you goin, t��o? M��o?'īobby looked up and saw four young guys, what his mom would have called corner boys, standing in front of a place called BODEGA. He made just a single step before one of the others grabbed him. He pulled back from the hands holding his shoulders and started around the guy. Hands grabbed Bobby's shoulders and held him. 'Hey, cabr��n' the guy said-laughing, but not in a nice way. He walks kinda hunched over, like Boris Karloff - you know, the guy in the scary movies?' 'I have to find the guy I was with yesterday. 'He look like a pansy uptown boy to me,' said the one who had called Bobby cabr��n and putino. This time the winkle had lasted longer, but it was going now, all right. His ability was fading again, as it had on the day Mrs Gerber took them to Savin Rock shortly after they left McQuown's stand at the end of the midway, it had been gone. Make the bad boys hang around Mallory's Saloon look like good boys.'īobby tried to look into the newcomer's mind and saw only dim shapes. You don't want to mess with boys like that, chico. 'The jefes in the long yellow coats,' Dee breathed. He was listening so hard that he walked into a guy without even seeing him. Bobby didn't think he was anywhere close yet, but he kept listening for him. Eventually he'd call another cab and come to collect his money. Maybe after the library closed he'd get a bite to eat, kill a little more time that way. If he had been Ted, he would have gone someplace like the Bridgeport Public Library where he could hang around without being noticed. ![]() 'You want one from me, Moso?'Īs he went, he tried to tune his mind outward and pick up some sense of Ted, but there was nothing. 'He don't need no lesson from you,' Dee said. ![]()
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