English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

flowed across the square all day long.
As soon as the school doors opened, children 
spilled out into the playground.
People 
streamed into the lecture hall and soon there was standing room only.
People have been 
pouring into the exhibition all day.
A 
trickle of people appeared outside and by midday a crowd had gathered.
We 
meandered round the town, window shopping to our hearts’ content.
Refugees have been 
flooding across the border since the start of the war.
Taking steps
When you walk you 
take (foot)steps. Here are some adjectives often used with taking (a) step(s) in 
a metaphorical context:
backward big critical decisive first giant
major significant
unprecedented 
[never having happened before]
Common
 
mistakes
When talking metaphorically, people take 
backward/decisive,
etc. 
steps
(NOT footsteps).
A
B
C
D

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Exercises
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English Vocabulary in Use Advanced
The walking verb in each of these sentences is incorrect. Which verb would be a better 
choice for each sentence? Look at A to help you.
1 The old man strutted wearily homeward, his shoulders hunched in the rain.
2 The mother trudged across the bedroom, doing her best not to wake the baby.
3 Look at all those baby rabbits stamping across the field!
4 Ever since he had an accident last year, he has stamped a bit.
5 The drunken men strode unsteadily out of the pub at closing time.
6 Please try not to stumble on the daisies – they look so pretty in the grass.
7 The small dog tramped after the postman and caught his trouser leg in his teeth.
8 The sea was so rough that even the sailors were tiptoeing around the decks.