SAT R&W W64: Pronouns and Agreement — Mixed Practice

Each of the four boatyards still working on the river builds to own set of moulds, so a hull laid down in one yard cannot be finished in another. The moulds are cut from plywood and kept in a loft above the shed, and none has ever been measured or drawn.

A cast-iron cooking range weighs a third of a tonne, and the weight rather than the heat that eventually cracks the floor beneath it. Most surviving ranges have been moved at least once, and the crack usually shows in the room below before anyone notices it upstairs.

The chapel, roof was rebuilt in oak after the fire of 1908, is the only building on the street to have kept its original floor. The stone flags were laid over sand and have moved very little in three hundred years.

The town replaced its gas lamps with electric ones in 1912 and sold the old lamp posts for scrap, keeping four as a curiosity in the yard behind the town hall. are the only ones left of about six hundred, and two of them now stand outside the museum.

The company of surveyors kept a single set of standard measuring chains in a locked case and lent only to members who had finished an apprenticeship. Two chains went missing in the 1840s and were replaced by copies that were never checked against the originals.

The apprentice the guild fined for casting a bell out of tune in 1783 went on to run the largest foundry in the county. His own bells were tested three times before they left the yard, and none was ever returned.