You have witnessed a murder at a large estate and have escaped to the guard house located next to the entrance of the driveway.

From here, you have called 911 and have some specific information to give to the police. Because you are apparently a bit rattled, the police are redundant in their questions.

There is very little time left before the murderer finishes cutting the phone lines at the main house and comes to find you.

Answer each of the questions as quickly as you can using as few words as possible while giving the maximum amount of information for each question. You need to be done quickly, because you need to get out of there!

What you know:

The professor killed Mr. Body quite viciously in the
dimly lit library with a very heavy candlestick.

Type your answers in the text boxes.
Who killed Mr. Body?
Who did the professor kill?
What did the professor do?
In what way did the professor kill Mr. Body?
How viciously did he kill him?
Where did the professor kill Mr. Body?
What room did the professor kill Mr. Body in?
What was the library like?
How well lit was the library?
How did the professor kill Mr. Body?
What did the professor kill him with?
What was the candlestick like?
How heavy was the candlestick?
 

Did you notice that you could ask questions that produced answers of varying lengths?
Very few, if any should have been one-word answers.

Did you notice that those answers seemed to group words in natural ways?
Natural groupings of words can be thought of as phrases.

Because phrasing is so natural to a native speaker, it helps to go through an exercise like the above to focus on these structures.
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