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8 Money Issues

Grammar What clauses

A. Discuss with a partner. Are these statements true for you?
1. What worries me most about getting into debt is how it might affect me in the future.
2. What I find most worrying about today’s consumer society is how easy it is to have multiple credit
cards.
3. What drives me crazy is how high school education doesn’t give students financial know-how to
support them in real life.

We can use clauses starting with What to emphasise how we feel about a certain issue. They are
also frequently used when we want to place emphasis on a certain action in a sentence.

B. Complete the text with the correct clause.

Free means no money

Although many people are already moving towards
a cashless society and using their card to pay for
everything from a cup of coffee to a new car, there are a. what he hopes now is
actually people around the world surviving without b. what he saw as a young boy was
money at all. And 1 just how normal c. what he’s learnt is
these people are.
d. what intrigues people most about
2 finding out how he has managed to
survive in the US, one of the most money-driven nations meeting Daniel Suelo is
in the world, for almost 20 years without a single cent. e. what many people don’t realise is
3 “How does he do it?” His diet is a f. what started Daniel’s move
mixture of wild vegetation and food he finds in bins – towards living moneyless
this may sound disgusting, but 4 just g. what surprises many
how much food supermarkets throw out at the end of people is
each day. By waiting around at closing time, it’s easy to h. what you may well be asking
get good quality food which might just be past its sell- yourself is
by date that day.
5 was a combination of his religious
upbringing and later understanding of just how many
religions taught believers to give up their possessions,
along with the love of nature he developed as a child.
6 how nature survived as a perfectly
balanced, harmonious entity with no need for money.
So, should other people follow Daniel to a life without
money? 7 that living without money
takes us back to our truest nature: that of giving and
receiving freely. 8 that more people will
hear his message and find the determination to try
it themselves.

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