Imagine you are reporting what Stephen Fry said in an interview a year ago. Use the prompts to reproduce his words. Make all the necessary changes.
1. “It is a cause of some upset that more Anglophones don’t enjoy language.”
He said that ___________________________________________________________________________.
2. “None of these are of importance.”
He also insisted that _____________________________________________________________________.
3. “There have been few greater and more complete lords of language in the past thousand years.”
Then, he argued that ____________________________________________________________________.
4. “It’s ugly in the way Picasso, Stravinsky and Eliot were once thought ugly.”
He also added that ______________________________________________________________________.
5. “Pedants will also claim that their fight is only for clarity.”
He ended by declaring that _______________________________________________________________.