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Answers to Practice Exercises: Loan and Lone
(a) "Willie licked at his lower lip, his tongue darting on either side of his lone tooth."
(Joy Dettman, "The House Raising." Diamonds in the Mud and Other Stories. Pan Macmillan, 2006)

(b) "She and Michael had bought their house when they were first married, with the help of a loan from his parents."
(Lea Wait, Shadows on the Ivy. Scribner, 2004)
 
 
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