7) leadership
8) officialdom
9) partnership
10) hardship
11) boredom
12) workmanship
1) the point
2) points
3) There is no point in
4) What's the point of
5) The point
6) a point
1) I didn't leave college because I was tired of learning.
2) We didn't set up the corporation merely because we wanted to make profits.
3) John didn't marry Alice because she was rich, or because she was pretty.
4) He didn't join the Confederate army because he stood for slavery.
5) The police didn't arrest him because he had really committed any crime, or because he was an escaped prisoner.
1) We all left the meeting convinced that the project was feasible.
2) Peter got home tired out from the three-month-long journey to the Antarctic.
3) They went hunting for hours, but they returned empty-handed.
4) He entered the office still annoyed by the way she had spoken to him.
1) himself in the ward of a hospital
2) themselves surrounded by enemy forces
3) themselves reading it with fresh eyes
4) himself tailed by a man in black
5) myself doubting my own judgment
6) ourselves in a large valley
1) analysis
2) professions