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Sentence Structure
1. Read the paragraph below. Then, read the instructions that follow and combine
the given sentences into either simple, compound or complex sentences.
1For many working adults, online education has greatly enhanced the
opportunity to take classes. 2Online education has also allowed many working adults
to complete their studies. 3Research indicates that although most online students
successfully complete their degree program, about forty percent of them fail in their
studies (Bates, 2010). 4These days most working adults pursue their studies online.
5It can be a major issue if students do not put in sufficient effort and time in
completing their studies. 6In most cases, students can access their course at
anytime from anywhere. 7This means that parents, working students and
professionals on the move have the option of attending classes no matter how hectic
their work schedule is. 8Students only need a computer and Internet access to take
online classes. 9On the other hand, there can also be drawbacks for students
pursuing online education. 10Students may not be able to experience a conducive
learning environment. 11They have limited opportunities to learn from the
experiences and backgrounds of peers in class. 12In normal classrooms, students
can share ideas and listen to peers. 13They can also collaborate face-to-face on
projects and assignments. 14Normal classrooms encourage peer participation.
15Online classrooms have virtual discussion forums with no face-to-face interaction.
16New ways of thinking and broader cultural diversity awareness is difficult to
achieve. 17This is caused by the lack of students deeply engaging in conversations
with other students.
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a. Combine sentence 1 and sentence 2 to form a simple sentence with one subject
and two verbs.
Sentence 1: For many working adults, online education has greatly enhanced the
opportunity to take classes.
Sentence 2: Online education has also allowed many working adults to complete
their studies.
For many working adults, online education has greatly enhanced the opportunity to
take classes and allowed them to complete their studies.
Sentence 4: These days most working adults pursue their studies online.
Sentence 5: It can be a major issue if students do not put in sufficient effort and
time in completing their studies.
These days most working adults pursue their studies online. However, it can be a
major issue if students do not put in sufficient effort and time in completing their
studies.
Sentence 12: In normal classrooms, students can share ideas and listen to peers.
Sentence 13: They can also collaborate face-to-face on projects and assignments.
In normal classrooms, students can share ideas, listen to peers and collaborate face-
to-face on projects and assignments.
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Sentence 16: New ways of thinking and broader cultural diversity awareness is
difficult to achieve.
Sentence 17: This is caused by the lack of students deeply engaging in
conversations with other students.
New ways of thinking and broader cultural diversity awareness is difficult to achieve
because the lack of students deeply engaging in conversations with other students.
Sentence Errors
2. Identify five errors on subject-verb agreement in the following text. Write the
sentence number which contains the error. Correct the sentences in the space
provided.
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6Hardin and Hardin (2004) conducted several studies using male wheelchair
basketball players. 7In these studies, the researchers concluded that the majority of
the athletes are desensitized to the way that the media ignores athletes with
disabilities. 8According to these studies, all the athletes enjoys mainstream media as
well as disability media. 9They use the mainstream media to gain socialisation with
others, learn more about able-bodied sports and find able-bodied sports role models
(Hardin & Hardin, 2003; Hardin & Hardin, 2004). 10They also like the disability media
such as Sports n' Spokes because it allow them to see other athletes with disabilities
participating in a wide variety of sport. 11Many athletes with disabilities would like to
see media coverage focus on the influential elements of their sport, but they does
not blame this entirely on the media. 12They just hope one day their athletic
accomplishments will be accepted as legitimate by the wider culture.
a. Sentence no: 2
b. Sentence no: 4
DePauw (1997) claims that people with disabilities continue to be excluded from
sport because they fail to meet the societal norm of physicality.
c. Sentence no: 8
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d. Sentence no:10
e. Sentence no: 11
i. run-on
ii. fragment
iii. comma splice
iv. non-parallel structure
6Firstly, the most common cause of depression is genetics. 7People who are
born with low levels of serotonin and dopamine in their brains cannot experience
pleasure in the same way that people with both balanced chemicals can, these
people do not experience happiness from normal happy events. 8For example, a
clinically depressed student with chemical imbalances in the brain might derive less
satisfaction from earning an A for a subject than a student with balanced chemicals.
9Therefore, people with low levels of serotonin and dopamine require extreme
circumstances to experience the same level of happiness that people with balanced
chemicals would experience from a lesser event.
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amounts of these substances in the bloodstream can alter the brain’s normal
chemical balance. 13People who use these chemical substances may experience
short-term or long term depression due to the chemical changes in their brains for
example, alcoholics can develop depression because of the constant altering of the
levels of dopamine in their brain. 14Hence, the more alcohol a person consumes, the
risk of getting depression is likely to increase (Joseph & David, 2011).
relationships and traumatic events are two common stimuli in depression (Mathews,
Ridgeway & Williamson, 1996). 17Failed relationships such as a divorce or a falling
out between family members can leave a person in a state of depression. 18In
Write the sentence numbers which contain the stated errors. Correct the sentences
in the space provided.
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Tenses
4. Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the verb given in the brackets.
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while women are perceived as the weaker half of society and are expected to be
gentle. Courtis and Lockeretz (1971) indicated that over the years, women had been
portrayed as domestic providers who did not make significant decisions as they
(d) being(be) dependant on men. For example, car manufacturers use women in
skimpy clothing in their advertisements to advertise their cars instead of focusing on
the features of those cars. These are some of the roles that media has given to
women.
Another area that the advertising media influences society is in its values. The
ability of the mass media to influence social ethics remains one of the most worrying
influences as some of the values are decadent (Warhol, 1990). The lifestyles that the
media (e) portrays(portray) are glamorised and beyond the reach of ordinary people.
This has become a cause for concern when normal individuals in society try to adopt
these values and imitate the lifestyles of the rich. Thus, careful consideration should
be given before something is advertised in the media as millions of individuals would
be influenced by it.
Word forms
5. Improve the paragraph below with the correct word form of the words in bold.
a. situational
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b. suffer
c. disorder
d. profusely
e. population