effective sentence exercises

I The following sentences are not unified or coherent. Try to improve them: 1. She began to speak very fast at the meeting at ten o’clock. 2. Bernard Shaw was one of the best-known playwrights.

3. The houses were mere shanties, and rags were stuffed in the cracks and holes. 4. I read the novel on the train, which did not interest me at all.

5. A well-dressed man admitted us to the house, and we later learned that he was a thief. 6. I lost some important documents and found them three days later. The police had helped me.

7. We entered the shop, and a saleswoman greeted us, and all kinds of shoes were on the shelves, and the

prices were quite reasonable, and a lot of customers were buying them. 8. Tell Helen, if she is at home, I will come to see her. 9. Listening attentively, a faulty sound was heard. 10. On entering the room, no one was seen.

11. Fred is energetic, capable, and a man you can rely on.

12. The children promised to be careful and that they would return home early 13. Dickens’s novels offer no solution to the social injustices he exposes in them. 14. My watch is either fast or yours is slow.

15. Glancing out of the window, a beautiful view attracted my attention. 16. He nearly finished reading ten books during the vacation.

17. If interested in painting, a course can be taken at the evening school. 18. She said that she would come if she could, but not to wait for her. 19. To tell my friend the good news the letter was posted at once. 20. I will go to the lecture, for I like his poems.

II Revise the following sentences. Try to make them concise. 1. In the year 1840 the Opium War broke out.

2. There are more books in their library than in our library. 3. He returned back home after he graduated from college. 4. We planned to meet just before sunrise very early in the morning. 5. The cause of the flood was due to the heavy rain in late spring. 6. He was asked to repeat the sentence again. 7. I play badminton equally as well as my brother.

8. It seemed to his friends that his attitude was of a puzzling nature. 9. These watermelons are large in size and sweet in taste. 10. He did not tell the truth with an honest attitude.

11. There are a number of students who want to join the drama club. 12. He was kind enough to let me share the same umbrella with him.

13. Zhao was the person who was elected the representative of the class by the whole class.

14. At the present time I am taking the course of World History and in addition a course in geography too. 15. The plane circled around the airport for about ten minutes or so and then disappeared and could no longer

be seen.

16. What I am trying to say is that in my opinion he has not done his work very well and it needs improving. 17. I would like you to consider the question of whether or not you will let our journal publish your recent

article on women scientists in China.

18. Owing to the fact that he had missed many lectures, he was aware that it would be possible for him to fail

the exam.

19. You must first work out an outline for your paper, and then after you have done that, you need to collect all

kinds of material to support your point of view.

20. In that country violent death has become a commonplace thing, a thing that occurs every day. 21. He is not only a good pianist, but also a good singer as well. 22. This pretty actress keeps appearing in TV serials repeatedly.

23. As a rule, students are usually not allowed to take books out of this reading-room.

24. According to the speaker, it is obvious that the responsibility system has helped to increase production and

he has no doubt about it.

25. One reason why people are well informed in this country is because of the fact that there are many

newspapers which can easily be bought or subscribed to.

26. Statistics show that in the decade from 1980 to 1990 enrollments at this school doubled: in 1990 there

were twice as many students as in 1980.

27. There are so many inexperienced unskilled workers without training in a particular job that production of

the factory has been affected.

28. There are about 50 patients or so in this ward, among whom many are being given acupuncture treatment. 29. His name is called James Williams.

30. Whatever he does, he works seriously with great care, and does his best so as to do it well. III Rewrite the following sentences, emphasizing the main idea in each. 1. Huang, who is over two metres tall, is the tallest man of the team.

2. Social position, reputation, even life itself, and friends, were no longer interesting to him after he went

bankrupt.

3. He decided to take the job, and it was something unexpected.

4. China will not be the first to use nuclear weapons under any circumstances. 5. Yang alone can do the work, and there are twenty students in the class.

6. China has changed a great deal as a result of reform and the open policy during the past 14 years. 7. She was the first Chinese woman who had won a gold medal for figure skating in an international contest,

according to newspaper reports.

8. An attempt was made by Robert to do all the things that the sailor members of the crew usually did while

serving as a cabin boy on the ship.

9. Mrs. Jones, the famous writer, was among his neighbours.

10. The students were patiently helped by their teachers and good progress was made by them. 11. She often helps many comrades in her class to improve their pronunciation.

12. There are few mistakes in the language of the composition, but it is not very good, because the content is

not interesting.

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