SKILL 5- 10

SKILL 5 COORDINATE CONNECTORS
EXERCISE 5 : Each of the following contains more than one clause. Underline the subject once and bold the verbs twice. Italic the connectors. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

C 1. The lawn needs water everyday, or it will turn brown.
I 2. The book was not long, but it difficult to read.
I 3. It was raining, so decited not to go camping.
C 4. The material has been cut, and the pieces have been sewn together.
I 5. The patient took all the medicine, he did neot feel much better.
C 6. The bill must be paid immediately, or the electricity will turned off.
C 7. The furnace broke so the house got quite cold.
C 8. The dress did not cost too much, but the quality it seemed excellent.
C 9. The leaves kept failing off the tress, and the boys kept raking them up, but he yard was still covered.
C 10 The postman has already delivered the mail, so the letter is not going to arrive today, it probably will arrive tomorrow.

SKILL 6 ADVERB CLAUSE CONNECTORS
EXERCISE 6 : Each of the following contains more than one clause. Underline the subject once and bold the verbs twice. Italic the connectors. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

C 1. After the palne circled the airport, it landed on the main runway.
I 2. The registration process took many hours since the lines so long.
I 3. This type of medicine can be helpful, it can also have some bad side effects.
C 4. The waves were amazingly hight when the storm hit the coastal town.
I 5. We need to get a new car whether is on sale or not.
C 6. Just as the bread came out of the oven, while a wonderfull aroma filled the new house.
I 8. Althought the area is a desert many planyts bloom there in the springtime.
C 9. The drivers on the freeway drove slowly and carefully while the rain was falling heavily because they did not want to have an accident.
I 10. If you plan carefully before you take a trip, will have a much better time because the small details will not cause problems.


EXERCISE (Skill 5 - 6 : Each of the following contains more than one clause. Underline the subject once and bold the verbs twice. Italic the connectors. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

C 1. The lawyer presented a strong case, but the client still found guilty.
C 2. After the children read some stories before they went to bed.
I 3. The report needed to be completed, the workers stayed late every night for a week.
C 4. If you do not turn on the lights, you will trip in the dark.
C 5. A thick fog came rolling in, so planes unable to land.
C 6. All of the shoes are on sale until the current stock is gone.
C 7. The ship leaving the dock even though some passengers were not on board.
C 8. The outline must be turned in to the teacher a week before the paper is due, and must approve it.
I 9. Because the food was cold when it was served the dinners sent it back to the kitchen.
C 10. You should slow down while you are driving on the poloce will pull your car over.


TOEFL EXERCISE (Skill 5-6) : Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
1. A spacecraft is freed from friction after is launched into space.
2. Lobster blending with their surrounding, or they hide in crevices for protection.
3. The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint, the elbow is a simple hinge joint.
4. a car has several sections with moving parts, good lubrication of those parts is essential.
5. Bears cannot see well because they have small eyes.
6. When a land bridge existed at the Isthmus of Panama, so animals werw able to migrate between North and South America.
7. The Empire State Building is mostly made of granite, it also contains some human-maade materials.
8. Pressure differences make the eardrum vibrate as sound waves enter.
9. An optical microscope magnifies as musvh as 2,000 times, but an electron microscope can magnify as much as a million times.
10. If scientific estimates are accurate, the Canon Diablo meteorite colliding with the Earth about 20,000 years ago.


TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skill 1-6) : Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
1. The economic activity of the Pueblo Indians centered on intensive agriculture.
2. In popular terminology, any long snowstorm with a large amount of wind Is called a blizzard.
3. Nuclear power can be produced by fusion, it can also produced bay fusion.
4. If the temperature is high, igneous rocks may be changed into gneisses.
5. In 1905, henry Flaigler announced hiis plants to extend his Florida East Coast Railway out across the sea to Key West.
6. The sound is coming from a vibrating object will be high or low depending on the number of vibrations.
7. During the kate 1880s, urban streercars were electrified through used large motors.
8. Although Biscayne National Park encompasess almost 274 square miles, but 96 percent of the park is under water.
9. Legislation was passed in 1916 and 1917 gave the Wlison administration authority to intervence in the national economy if it proved necessary.
10. Because the family of birds set up housekeeping in Joel Chandler Harris’s mailbox when the birds were in need of a place to stay, so the home was named the Wren’s Nest.

SKILL 7 NOUN CLAUSE CONNECTORS
EXERCISE 7: Each of the following contains more than one clause. Underline the subject once and bold the verbs twice. Italic the connectors. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

C 1. It is unfortunate that the meal is not ready yet.
I 2. She told me when should pick her up.
I 3. The instructor explained where was the computer lab located.
C 4. We could not believe what he did to us.
C 5. Do you want to know if it going to rain tomorrow ?
C 6. We never know whether we will get paid or not.
C 7. This evening you can decide what do you want to do.
I 8. The manager explained how wanted the work done.
C 9. The man showed whether the party would be held.
I 10. Can you tell me why was the mail not delivered today ?


SKILL 8 NOUN CLAUSE CONNECTOR/SUBJECT
EXERCISE 8 : Each of the following contains more than one clause. Underline the subject once and bold the verbs twice. Italic the connectors. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

I 1. The teacher heard who answered the question.
C 2. I do not understand what it went wrong.
I 3. Of the three movies, I can’t decide which is the best.
I 4. She did not remember who in her class.
I 5. No one is sure what did it happen in front of the building.
I 6. We found out which was her favorite type of candy.
I 7. Do you know what caused the plants to die ?
C 8. I am not sure which it is the most important course in the program ?
I 9. We thought about who would be the best vice president.
I 10. She saw what in the box in the closet.


EXERCISE ( Skill 7-8 ) : Each of the following contains more than one clause. Underline the subject once and bold the verbs twice. Italic the connectors. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).
I 1. It doubtful whether he will pass the test or not.
I 2. The group discussed who he should receive the prize.
C 3. It is not certain why the class was cancelled.
I 4. I will do what does it need to be done.
C 5. We forgot when did the movies start.
C 6. I would like to ask if you could comes over for dinner this weekend.
C 7. The children knew which the best game to play.
C 8. The advisor informed her that needed to add another class.
C 9. He saw who took the money.
C 10. It is unclear how the window got broken.


TOEFL EXERCISE (Skill 7-8) : Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
1. Today the true sttory of happened at Little Bignorn remains a mystery.
2. For more than a decade, the warnings of bird-watchers that certain species are becoming scarce.
3. Early in the eighteenth century, Halley accyrately predicted when the comet was of 1682 would return.
4. No single factor explains why the effects of aging vary so greatly among individuals.
5. Lack of clasrity about who will lead the party in the year will be removed at the party’s convention.
6. We do not sure whether the bow drill was first develop for woodworling or fire making.
7. minute Man National Historical Park is a moniment to where the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
8. Tests on the colors cars were conducted at the University of California to determine which the safest colors for cars.
9. The National Institute of Dental Research estimates for school children in fluoridated areas have about 25 percent less decay than children elsewwhere.
10. The process of photosynthesis explains how green plants are able to use the energy in sunlight to manufacture foods from the simple chemical in air and water.


TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skill 1-8) : Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
1. Air near the equator has a faster west – to – east motion than air farther from the equator.
2. About 4000 B.C.,humans discovered that metals could be obtained from special rocks called ores.
3. In the degradation of DNA quickly after an animal dies.
4. It improves aerodynamic design has contributed a major part in reducing resistance to motion.
5. The southern part of Florida is much warmer in the winter then the northern part, so more flocks of tourists.
6. The Moon’s gravity pulls water on the near side of the Earth toward the Moon, and this is what causes tides to occur.
7. Glaciers moving, they pick up fragments of rock which become frozen into the base of the ice.
8. The tape measure first evolved from the chains are measuring used by the Egyptians.
9. A typical Atlantic hurricane starts as a low pressure system near coast to Africa.
10. It is not clear whether the subdivisions of the neocortex are individual units.





SKILL 9 ADJECTIVE CLAUSE CONNECTORS
EXERCISE 9 : Each of the following contains more than one clause. Underline the subject once and bold the verbs twice. Italic the connectors. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).
C 1. I did not believe the story that he told me.
I 2. Ms.Brown, whom did you recommend for the job, will start work tommorow.
I 3. The lecture notes which lent me were not clearly written.
C 4. Sally has an oppointment with the hairdresser whom you recommended.
I 5. The phone number that you give me.
I 6. She is able to solve all the problems which did she cause.
C 7. The day that she spent on the beach left her sunburned.
I 8. Next week I am going to visit my cousins, whom have not seen in several years.
C 9. Did you forget the promise whom you made?
C 10. The teacher whom the students like the most is their history teacher.


SKILL 10 ADJECTIVE CLAUSE CONNECTORS/SUBJECTS
EXERCISE 9 : Each of the following contains more than one clause. Underline the subject once and bold the verbs twice. Italic the connectors. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

C 1. The children that were vaccinated did not get sick.
I 2. I did not vote for the politician who he just wont the election.
C 3. The dog that barking belongs to my neighbor.
I 4. I took two of the blue pills, which were very effective.
I 5. We rented an apartment from the landlord who does he own the buildings on Maple Street.
I 6. She forgot to attend the meeting which it began at 11:00.
C 7. Any student who does not turn in the paper by Friday will fail the class.
C 8. The people which came in late had to sit at the back.
C 9. The cources that satisfy the graduation requirements they are dificult.
I 10. After dinner she went to visit her parrents, who were living down the street.



EXERCISE (Skill 9-10) : Each of the following contains more than one clause. Underline the subject once and bold the verbs twice. Italic the connectors. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

I 1. My sisters prefer to eat food that have cooked themselves.
C 2. The boat that hit the underwriter rock sank.
C 3. The car which he was driving could not posibly be his.
I 4. The children built a house in the tree that in the backyard.
C 5. The cost of the strip which we wanted to take.
C 6. The children are playing with the toys which their mother told them to put away.
C 7. The guest who were seated arround the dinner table.
C 8. The students have to read all the chapters which are on the test.
I 9. I really do not like the artists which you like.
C 10. The stones that they were set in the ring were quite valuable


TOEFL EXERCISE (Skill 9-10) : Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
1. Modern hummans, who first appeared about 600,000 years ago, they were called Homo sapiens.
2. The first writing has evidence of is on Mesopotamian clay tablets.
3. Succulents which are drought-resistant plant which store water in fleshy tissue.
4. Benjamin Kabelsky, whom most people know as jack benny, was a famous comedian in vaudeville and on radio and television.
5. Dinosaurs are known that hunted other animals tended to have very narrow, sharp, curved claws.
6. The first eyeglasses had convex lenses for the aged who becoming far-sighted.
7. Chimney rock, it stands 500 feet above the North Platte River, has eroded considerablyin the last two centuries.
8. The change in hormones is that accompany recurring bouts of severe depression reduce bone density.
9. Willa Cathher is an author whom readers praise for her evocative and memorable vision off frontier prairie life.
10. Mars’s tiny moon Phobos is a small mountain of rock that was probably captured from the asteroid belt by Mars’s gravitational pull.


TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skill 1-10) : Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
1. Annapolis is famous as the home the United State Naval Academy.
2. Some scientists think that Pluto does not seem be a planet but a moon of Neptune.
3. With the appearance was of sophisticated oil lamps, elaborate tools were made to cut the wicks.
4. Fort Union was the site of what being the principal-fur-trading post on the upper Missouri River.
5. Since the face of the movie commercial risk, it has to appeal to a large audience to justify its costs.
6. A current of water known as the Gulf Stream comes up from the Gulf of Mexico, and then crosses it the North Atlantic toward Europe.
7. Systems using the two synbols 0 and 1 are called binary number system.
8. Genes, they are the blueprints for cell construction, exist in tightly organized packages called chromosomes.
9. The Earth’s atmosphere consist of gases hold in place arround the Earth by the gravitational pull of the planet.
10. Oscar Hannerstein II collaborated with a number of composers including Jerome Kern, whom he joined in writing the musical Show Boat.