GRAMMAR REVIEW: NOUN, ADJECTIVE, AND ADVERB CLAUSES (4) BUILDING SUPPORTING SKILLS CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST

 

CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST BUILDING SUPPORTING SKILLS GRAMMAR REVIEW: NOUN, ADJECTIVE, AND ADVERB CLAUSES (4)

 

Exercises G10-G14 Use Exercises G10-G14 to build your skills in identifying and analysing complex sentences, clauses, and phrases. EXERCISE G10 Analyzing complex sentences with noun clauses Analyze the sentences below. Follow these steps: 1 That rent-control laws may inhibit landlords from repairing properties is unfortunate but true. 2 Studies of newborn infants show that some perceptual processes, such as depth perception, may be inherited. 3 How glass is blown in a cylinder was demonstrated at the Stuart Crystal Factory. 4 One can easily understand why fast-food restaurants are so popular.   EXERCISE G11 Analyzing complex sentences with adjective clauses Analyze the sentences below. Follow these steps: 1 A species of tomato that is adapted to harsh climatic conditions has been developed. 2 The date on which Romulus founded Rome is generally considered to be 753 BCE. 3 In the Colosseum in Ancient Rome, cranes lifted cages to a level where the animals could enter the arena up a ramp. 4 The common hedgehog, which has outlived the mammoth and the saber-toothed tiger, is now threatened by automobile traffic.   EXERCISE G12 Identifying adjective phrases Check (√) the sentences that have adjective phrases, and underlined the phrases. 1 __________ Helen Keller became a role model for all people trying to overcome severe obstacles. 2 __________ The track leading into the ancient city of Petra follows a mile-long canyon that ends in front of an impressive temple carved out of the sandstone cliffs.   EXERCISE G13 Analyzing complex sentences with adverb clauses Analyze the sentences below. Follow these steps: 1 Hundreds of pandas starved to death when one of the species of bamboo on which they feed died out. 2 While the world population continues to grow, natural resources remain finite. 3 Because the ice crystals from which they form are usually hexagonal, snowflakes often have six sides.   EXERCISE G14 Identifying adverb phrases Check (√) the sentences that have adverb phrases, and underline the phrases. 1 __________ In winter, the Magdalen Islands are almost as isolated ad when Cartier first discovered them. 2 __________ Once covered by thick, solid ice during the last Ice Age, the land now is one of the greatest continuous areas of dense coniferous forests in the world knows as the boreal forest.

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