Cumulative Grammar Review: Modules 6-10

A quick tour back through participle clauses, purpose/reason/result, cleft sentences, essay language, and hedging.

Notice

  • Feeling exhausted, she went straight to bed. (participle clause)
  • I left early so that I wouldn’t miss the train. (purpose)
  • It was Maria who solved the problem. (cleft sentence)
  • On the other hand, a drawback is the cost. (essay discourse marker)
  • The plan appears to be working. (hedging)

Rule

This review lesson revisits the five areas from Modules 6–10: participle/reduced relative clauses (Module 6), purpose/reason/result (Module 7), cleft sentences (Module 8), advantages/disadvantages essay language (Module 9), and softening/hedging (Module 10).

Practice

  1. Reduce: ‘The man who is standing by the door is my uncle.’
    Answer: The man standing by the door is my uncle.
  2. Complete: ‘It was _____ hot that we stayed inside.’ (so)
    Answer: so
  3. Rewrite as an it-cleft, emphasising ‘the rain’: ‘The rain ruined the picnic.’
    Answer: It was the rain that ruined the picnic.
  4. Soften: ‘The plan will fail.’ (appear to)
    Answer: The plan doesn’t appear to be working. / The plan appears likely to fail.

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Review Modules 6–10 with a mixed practice set.

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