Exercises Compound Sentence Combine the following pairs of sentences making each pair a compound sentence. Use appropriate conjunction.
1. The current fight of deadly avian flu has caused many people to stop consuming chicken. As a result, many chicken farmers and vendors suffer a great deal as they cannot sell their chicken. 2. Terrorism, recently being the most frequently discussed issue in TV talk shows, has a great effect on development of tourism. Many countries, including Indonesia, simply cannot do much to prevent it from happening. 3. University students performing voluntary work in Aceh and North Sumatra during the post-tsunami period had many problems. This was because they had not been trained to cope with the problems before leaving for Aceh and North Sumatra. 4. Many low-income families can no longer provide nutritious foods for their children due to increasing perods of foods. In addition, they cannot afford the increasing fares of public transportation as a result of the fuel prices hike. 5. Students know the existing rules on copy right. Still, they make copies of the books as they cannot affors to but the original books. Adverbial Clause Combine the following pairs of sentences makin one of the sentences an adverbial clause
1. The government has imposed a 40percent tariff on imports of raw materials. This is why Indonesian cable manufacturers are facing difficult times. 2. The company needed more capital to finance the new toll-road project. For this purpose, the company has issued bonds amounting to Rp. 1 billion. bi llion. 3. Private investors in real estate are competing to build new resort areas. This is because tourism in the Asia-Pasific region has been growing rapidly. 4. The company has just installed facsimile machines for its offices. Up to this time, it used courier services to send documents to its branches all over the country. 5. A women’s magazine added twenty colored pages for last week’s edition. This is because it attracted a very big number of advertisers. Conditionals Explain what the foowing conditional sentences mean
1. If there had been no efforts to promote the education of married couples, fertility would not have effectively declined.
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2. If there were no common discrimination in the treatment of companies to women and men employees, a lot of potential women employees would have managerial positions. 3. If there is a comprehensive discrimination and a solid statistical system, the future estimation of demographic parameters in Indonesia will not only rely on census and survey data. 4. Had there not been enough doctors in that isolated area, the rate of mortality would have been extremely high. 5. If a mother could have chosen how many children she wanted to have, proper to the family’s economic condition, the family would have had trouble in raising their children.
6. If the government can curb the rate of inflation, investment and business operation will remain stable. 7. Had the competition among small domestic airlines not been so severe, they would not be offering airline tickets at such affordable prices now. 8. If SARS were not such a contagious and fatal disease, it wouldn’t create big panic around the globe. Make conditional sentences from the following situations
9. There is scarcity in our world; therefore, nations make great efforts to limit the increase in the number of their population. 10. Because the Indonesian government introduced family planning in 1956, Indonesia did not experience a population explosion. 11. Family planning programs are spread throughout the country. This is because community volunteers help actively launch these programs in all of the inner parts of the country. 12. In case people do not have to pay for sterilization services, the rate of sterilization users is high. 13. The Indonesian government has been successful in improving health and economy through various development programs. That is why, there has been a decline in the fertility and mortality rate. 14. There is no clear evidence that the $8 million villa in Geneva for the UN representative from Indonesia was bought from the tsunami aid funds, so the President does not order a thorough investigation. 15. Singapore’s tourist industry has lost its market share since the late 1990’s. Therefore, it has agreed to build new tourist resorts complete with casino. Adjective Clause Combine the following pairs of sentences makin the secong sentence of each pair an adjective clause. Provide the correct punctuations.
1. This country’s oil reserves will not be exhausted until the end of this century. Some of them yield 70 percent of the annual state income. 2. A number of forwarders have contracts with several government agencies.
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Their good services have reached European countries. 3. I spent my holidays in Syndey with an old native couple. One of their sons was my fellow- student back in the 1980’s. 4. In practise, decision-making is influenced by environmental factors. One of these factors is the cultural background of parties involved. 5. Not wanting customers to complain about its car-park, the company decided to buy a piece of land adjacent to the head office. The company would build a parking lot on that site. 6. Indonesia is accused of violating the agreement of free competition and trade liberalization by the US businessmen. Indonesia used to enjoy a great profit from them. 7. American companies operating in Japan are often unsuccessful. In this country service to customers is the main strategy in marketing. 8. Worker’s wage is an important component in Indonesia’s competitive advantage In some industries it is even lower than that of Malaysia. 9. TV commercials are considered the most efective form of advertising. Companies usually allocate a larger budget to them. 10. The Swiss watch industry is very optimistic about entring the potentially huge market in China. Its high quality products are particularly popular in the whole Asian region. 11. The development of Iran’s nuclear technology has caused a deep concern among Westren countries. Iran is determined to continue this development for the interest of human beings. 12. The supreme court seems to avoid solving many corruption cases. Some of these cases have caused the state to take a severe loss of billion of US dollars. 13. Managers of multinational companies assigned to operate subsidiaries in foreign countries cannot perform their tasks effectively. Many of their curriculum vitae do not show any foreign experiene. 14. The gold mining industry creates some serious enviromental problems. Some environmentalists accused it of depleting the country’s national resources.
15. The meeting of the company’s shareholders will be held next week. The Financial Director will address some important issue related business expansion in this meeting. Noun Clause Combine the following pairs of sentences makin the second sentence of each pair a noun clause.
1. This is necessary. The WHO should allocate more money for the research on SARS. 2. The Shell company has announced this. “We intend to raise the price of petrol to just over 65 rupiah a litre”
3. My brother’s company is having serious financial problem.
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I wish my brother (not expand) ____________ so rapidly. 4. The student asked me this question. “May I write my paper because I can’t use a computer?”
5. The senior researcher recommended this. You should write all the research findings before you can classify them. 6. The current global financial crisis begining in the USA has hit developing countries severly. People wish it (not cause a continuous increase in the prices of daily necessities) 7. This is important. Parents should introduce their children to a variety of foods served without additives and preservatives at an early age. 8. One of the health promotions reminds this to the public. “Don’t forget to use some soap to wash your hands before you eat anything”
9. People have been questioning this issue. “Are organic vegetables more nutritious than ordinary ones?”
10. The doctor ordered this to my mother. “You must avoid eating green vegetables to prevent the increase of the uric acid counts in your blood.”
11. The Vice President required this. “Government officers should not fly using business class.”
12. Many people at the airport who were caught carrying laptops with pirated software had to pay a very high fine. They wish (buy) ___________ the original software for their laptops. 13. Many people are not aware of this. Cheap imported products from China are usually of low quality. 14. The office security guard reported this to the police. “I found this suspicious looking box when I was checking the parking lot”
15. The Major of North Jakarta promised this. “I will safe your area from the establishment of plastic factory” Answers Compound Sentence Combine the following pairs of sentences making each pair a compound sentence. Use appropriate conjunction.
1. The current fight of deadly avian flu has caused many people to stop consuming chicken ; therefore, many chicken farmers and vendors suffer a great deal as they cannot sell
their chicken. 2. Terrorism, recently being the most frequently discussed issue in TV talk shows, has a great effect on development of tourism ; however, many countries, including Indonesia, simply cannot do much to prevent it from happening.
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3. University students performing voluntary work in Aceh and North Sumatra during the post-tsunami period had not been trained to cope with the problems before leaving for Aceh and North Sumatra ; consequently, they had many problems. 4. Many low-income families can no longer provide nutritious foods for their children due to increasing perods of foods ; moreover, they cannot afford the increasing fares of public transportation as a result of the fuel prices hike. 5. Students know the existing rules on copy right ; nevertheless, they make copies of the books as they cannot affors to but the original books. Adverbial Clause Combine the following pairs of sentences makin one of the sentences an adverbial clause
1. Indonesian cable manufacturers are facing difficult times as the government has imposed a 40% tariff on imports of raw materials. 2. In order that the company might finance the new toll-read project, it has issued bonds amounting to Rp. 1 billion. 3. Private investors in real estate are competing to build new resort areas because tourism in the Asia-Pasific region has been growing rapidly. 4. Before the company installed facsimile machines for its offices, it had used courier services to send documents to its branches all over the country. 5. A women’s magazine added twenty colored pages for last week’s edition since it attracted a very big number of advertisers. Conditionals Explain what the foowing conditional sentences mean
1. There were efforts to promote the education of married couples so fertility was effectively declined. 2. There was common discrimination in the treatment of companies to women and men employees so a lot of potential women employees didn’t have managerial positions.
3. There may be a comprehensive discrimination and a solid statistical system so the future estimation of demographic parameters in Indonesia will not only rely on census and survey data. 4. There were enough doctors in that isolated area so the rate of mortality was not extremely high. 5. A mother couldn’t choose how many children she wanted to have, so, proper t o the family’s economic condition, the family didn’t have trouble in raising their children.
6. Investment and business operation will remain stable in case the government curb the rate of inlation. 7. The competition among small domestic airlines was so severe so they offer airline tickets at such affordable prices now. 8. SARS create big panic around the globe because it is such a contagious and fatal disease.
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Make conditional sentences from the following situations
9. If there were no scarcity in our world, nations wouldn’t make great efforts to limit the increase in the number of their population. 10. If the Indonesian government hadn’t introduced family planning in 1956, Indonesia would have experienced a population explosion. 11. Family planning programs wouldn’t be sprea d throughout the country if community volunteers didn’t help actively launch these programs in all of the inner parts of the
country. 12. If people don’t have to pay for sterilization services, the rate of sterilization users will be high. If people have to pay for sterilization services, the rate of sterilization users will not be high. 13. If the Indonesian government weren’t successful in improving health and economy through various development programs, there wouldn’t be a decline in the fertility and
mortality rate. 14. If there were clear evidence that the $8 million villa in Geneva for the UN representative from Indonesia was bought from the tsunami aid funds, the President would be order a thorough investigation. 15. If Singapore’s tourist industry hadn’t lost its market share since the late 1990’s, it wouldn’t have agreed to build new tourist resorts complete with casino. Adjective Clause Combine the following pairs of sentences makin the secong sentence of each pair an adjective clause. Provide the correct punctuations.
1. This country’s oil reserves, some of which yield 70 percent of the annual state income, will not be exhausted until the end of this century. 2. A number of forwarders whose good services have reached European countries have contracts with several government agencies. 3. I spent my holidays in Syndey with an old native couple one of whose sons was my fellow-student back in the 1980’s. 4. In practise, decision-making is influenced by environmental factors, one of wh ich is the cultural background of parties involved. 5. Not wanting customers to complain about its car-park, the company which would build a parking lot on that site decided to buy a piece of land adjacent to the head office. 6. Indonesia, which used to enjoy a great profit from them, is accused of violating the agreement of free competition and trade liberalization by the US businessmen. 7. American companies operating in Japan, in which service to customers is the main strategy in marketing, are often unsuccessful. 8. Worker’s wage, which in some indusries is even lowen than that of Malaysia, is an important component in Indonesia’s competitive advantage.
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9. TV commercials, to which companies usually allocate a larger budget, are considered the most efective form of advertising. 10. The swiss watch industry, high quality products of which are particularly popular in the whole Asian region, is very optimistic about entring the potentially huge market in China. 11. The development of Iran’s nuclear technology, which Iran is determi ned to continue for the interest of human beings, has caused a deep concern among Westren countries. 12. The supreme court seems to avoid solving many corruption cases, some of which have caused the state to take a severe loss of billion of US dollars. 13. Managers of multinational companies assigned to operate subsidiaries in foreign countries, many of whose curriculum vitae do not show any foreign experience, cannot perform their tasks effectively. 14. The gold mining industry which some environmetalists accused of depleting the country’s national resources creates some serious enviromental problems.
15. The meeting of the company’s shareholders in which the Financial Director will address some important issue related business expansion will be held next week. Noun Clause Combine the following pairs of sentences makin the second sentence of each pair a noun clause.
1. This is necessary that The WHO allocate more money for the research on SARS. 2. The Shell company has announced that they intended to raise the price of petrol to just over 65 rupiah a litre. 3. Had not expanded 4. The student asked me if he might write his paper because he couldn’t use a computer 5. The senior researcher recommended that I write all the research findings before I classify them. 6. People wish it would not cause a continuois increase in the prices of daily necessities. 7. It is important that parents introduce their chlidren to a variety of foods served without additives and preservatives at an early age. 8. One of the health promotions reminds the public that they not forget to use some soap to wash your hands before you eat anything. 9. People have been questioning whether organic vegetables are more nutritious than ordinary ones. 10. The doctor ordered to my mother that she avoid eating green vegetables to prevent the increase of the uric acid counts in your blood. 11. The Vice President required that government officers not fly using business class. 12. They had bought 13. Many people are not aware that cheap imported products from China are usually of low quality.
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14. The office security guard reported to the police that he had found that suspicious looking box when he was checking the parking lot 15. The Major of North Jakarta promised us that he would safe our area from the establishment of plastic factory.
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