Grammer Parallel Structure With Comparisons When you make

Grammer

Parallel Structure With Comparisons When you make a comparison, you point out the similarities or differences between two things and those similarities or differences must be in parallel form. Parallel Structure With Comparisons (same structure) more…. . than -er……. . than less……than (same structure) as……as the same……as Similar………. to Examples: - To be rich is better than to be poor. - What is written is more easily understood than what is spoken.

Read the sentences carefully then write (C) for correct sentences and (I) for incorrect sentences. ( ) 1 - His research for thesis was more useful than hers. ( ) 2 - What you do today should be the same as did yesterday. ( ) 3 - Music in your country is quite similar to my country. ( ) 4 - How to buy a used car can be as difficult as buying a new car. ( ) 5 - What you do has more effect than what you say Key answer: 1 -C 2 - I 3 -I 4 -I 5 -C

Parallel Structure In good English, an attempt should be made to achieve parallel structure by making the forms of words as similar as possible. Example: I like to sing and dancing. (incorrect) It can be corrected in two ways: I like to sing and to dance. I like singing and dancing.

Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence: 1 - Vitamin C is necessary for the prevention and ------of scurvy. (A) it cures (B) cures (C) cure (D) For curing 2 -A baby’s development is influenced by both heredity and -----(A) By environmental factors (B) environmentally (C) The influence of the environment (D) Environment Key answer: 1 - C 2 - D

Read the sentences carefully then write (C) for correct sentences and (I) for incorrect sentences. ( ) 1 - The hotter the food is, harder it is to eat. ( ) 2 - The warmer the weather, the greater the attendance. ( ) 3 - The more you say, the worst the situation will be. ( ) 4 - The more you use the phone , the higher the bill will be. ( ) 5 - The earliest you send in your tax forms, the sooner you will receive your refund ( ) 6 - The more people there at the party, you’ll have a good time. ( ) 7 - The harder you serve, the easier it is to win the point. Key answer: 1 -I 2 - C 3 -I 4 -C 5 -I 6 - I 7 - C

After have, use the past participle VERB FORMS AFTER HAVE + past participle Whenever you see the helping verb have in any of its forms (have, has, having, had), be sure that the verb it follows is in the past participle form. Examples: - They had walk to school. ( should be had walked) - We have see the show. ( should be have seen ) - He has take the test ( should be has taken )

Read the sentences carefully then write (C) for correct sentences and (I) for incorrect sentences. ( ) 1 - The girl drunk a glass of milk. ( ) 2 - Before she left, she had asked her mother for permission. ( ) 3 - The secretary has broke her typewriter. ( ) 4 -She has rarely rode her horse in the park. ( ) 5 - He has often become angry during meetings. ( ) 6 - Having saw the film, he was quite disappointed ( ) 7 - You might have respond more effectively. Key answer: 1 -I 2 - C 3 -I 4 -I 5 -C 6 - I 7 - I

The Passive To convert the active sentence into passive sentence , you must make the subject of the active sentence the object of the passive sentence with by Active The subject does the action of the verb Passive The subject does receives the action of the verb THE FORM OF THE PASSIVE BE + past participle ( by + object ) Examples: - Samy wrote the letter. - The letter was written by Samy

Read the sentences carefully then write (C) for correct sentences and (I) for incorrect sentences. ( ) 1 - At 12: 00 Sam is eat his lunch ( ) 2 - We are meeting them later today. ( ) 3 - The message was took by the receptionist. ( ) 4 - Being heard was extremely important to him. ( ) 5 - Are the two companies merge into one? ( ) 6 - He could be four courses this semester. ( ) 7 - The score information has been duplicates on the backup disk