Answer key unit 1

Q1, The loss of a parent at a young age can traumatise a person for the rest of your life.
a. for the rest of yourself life.
b. for the rest of his or her life.
c. for the rest of your life.
d. for the rest of your living.
e. on the rest of your life.
Ans-b, The use of "your" at the end of the sentence is confusing, as the only reference in the
sentence is "a person," and the second person pronoun has no place in the sentence. Changing
"your" to a third person possessive pronoun will straighten out this problem. Because we do
not know whether the "person" in question is male or female, we should use the phrase "his
or her." The correct answer choice, therefore, is "for the rest of his or her life."
Q2. Although the basketball team used their star players, the match was lost.
a. Although the basketball team used their star players
b. Although the star players were used by the basketball team
c. The basketball team used its star players, although
d. Although the basketball team used its star players
e. The basketball team used their star players
ans- d, Choose a pronoun that properly agrees with the subject. In this case, "basketball team"
is singular, although it represents a group of people, and should be accompanied with "its,"
instead of "their."
Q3 John and Susan runs to the finish line as fast as possible.
a. are run
b. runs to the finish line
c. run to the finish line
d. having run to the finish line
e. running to the finish line
ans- c, the underlined portion of the sentence contains a verb error with "runs." "John and
Susan," while both singular nouns, are together a plural, and need a plural verb form, instead
of the singular "runs." "Run to the finish line" is the correct answer choice
Q4, The boy, among many friends, celebrate his birthday in lavish style.
a. having been celebrated
b. is celebrated
 c. celebrates
d. celebrate
e. is celibrant
Ans-c, The subject of the sentence is singular, "the boy," and not the plural "many friends,"
meaning the verb needs to be singular as well. Additionally, the sentence must keep the same
meaning, that they boy is doing the celebrating. "Celebrates" is the correct answer choice.
Q5, Autocratic styles of leadership frequently annoys the people who must work under such
leaders.
a. frequented annoying
b. frequent annoy
c. frequently annoy
d. frequent annoys
e. frequently annoys
ans-c
The verb "annoy" is used with the subject "styles," although the prepositional phrase "of
leadership" and the adverb "frequently" come between the two words. Therefore, the verb
form must take a singular form to match the subject. "Frequently annoy" is the correct answer
form.
Q6, Coming back to the farm, the gruesome scene was seen by everyone in the car.
a. everyone in the car saw the gruesome scene.
b. the gruesome scene being seen by everyone in the car.
c. the gruesome scene was seen by everyone at the car.
d. the gruesome scene was seen by everyone in the car.
e. the gruesome scene saw by everyone in the car.
Ans- a, The sentence is written with a dangling modifier, which makes the sentence read as
though the "gruesome scene" was what was "coming back to the farm." The sentence needs
to be restructured to clarify this problem. The only answer choice that does this is "everyone
in the car saw the gruesome scene."
Q7. Waiting for the crucial trial to begin, the anxiety Neil felt was almost overwhelming.
a. the anxiety almost overwhelmed Neil.
b. the anxiety being felt by Neil was almost overwhelming.
c. the anxiety Neil felt was almost overwhelming.
d. Neil felt almost overwhelmed with anxiety.
 e. Neil's anxiety felt almost overwhelming.
Ans-d ,
When a sentence begins with a dangling participle or descriptive phrase, the person or thing
described in that phrase (in this case, "Neil") must immediately follow it. Only one answer
choice does this correctly. The answer choice that begins "Neil's anxiety" may appear to do
so, but it does not, because the possessive "Neil's" is no longer the subject, but is describing
the anxiety.
Q8, The vineyards of Napa Valley are at once breathlessly vibrant, symmetrical, and the
green is profound.
a. and profoundly green.
b. and the green is profound.
c. and so profound green.
d. and it is profoundly green.
e. and its green is quite profound.
Ans-a
This sentence requires parallelism across all elements. Only "profoundly green" matches
"breathlessly vibrant" and "symmetrical."
Q9, The teacher sought new ways of teaching, believing her students would get more from
lessons featuring playing, acting, and creativity.
a. featuring playing, acting, and creativity.
b. featuring playing, acting, and creating.
c. featuring playing, acting, and creative things.
d. featuring play, act, and creativity.
e. featuring the playing, acting, and creativity.
Ans-b
The underlined portion of the sentence features a list of verbs, but they are not all in a parallel
form. All such lists must feature a parallel structure for the verbs listed; therefore, the correct
answer is "featuring playing, acting, and creating."
Q10, Stretching before physical workouts is important to improve flexibility and avoiding
injury.
a. is important to improve flexibility and being injured less.
b. is important to both improve flexibility and also avoid injury.
c. is important to improve flexibility and avoid injury.
 d. is important to improve flexibility and in the avoidance of injury.
e. are important to improve flexibility and avoiding injury.
Ans-c
Paralellism: in a list of two or more items in a sentence, each should be worded in the same
manner for consistency. One choice changes "is" to "are," which is incorrect because the
subject is the singular "stretching," not the plural "workouts," which is part of a prepositional
phrase.
Q11, Darren spent most of the day sulking alone in his room, but however he came out
once to eat dinner with his parents. No error
a. No error
b. to eat
c. most of the day
d. but however
e. spent
ans- d
Using both "but" and "however" is redundant; there is no need for both of those conjunctions
here. Only one is necessary (and, for what it's worth, "but" would sound better in this
sentence).
Q12, In addition to providing lunch for the children, the camp
counselors also gave them dessert and played educational games with them. No error:
a. them
b. No error
c. also
d. the children, the
e. played
ans- c
The error in this sentence is redundancy, which is basically saying more than you need to.
Since the beginning of the sentence already established that the counselors were going to
provide something else besides lunch ("in addition"), saying "also" later is redundant. The
solution for redundancy is almost always just cutting something out so the revised sentence
would read "In addition to providing lunch for the children, the camp
counselors gave them dessert and played educational games with them."
Q13, Intelligence is a trait that is quite difficult to measure, despite much different attempts
to do so.
a. despite the much different attempts to do so.
 b. despite much different attempts to do it.
c. despite much different attempts to do so.
d. despite many different attempts to do so.
e. despite much different attempting to do so.
Ans- d
The use of "much" in the sentence is incorrect, as "much" indicates a great amount, but not a
large count, and should be used for singular nouns. The correct choice should have the word
"many" instead of "much." The only answer choice that makes this chnage is "despite many
different attempts to do so."
Q14, Under normal circumstances, the family would have never driven up to the
frighteningly looking motel.
a. for the frighteningly looking motel.
b. to a frighteningly looking motel.
c. to the frighteningly looking motel.
d. to the frightening looking motel.
e. to the frighteningly looked motel.
Ans-d
The use of the word "frighteningly" is absolutely incorrect, as it is an adverb being used to
describe a gerund, or a verb that takes the form of a noun, in "looking." Gerunds need to be
modified with an adjective. Therefore, "to the frightening looking motel" is the correct
answer.
Q15, Questions abounded in the inquiry into illegal payments alleged made by the college to
student athletes.
a. alleged made
b. alleged making
c. allegedly made
d. allegedly making
e. made alleged
ans-c
The word "alleged" is modifying the word "made," a verb, which needs an adverb to modify
it. The adverb form of "alleged" is "allegedly," which makes the correct answer "allegedly
made."
Q16, If seriously mentally ill people do not receive medication, they can grow unable to
support themselves, become irrational, and perhaps even threatening the safety of themselves
or others.
a. and perhaps even threatening
b. and may even threaten
c. and even a possible threat to
d. as well as possibly threatening
e. as well as a possible threat to
ans- b
This question has to do with parallel structure. The correct structure is ‘grow’, ‘become’ and
‘threaten’. Only B has this combination.
Q17. Two disabled children, one with crutches and the other one with a wheelchair, enters the
class on Monday.
a. the other one with a wheelchair, enters
b. the other one a wheelchair, enter
c. the other with a wheelchair, enters
d. the other with a wheelchair, enter
e. one with a wheelchair, enters
ans –d
This is a very simple question involving subject/verb agreement. Should it be ‘two children
enter’ or ‘two children enters’? They enter (plural). That eliminates choices A, C and E.
Choice B implies that one of the children is a wheelchair. Choice D is the correct answer
Q18.
If I had the address, I would have delivered the package myself.
A. had the address,
B. had the address;
C. had the address-
D. had had the address;
E. had had the address,

Q19. Some of them burned out eons ago, the night sky is spotted with thousands of stars.
a. Some of them burned out eons ago, the night sky is spotted with thousands of stars.
b. Burned out eons ago, the night sky is spotted with many thousands of stars.
c. Thousands of stars, some of them burned out eons ago, are spotting the night sky.
d. The night sky is spotted with thousands of stars, some of which are burnt out eons ago.
e. The night sky is spotted with thousands of stars, some of them burned out eons ago.
Ans- e
This question involves dangling modifiers. What burned out eons ago? Thousands of stars
did. ‘Thousands of stars’ and not ‘the night sky’ must therefore come after the comma.
Eliminate A and B. C has an incorrect tense. It should be ‘spot’ and not ‘are spotting’. Choice
D also has a mistake in tense. The stars are not burnt out at present, they burned out a long
time ago. Choice E is the correct answer
Q20. The humidity, air pollution, and noise have affected the children of Maria less
drastically than those of her neighbor.
a. affected the children of Maria less drastically than those of
b. affected the children of Maria less drastically than
c. affected the children of Maria less dramatically than they have
d. dramatically affected the children of Maria less than
e. dramatically affected the children of Maria and

ans-a
What is the comparison being made in this sentence? It is being made between two sets of
children: Maria’s and her neighbor’s. Choices B, C, D and E all imply that the comparison is
being made between Maria’s children and her neighbor, not between Maria’s children and her
neighbor’s children. Choice A is the correct answer.

Q21.Poverty is too much with us and its presence across vast stretches of our country
disturbed our conscience.
A. disturbed our consciousness
B. disturb its conscience
C. disturbs our conscious
D. disturbs our conscience
E. No correction required
Q22. Unlike that of the French, who linger when they eat meals, Americans are so enamored
of eating quickly that they have a type of meal called “fast food”.

a. Unlike that of the French, who linger when they eat

b. Unlike the French, who linger when they eat
c. Unlike the French, lingering when eating
d. Dissimilar to the French, lingering during
e. Lacking similarity to the French, who linger during

Ans- What is the comparison being made here? It is between the Americans and the
French. Choice A does not compare the Americans and the French because it incorrectly
adds the word ‘that’. ‘Unlike’ is simpler and shorter than ‘dissimilar to’ and ‘lacking
similarity to’. Eliminate D and E. The simple present is necessary to describe a habitual
action. ‘Lingering’ in option C implies the French are lingering now. Choice B is the
correct answer

Q23. Certain painkilling drugs such as Oxycotin have recently been shown to be addictive
to patients, which may limit their potential to reduce pain.

a. which may limit their potential to reduce

b. which may limit their potential for reducing
c. which may limit such drugs’ potential to reduce
d. an effect that may limit their potential to reduce
e. an effect that may limit the potential of such drugs to reduce

ans- Do you pick ‘which may limit’ or ‘an effect that may limit’? The relative pronoun
‘which’ must refer to the word immediately before it. In this sentence it is meant to refer
to the fact that the drugs are addictive. However, it is incorrectly placed next to patients.
Eliminate A, B and C. That leaves us with choices D and E. Now another ambiguity
arises. In choice D, it is unclear what the ‘their’ refers to. Choice E is the best answer.

Q24., Books to be added to the high school curriculum should be educational and should
have no profanity in them or be lewd.

a. and should have no profanity in them or be lewd

b. and should not have profanity in them or not be lewd
c. and contain no profanity or lewdness
d. without containing profanity nor be lewd
e. without having any profanity or no lewdness in them

ans- The second ‘not’ in option B is unnecessary and incorrect. The ‘no’ in E is similarly
unnecessary and incorrect. Option D is not parallel. Option C is more efficient than option
A. C is correct.

Q25. After Georgio’s Caf˝O got a favorable review in a travel guidebook, the number of
tourists eating there were in excess of the number of local customers going regularly.
 a. were in excess of the number of local customers
b. had an excess over the local customers who were
c. exceeded the local customers who were
d. numbered more than the local customers
e. exceeded the number of local customers

ans- The first thing you have to untangle is a simple grammatical mistake. What does the
excess or exceeding refer to? It refers to the number, not the tourists. Number is singular, so
you would not say ‘the number were’ in excess, nor would you say ‘number numbered’. That
means choices A and D are wrong. What else does number refer to? Does the number of
tourists exceed local customers or the number of customers? Remember, you can’t compare
apples and oranges. Choice C refers to the wrong thing. Also, the numbers didn’t have
anything, per se, so choice B is incorrect. Choice E is the correct answer.

Q26 All the matches of Cricket World Cup will be broadcasted on Start Cricket.

A. will broadcast
B. are going to broadcast
C. going to be broadcasted
D. will be broadcast
E. No correction required

Q27.Montreal, where the tourist industry is larger than any other Canadian city, has
neighborhoods entirely composed of souvenir shops and cafes.

a. where the tourist industry is larger than any other Canadian city
b. which has a tourist industry larger than that of other Canadian cities
c. which had a tourist industry larger than any other Canadian city
d. whose tourist industry is larger than any other Canadian city
e. whose tourist industry is larger than that of any other Canadian city

ans- Choices A, C and D have incorrect comparisons. They imply that the industry is larger
than any other Canadian City, whereas, in fact, the tourist industry in Montreal is larger than
the tourist industry in any other Canadian city. C uses the wrong tense. B removes the word
‘any’ inappropriately. It is necessary to emphasize that the tourist industry in Montreal is
larger than the tourist industry of any other Canadian city. Choice E is the correct answer.

Q28. Because Albert is the most experienced and he is therefore the best ballet dancer in the
company, he is being increasingly viewed by the director as the best candidate for the role of
the Nutcracker.

a. and he is therefore the best ballet dancer in the company, he is being increasingly
viewed
b. he is therefore the best of ballet dancers, and it has increased the view
 c. and therefore the best ballet dancer, he is being increasingly viewed
d. and therefore he is the best of ballet dancers, there is an increasing view
e. therefore being the best of ballet dancers, it is increasingly viewed

ans- Choices A, B and D are all repetitive as they use ‘he’, which is not needed because it is
clear that Albert and only Albert is being referenced. Choice E does not have the correct
parallel structure. It also incorrectly uses ‘it’ to refer to Albert. Choice C is the correct answer

Q29. He did not mention how old he was or what is his gender.
A. what was his gender
B. what gender of his was
C. what his gender was
D. what the gender of him is
E. No correction required

Q30.There is nothing quite depressing than low level of unemployment in India.

A. as depressing
B. this depressing
C. more depressing
D. as depressing as
E. No correction required

UNIT 2 ANSWER KEY

Exercises:

1. Insert the correct word(s) in the sentences below. 1. If we go __to________ the beach,
would you like to come ____too______? (to/ too/ two)

2. I am going _______whether___ you like it or not. (whether/ weather)

3. I shall put ___their_______ parcels over _____there_____. (there / their/ they’re)

4. I like to come _____here_____ because I always ______hear____ the latest gossip.

(hear/here)
 5. There is _______no___ paper left in the printer, or did you _____know_____ that
already?(no/ know)

6. ____would______ you like to come to the party with me? (would/ wood)

7. You need to go _____through_____ the door at the end of the corridor to get to the
exit.(through/ threw)

8. I must ______write____ a letter to the bank. (write / right)

9. I need to see if he has cashed the ____cheque______. (check/ cheque)

10. He __rode________ his motorbike along the ______road____. (road/ rode/ rowed)

2. Fill in the blanks using ‘aw’ sound.

• Niagara _ falls___ls is the highest falls in the world.

• The children are playing with the basket __ _ball___.

• He got a ______scholar _____ship from his school.

• __Always__ _____ walk to your left on the road.

• Roses have _ ___thorns___.

3.Unscramble the jumbled words

Liob - Lion

Jyeon - enjoy

Snioe - noise

Oyj - joy

Inoc - coin

Sybo - boys

Ayorl - royal

4.Choose the Correct Response.

• I went to the barber to get a (hair/ hare)cut.

• Sheena is a (fare/ fair) girl.

• On Ridhima’s birthday her father gifted her a teddy(bare/ bear).

• Please don’t (stare/ stair) at the stranger.

• I bought a (pear/ pair) of scissors for the craft classes.

• I will (ware/ wear) a red dress for the party.

5. Use ‘wear’, ‘where’ or ‘we’re’ correctly:

1. Make sure you __________wear________ a life jacket on the boat.

2. Please put the art supplies back ________where ____________ they belong.

3. _____we’re_______________ going on a road trip next Friday.

4. Mom told me to ______wear____________ a coat, but I didn’t listen.

5. I don’t know _________where___________ I put those moving boxes.

6. This weekend, _____we’re_____________ going to the park to play baseball.

7. ___________where__________ will you hide the gifts?

8. My sister wants to ______wear_______ the sweater she got for her birthday.

9. John invited us to breakfast, but _______we’re_______ not going to make it on time.

10.I will ____________wear____ my red hat to school tomorrow.

6. In English, many written words contain consonant letters that are not pronounced. These
letters are referred to as ‘silent’ letters. Match each word with the appropriate meaning below.

Rhyme often listen island calm column

talk foreign hour exhausted bark

1.sixty minutes _______________hour___________

2land surrounded by water ______________island____________

3 peaceful and quiet ________________________calm__

4 words containing the same sounds _______________rhyme___________

5 to hear and give attention when someone speaks _________listen_________________

6 to speak ________talk__________________

7 to be very tired and without energy __________exhausted________________

8 from another country or another place __________foreign ________________

9 a strong, tall piece of stone or wood _______bark___________________

10 used to support a building _____________column_____________

7. Read the sentence. Write the correct word on the line.

1. The ______________ ____ going around the mountain is very scary. (rode, road)

2. ____________________ not going to believe what I saw today. (your, you’re)

3. I don’t know if I would like ___________________ soup or not. (beet, beat)

4. Stanley ran around two ____________________ before they threw him out. (bases, basis)

5. The huge _________________________ sat dangerously close to the edge. (bolder,

boulder)

6. The ______________________ in our new house will be ten feet tall. (Ceiling, sealing)

7. The ________________________ ripped on the curtain when the cat climbed it. (seem,
seam)

8. My neighbor delivers the ______________________ on your ___________________.

(mail, male) (rode, road)

9. He said the dog was __________________ but __________ not. (theirs, there’s) (its, it’s)

10. My mom bought us four different kinds of __________________________ to eat.

(cereal, serial) 11. An independent _________________________ is a sentence. (clause,
claws)

12. We rented a hotel ___________________ when we went on vacation. (suite, sweet)

8. Write sentences for 2 pairs of words, demonstrating the different word class:

1. Conduct
Noun
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Verb
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2. Digest

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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3. Escort

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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4. Insult

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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5. Produce

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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6. Record

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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7. Access

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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8. Address

Noun
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9. Auction

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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10. Balance

Noun
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11. Bargain

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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12. Blame

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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13. Blast

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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14. Catch

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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15. Cause

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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16. Convict

Noun
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17. Complex

Noun
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18. Desert

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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19. Segment

Noun
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………………………………………… Verb
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20. Content

Noun
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Verb
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9. Read the sentence. Write the correct word on the line:

1. ________________who’s____ going to be the first to recite __their_________________

poem? (Whose,

Who’s) (their, there, they’re)

2. The window _________pane___________ needs to be painted white. (pain, pane)

3. The yellow part of an egg is called the __________yolk_____________, (yoke, yolk)

4. Cindy makes ________pear____________ salad every time I eat at her house. (pare, pair,
pear)

5. Grandma taught me how to ________knead_________ bread ___________dough_______.

(need, knead)

(doe, dough)

6. I love going to the county ___________fair____________ each year. (fare, fair)

7. My dad always says, “I love you ______dear_______” to my mom. (deer, dear) .

10. How many syllables are there in each word? Choose the correct answer.
1. monkey

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

2. relocation

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

3. magnet

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

4. slobs

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

5. characterize

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

6. travelling

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

7. rocket

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

8. trying

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

9. garden

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

10. caterpillar

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

11. Where is the stress in each of these words? Decide which syllable: 1. reception

a) 1st b) 2nd c) 3rd

2. comparison
a) 1st b) 2nd c) 3rd d) 4th

3. potato

a) 1st b) 2nd c) 3rd

4. bedroom

a) 1st b) 2nd

5. fourteen

a) 1st b) 2nd

6. forty

a) 1st b) 2nd

7. delicious

a) 1st b) 2nd c) 3rd

8. playful

a) 1st b) 2nd

12. Use underlining to show the correct stress on these compound words which have been
given in a sentence to make the word class obvious:

1. I heard a blackbird singing.

2. Put the seedlings in the greenhouse until they are taller.

3. He is a bad-tempered old man.

4. My grandparents are a little old-fashioned. (2 words)

5. I don’t understand what you mean.

6. The water will overflow and come out through this overflow pipe. (2 words)

7. I need to go to the supermarket before I leave for the airport. (2 words)

8. He is waiting at the bus-stop on the main highway. (2 words)

9. He came straight out of the swimming-pool and into the living-room to answer the
telephone. (3 words)

10. This raincoat isn’t waterproof. (2 words)

11. Traffic-lights are confusing because I’m colour-blind. (2 words)

12. What’s he like? Well he’s easy-going, and good-looking, very self-confident and always
well-dressed. (4 words)

13. For each question, the correct choice is the one in which the stressed syllable is
capitalized, as in vocabulary:

1. Can you pass me a plastic knife?

a) PLAS-tic

b) plas-TIC

2. I want to be a photographer.

a) PHO-to-graph-er

b) pho-TO-graph-er

3. Which photograph do you like best?

a) PHO-to-graph
b) pho-TO-graph

4. He was born in China.

a) CHI-na

b) Chi-NA

5. Whose computer is this?

a) com-PU-ter

b) com-pu-TER

6. I can't decide which book to borrow.

a) DE-cide

b) de-CIDE

7. Couldn't you understand what she was saying?

a) un-DER-stand

b) un-der-STAND

8. Voting in elections is your most important duty.

a) im-POR-tant

b) im-por-TANT

9. We had a really interesting conversation.

a) con-VER-sa-tion

b) con-ver-SA-tion

10. How do you pronounce this word?

a) PRO-nounce

b) pro-NOUNCE

14 Match the following conversations with the correct sentence stress:

A. Where did you get these flowers from? The 1. I asked you to buy me a bunch
cemetery? of white roses.

B. Yes....

A. You weren’t supposed to steal them!

__________4______

A. Here are the flowers Bob asked me to get. 2. I asked you to buy me a bunch
of white roses.
B. Eh? Bob didn’t say anything, ____1___________

A. Why do these roses have your mother’s name on 3. I asked you to buy me a bunch
them? of white roses.

B. I got them for my mother, just like you asked.

A. In what world would I ask you to buy your mother

flowers on our anniversary? _______5________

A. John, why are there yellow roses on the table? 4. I asked you to buy me a bunch
__________7_____ of white roses.

A. Oh, lilies, they’re beautiful, but ____8_________ 5. I asked you to buy me a bunch
of white roses.

A. I was kind of busy today, so my secretary did me 6. I asked you to buy me a bunch
the favour of ordering you the flowers you wanted. of white roses.

B. What?! _________3___________ Why do I want

roses from your secretary?

A. Listen, I know a single rose is supposed to be very 7. I asked you to buy me a bunch
romantic, but ________6________ of white roses.
 A. Susie, you’re always bossing me around. Ordering 8. I asked you to buy me a bunch
me to buy you flowers is the last straw. of white roses.

B. Fred, honestly, I don’t understand what you’re

talking about. ____________2______, not order!

15. Look at each of these words. Decide on which syllable the stress falls?

1. personal

a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd

2. personnel

a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd

3. adjective

a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd

4. enhance

a. 1st b. 2nd

5. Canadian

a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. 4th

6. Japanese

a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd

7. psychology

a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. 4th

8. politician

a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. 4th

Answer Key unit 3

1.1 Polar bears are in (1) danger of dying out. (2) Unlike some other endangered animals, it's
not hunters that are the problem, it's climate change. Since 1979, the ice cap at the Arctic
Circle where polar bears live has (3) reduced in size by about 30 per cent. The temperature in
the Arctic has slowly been (4) rising and this is (5) causing the sea ice to melt, endangering
the polar bears' home.
The polar bears' main (6) sources of food are the different types of seal found in the Arctic.
They catch them by waiting next to the air holes the seals have (7) made in the ice. (8)
Although the bears are very strong swimmers, they could never catch seals in the water. This
means that the bears (9) really do rely on the ice to hunt.
Polar bears also need sea ice to travel. They can (10) cover a huge territory and often swim
from one part of the ice to another. They have been (11) known to swim up to 100km, but
when there is less ice, they may have to swim further, and this can (12) prove fatal to the
bears. A number of bears have drowned in the last few years and scientists believe that it is
because they were not able to (13) reach more sea ice before they became too tired and
couldn't swim any further.

1.2
The Dead Sea is (1) situated where the River Jordan ends, just 24 kilometres east of
Jerusalem. It is actually a lake. It (2) extends for about 74 kilometres and is 16 kilometres
wide, so it is quite small but (3) extremely deep - about 300 metres.
(4) Originally, the Dead Sea was about the same size as today. Then the climate of the area
changed and became wetter. This change (5) caused the Dead Sea to grow longer. However,
after some time, the climate changed again, and the lake returned to its original size and (6)
shape.
The Dead Sea is one of the saltiest lakes in the world. One litre of seawater may (7) contain
up to 327 grams of salt. With so much salt in the water, no fish or flora can survive in the
Dead Sea. (8) However, for people who love swimming, it's the ideal place to (9) relax. And
the salt in the water makes it easy to swim without any (10) effort at all!
There is not much rainfall in this place of the world. It usually rains only between October
and March. The temperatures vary (11) depending on the area you look at. In the northern
parts of the Dead Sea winter temperatures reach only about 14° C; however, in August it can
get up to 34 °C in the south. The highest (12) recorded temperature for this region is 51 °C.
Nearly twenty years ago there was a (13) plan to build a canal between the Dead Sea and the
Mediterranean. This would make the (14) level of the water in the Dead Sea go up.
However, the cost of doing this is so (15) enormous that the project cannot go ahead yet.
2.1
1.(b) Biopsy
2. (b) Chronology
3.(c) crusade
4.(b) exonerate
5.(d) recapitulate
6.(c) Panacea
7.(c) pedentic
8.(b) sacrilege
9.(b) utopia
10.(a) verbatim
11.(a) jurisprudence
12.(b) Rhetoric
13.(b) Legislature
14.(b) ambidexterous
15.(b) arbitrator
16.(c) bohemian
17.(c) chauvinist
18.(a) crusader
19.(a) gourmet
20.(a)Indefatigable
3.1
1.(a) choke
2.(a) corroboration
3.(b) intensification
4.(a) cogent
5.(a) Reconnoitering
6.(d) all of these
7.(d) aggravate
8.(a) inspiring
9.(a) bellwether
10.(b) disagreement

4.1
1.(a) workcation
2.(c) Assortment
3.(b) renounce
4.(a) breach
5.(b) sanctimonious
6.(c) tenacity
7.(c)fecundity
8.(b) surreptitiously
9.(b) masquerade
10.(a) suppression
11.(a) trajectory