Handout 6 sentence structure

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Handout 6 – Sentence Structure
1. What is the problem with the following sentences?
a) My cousin probably a very rich man since he owned many homes and drove a Mercedes.
b) When we meet new people and start living in a totally new environment are scary.
c) My roommate when he is not busy with his school work, he is working a part-time job.
d) They don’t want their children to grow up in a broken family father’s or mother’s love.
e) Alienation is also noticeable among people come from different cultural backgrounds.
f) Their acquaintances assume them as passive, unsociable, and boring.
g) As my brother said to my mom that he did not feel like having a family.
h) My advisor told me to check out a journal from the library and reading it as soon as possible was necessary.
Exercises:
1. Correct the following sentences when necessary:
a) Molecular genetics is a field is progressing very fast.
b) She wonders whether studying so hard worth it.
c) Wong is a Chinese woman who grew up in the United States finds her native language very difficult.
d) There are two reasons for scary of writing English.
e) To go to school and working full time is hard.
f) Many high-school students are more interested in learning about current events than about events happened in the past.
g) I hope to introduce you to Dr. Wood, my thesis advisor and who chairs the Chemistry Department.
h) His summer job involves washing laboratory equipment, to set up new experiments, and recording some basic data.
i) Mark thanked the tutor had worked with him an hour per week for the whole semester.
j) Portland is a city residents tend to be environmentally aware.