Making Correct and Effective Sentences
I. Correct Sentences
1. Completeness in Structure
(1) How to operate this computer?
(2) Have lost my key.
(3) Because he hadn’t finished his assignment, so he continued working in the classroom.
(4) The old man returning home after eight years’ absence to find that the neighbors he had known were no longer there.
(5) Mark Twain whose experience as a sailor on the Mississippi provided him with abundant material for the novels he was to write.
2. The Right Subject
(1) On entering the classroom, the students stood up and said, “Good morning!”
(2) After finishing her composition, the translation exercise was taken up.
(3) Hurrying to the conference room, no one was there.
(4) Returning home after work, supper was waiting for him in the kitchen.
(5) To look at a map, the importance of this new railway will be seen.
3. Agreement Between the Subject and the Predicate Verb
(1) His whole family is/are here with him.
(2) The majority of the students taking this exam is/are girls.
(3) These cattle belong/belongs to that ranch.
(4) There is/are an enormous audience in the hall.
(5) The audience was/were shocked by the scenes of violence in the film.
4. Clear Pronoun Reference
(1) I’m going to talk on jazz music for he is a well-known composer.
(2) Leave out the word in that sentence because it is too difficult.
(3) She told my sister that her idea was practicable.
(4) He is the man recommended by Mr. Smith who knows how to fix cars.
5. Ending Sentences with Full Stops
I set out for the biggest bookstore in town, at the school gate I saw a girl of my class, she was going there, too, we decided to go together, we walked, the bookstore was not far away.
6. Joining Clauses with Conjunctions
(1) She enjoys listening to pop music, her sister likes classical music better.
(2) She speaks English fluently, she speaks French quite well.
(3) The planes for the building are not yet ready, the construction can’t start very soon.
7. A Main Clause in a Complex Sentence
(1) Because he had not heard about that important decision.
(2) Whatever the director said at the conference.
(3) The man we could find for the job.
8. Proper Use of Comparisons
(1) comparisonsHer English is much better than I.
(2) The language of Henry James is more elaborate than Ernest Hemingway.
(3) But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.
但在许多人看来，穷人能不靠政府救济养活自己，而且生活得几乎和过去依靠政府救济时生活得一样好，这件事本身就是一个巨大的胜利。
(4) What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to lose professional identity than to step out of uniform?

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