English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 51

Fill in the missing words.
1. To clarify the organization, Gene adds at the beginning of the first supporting point the transitional phrase "_____________," and he sets off the third supporting point with the word "______________"
2. In the interest of ( unity, support, organization ) ______________,
he crosses out the sentence "___________" He realizes that this sentence is not a relevant detail to support the idea that the work was physically hard.
3. To add more ( unity, support, organization ) ___________________,
he changes "a lot of hours" to "______________"; he changes
"on the dock" to "__________"; he changes "cold
temperatures" to "____________."
4. In the interest of eliminating wordiness, he removes the words "____________" from the sixth sentence.
5. To achieve parallelism, Gene changes "the half hour for lunch was not paid" to "_______________."
6. For greater sentence variety, Gene combines two short sentences, beginning the second part of the sentence with the subordinating word
"__________."
7. To create a consistent point of view, Gene changes "You felt this isolation" to "_____________."
8. Finally, Gene replaces the somewhat vague "bad" in "The vats were a bad place to be on a cold morning, and the job was a bad one to have" with two more precise words: "_______" and "____________."