English Skills with Readings 9th Edition by John Langan, Zoe Albright

Exercise 2

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 "______________"

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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.

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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 "____________."

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4. In the interest of eliminating wordiness, he removes the words "____________" from the sixth sentence.

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5. To achieve parallelism, Gene changes "the half hour for lunch was not paid" to "_______________."

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6. For greater sentence variety, Gene combines two short sentences, beginning the second part of the sentence with the subordinating word

"__________."

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7. To create a consistent point of view, Gene changes "You felt this isolation" to "_____________."

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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 "____________."

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1.?“first of all” . . . “finally”