Week 2 Exercises

EXCERCISES:
1. In the following sentences, underline relative pronouns when they are the SUBJECT of the sentence, and make them BOLD (or underline them twice) when they act as adjectives:
a. Another makes its way to the front.
b. Several dogs and cats were left in the shelter.
c. What is free?
d. Some of them went skiing.
e. This is the last time.

2. Rewrite the following sentences so that the indirect object becomes the object of a prepositional phrase:
a. The dj gave the mc the records.
b. My mother brought me the clothing.
c. His best friend left him all his money.

3. Remove faulty or excessive coordination by using subordination to show the relationship between the clauses:
a. Eugene O’Neill was an American playwright, and he won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.
b. O’Neill had an unhappy childhood, and he told the story of his childhood in a play entitled Long Day’s Journey into Night, and he said it was “written in tears and blood.”
c. O’Neill’s daughter Oona married Charlie Chaplin, but she married against her father’s will.
d. One of O’Neill’s plays, The Iceman Cometh, is full of symbols and hidden clues about its meaning, and it has probably been written about more than any other American play.
e. Louis Sheaffer wrote a biography of O’Neill, and he spent sixteen years researching and writing it, and his book won a Pulitizer Prize.

4. Combine the following sentences, by subordinating one idea to another:
a. My sister Carla loves to shop at airport duty-free stores. Her first overseas trip was to Paris.
b. Carla gets to take several overseas trips every year. She works for an importing firm in Ottawa.
c. Duty-free shops are not really duty-free to the consumer. She still saves money on perfumes, watches, scarves, and ties.
d. Carla arrives at the airport early and checks in. She heads for the duty-free shops.
e. She prefers the large selection of the airport duty-free shops. The on-plane duty-free shops are cheaper.



5. Correct the following sentence to remove excessive subordination:
a. Daniel J. Boorstin, who has been a teacher at Harvard and the University of Chicago, is now head of the Library of Congress, which is located in Washington , DC, and which is the largest library in the world.
b. The Library of Congress is open to everyone, which makes it different from the government libraries of many other countries, which restrict use of their resources to a select few.