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How to solve: MatchingMatch sentence beginnings with endings; one ending is extra.

What it tests

Sentence logic and grammar across the join: tense, subject–verb link, linking words and meaning.

In the exam: part XIII, 4 tasks.

Step by step

  1. Read each beginning and predict how it could continue.
  2. Look at the last word of the beginning: a comma, but, because, a preposition — each needs a certain kind of ending.
  3. Check grammar across the join: tense, subject, pronouns.
  4. Check the meaning of the full sentence.
  5. Leave the extra ending unused.

Watch out for

  • An ending that is grammatically possible but illogical.
  • Pronouns that don't match (he after a plural subject).
  • Endings that repeat the beginning's information.

Example

The writer Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Japan, … — 1) after they finish high school. 2) but his family emigrated to Britain when he was five.

2) — but contrasts Japan with Britain, and his refers to the writer.

Exercise 34
MATCHING

Match each sentence beginning with its ending.

BEGINNINGS

A The research showed that women speak about 16,000 words a day

B Scientists are skeptical of the common belief that women use three times

C The stereotype, that women talk too much and men keep quiet,

D When women talk to women their conversations cover many topics

ENDINGS

1. is bad not only for women but also for men.

2. whereas men usually stick to one subject for long periods of time.

3. talk more than men may not be true.

4. as many words as men.

5. and men speak only slightly fewer.

6. than when men talk to other men.