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SECTION 13 · Match sentence parts

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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 10
MATCHING

Match each sentence beginning with its ending.

BEGINNINGS

A Today’s parents have observed many changes in their children

B Many parents say they don’t like the changes

C Parents have always had many challenges in raising their children,

D It is really difficult to raise a child,

ENDINGS

1. however, perhaps never more than today.

2. especially when you are the only parent and there is no one else to support you.

3. he hasn’t gone outside to play in months.

4. who frequently play video or computer games.

5. that we should stop trying to control them.

6. they see in their children.