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Exercise 26Book 3 · Section 13 · 26 / 60
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 26
MATCHING

Match each sentence beginning with its ending.

BEGINNINGS

A You may be surprised to learn

B The bicycle has come a long way

C The first bicycle was not a very fast or safe vehicle,

D Kirkpatrick was not recognised in his time,

ENDINGS

1. since it had no steering and no brakes.

2. how the basic bicycle has not changed.

3. but the bicycle he invented became popular throughout the world.

4. since the day it was invented by a Scottish blacksmith in 1839.

5. and it has a big future as the town vehicle of tomorrow.

6. that the bicycle was invented later than the locomotive.