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Matching

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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 31
MATCHING

Match each sentence beginning with its ending.

BEGINNINGS

A Wrapped in newspaper, chips keep warm

B British hygiene rules no longer allow food to be wrapped in old papers,

C No British town is more than 150 km from a sea port,

D Once railways were built in the nineteenth century,

ENDINGS

1. for a completely different reason: lack of fish.

2. fresh sea fish could easily be bought in all British towns.

3. even on the coldest days of the year.

4. so today’s chip shops use new paper or styrofoam cartons.

5. and most are much closer.

6. fishermen in Britain and other countries protest, because jobs are lost.