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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 32
MATCHING

Match each sentence beginning with its ending.

BEGINNINGS

A Both Europeans and Americans play football;

B The American model has spread to other countries of the world,

C Invented at Springfield College, Massachusetts, in 1891,

D Whole teams of sportsmen did not often travel around the world

ENDINGS

1. basketball is quite certainly an “American game”.

2. as it was too complicated and expensive.

3. they did not include the wide variety of sports that they now cover.

4. but American sports have not.

5. knowing that a US team will almost always win.

6. but surprisingly they do not play it in the same way.