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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 34
MATCHING

Match each sentence beginning with its ending.

BEGINNINGS

A Though many American Indians still call themselves “Indians”,

B Huge areas of land that were stolen from the Indian nations,

C In fact, Buffalo Bill was one of the first men in America to realize

D Bill made his peace with the Indians

ENDINGS

1. but by then the West was already changing dramatically.

2. and realised that the buffalos had to be protected.

3. the expression “native Americans” is considered to be more correct.

4. that white Americans and Indians could, and should, work together.

5. have been given back to them.

6. and recruited many famous Indians to work with him.