Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Grammar in EAP


Grammar in EAP
Exercise 1: Passives
1.      Someone had reported the theft to the police.
2.      The theft had been reported to the police
3.      The charity has been given $1000.
4.      The program will be demonstrated to the students
5.      The procedure was explained to me.
6.      The large areas of forest are being destroyed every day.
7.      The land next to the university has been bought
8.      I hope all the marking will have been completed by tomorrow.
9.      The library has been finished by the time you arrive
10. Results are expected better soon.
11. Their complaints should be sent to the head of department.
12. The lecture had been had to postpone because of illness.
13. The fire could have been caused by an electrical fault
14. Next year’s conference is been going to hold in Birmingham
15. This fact was known very well.
16. The new lecture theatre was opened only last month
17. The answers must be written on the examination paper in black ink.
18. This type of computer are now being manufactured in Korea.
19. The problem should be investigated


Exercise 2: Passives
1.      Prices are stable and they are maintained in this way over generations.
2.      Tropical forests are defined here as 'evergreen or partly evergreen forests'.
3.      Methane is distinguished because it has a large number of significant sources.
4.      The old dilator procedure was reformed in 1852.
5.      In 1916  the Disease Regulations was passed.
6.      It was only in the 1930s, in Oxford, that lysozyme was isolated and crystallised.
7.      these findings are replicated by the recent local crime surveys
8.      The date 753 BC was eventually generally accepted
9.      A range of rival theories is considered next
10. The subject is required by the rule to answer if the statement is true or false.
11. the examination should be conducted in the greatest possible privacy.
12. The discussion  will be confined to general principles of treatment.
13. Many genes were transcribed and many proteins are synthesised.
14. A further class of solutions in which  the main equation is separated in yet another way has been given by Yurtse.

Exercise 3: Passives

1.   It was understood that Mr Smith was willing to meet the British Prime Minister.
2.   It is considered that this surgeon is a brilliant practitioner.
3.   When Chain came in on Sunday morning and saw the result, it is said that he danced.
4.   It is claimed that the drug produced no undesirable side effects.
5.   It is expected that the electricity supply industry will be running into surplus capacity by next year.
6.   It is now thought that only a small fraction of the nitrous oxide emitted to the atmosphere each year comes from fossil-fuel use, primarily coal.
7.   At the present time, It is believed that the only problem with daytime sleep is that it is too short.
8.   Although it is expected that the patient to pay for his treatment, he will be reimbursed via the state medical insurance scheme.
9.   If one person chooses to cause serious injury to another, it should be presumed that he or she realises that there is always a risk of death.
10.                It is also alleged that he amassed wealth by exploiting his high credit with the Palmyra court.

Exercise 4: Gap-fill


Your score is 80%.

Some of your answers are incorrect. Incorrect answers have been left in place for you to change.
Top of Form
A total of 48 native speakers of Chinese and 57 native speakers of Japanese participated in the study. Of the 105 subjects, 72 were enrolled in pre-academic intensive English programs, and 33 were enrolled in basic writing or freshman composition courses as fully matriculated students. The subjects were drawn from four institutions: Georgia State University; Southern Illinois University; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the University of Washington.
All 105 subjects were high school graduates, and almost all 
 from high school in their native countries. Of the 46 subjects with undergraduate degrees, only 1  that degree from a U.S. university. In addition, 10 subjects  graduate degrees, three of which were obtained at a U.S. university. The average length of time that subjects had been in the U.S. was 11½ months, with a range of 1 month to 17 years.
Subjects’ language proficiency 
varied from low-intermediate to advanced. Subjects were assigned to one of three language proficiency levels on the basis of either information about their placement in intensive courses or the criteria required for admission into regular curricula. The low-intermediate group, which consisted of 8 subjects, was defined as the midrange of intensive programs, with TOEFL scores in the 420-480 range or Michigan Test scores between 42 and 60. The high-intermediate group, with 64 subjects, was defined as the highest level of intensive programs, with TOEFL scores in the 480-520 range or Michigan Test scores between 60 and 78. The advanced group, with 33 subjects, consisted of those subjects enrolled in regular curriculum classes with TOEFL scores above 525 or Michigan test scores above 80.

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