Exercise 3
Read the following passage. Some sections are underlined. The underlined sections may be one of the following:
- Incomplete sentences
- Run-on sentences
- Correctly written sentences that should be combined
- Correctly written sentences that do not need to be rewritten
From the choices provided, select the best way to write each underlined section. If the underlined section needs no change, select the choice "Correct as is."
(1) For thousands of years, people in desert regions have made adobe buildings, they made them out of mud. Adobe, or sun-dried clay, is formed into bricks to create dwellings. (2) First, sandy clay is mixed with water and then bits of straw or grass are added. The straw or grass helps the mud to stick together. (3) To create the bricks. The mixture is set into wooden forms and left to solidify. It may take several days for the bricks to cure, or harden. (4) The hardened bricks are then baked in the sun. They are baked in the sun for about two weeks. In the desert, there is little rain or freezing weather to melt or crack the hardened mud houses.
1. For thousands of years, people in desert regions have made adobe buildings, they made them out of mud.
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For thousands of years, people in desert regions have made adobe buildings. They made them out of mud.
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For thousands of years, people in desert regions have made adobe buildings. Out of mud.
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For thousands of years, people in desert regions have made adobe buildings out of mud.
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Correct as is
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2. First, sandy clay is mixed with water and then bits of straw or grass are added.
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First, sandy clay is mixed with water and then bits of straw or grass added.
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First, sandy clay is mixed with water. And then bits of straw or grass are added.
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First, sandy clay is mixed with water, added then are bits of straw or grass.
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Correct as is
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3. To create the bricks. The mixture is set into wooden forms and left to solidify.
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To create the bricks the mixture is set. Into wooden forms and left to solidify.
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To create the bricks, the mixture is set into wooden forms and left to solidify.
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To create the bricks, the mixture is set it goes into wooden forms and is left to solidify.
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Correct as is
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4. The hardened bricks are then baked in the sun. They are baked in the sun for about two weeks.
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The hardened bricks are then baked in the sun for about two weeks.
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The hardened bricks are then baked in the sun, and the sun bakes them for about two weeks.
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The hardened bricks are then in the sun for about two weeks baked.
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The hardened bricks are then baked in the sun that is for about two weeks.
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