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Connecting Words Exercise

July 3, 2020 - pdf

Fill in the blanks with an appropriate conjunction.

1. She was angry ……………………….. they hadn’t invited her to their party.

Correct! Wrong!

Because gives the reason.

2. ……………………………… you don’t deliver the project on time, they will cancel the contract.

Correct! Wrong!

If expresses a condition.

3. …………………………… he is lame, he walks with great difficulty.

Please select 2 correct answers

Correct! Wrong!

Both as and because give the reason for something.

4. He is neither intelligent ………………………. hardworking.

Correct! Wrong!

The correct conjunction is neither/nor.

5. I will not permit this …………………………… you kill me.

Correct! Wrong!

Even if refers to the future; even though refers to the past.

6. You cannot go ……………………….. you have finished that report.

Correct! Wrong!

Either could be used here with a slight difference of meaning.

7. ……………………………. she doesn’t like you, why are you still chasing her?

Correct! Wrong!

8. ………………………………… I worked day and night, I couldn’t meet the deadline.

Correct! Wrong!

Even though refers to the past.

9. She is …………………………. beautiful that every guy in the neighborhood wants to marry her.

Correct! Wrong!

Use so before an adjective.

10. The higher you go, ………………………… it gets.

Correct! Wrong!

The comparative is used in both clauses in this structure.

11. …………………………. she is very beautiful, she has hardly any friends.

Correct! Wrong!

Though is used to connect two contrasting ideas.

12. This is the house …………………………. Lincoln was born.

Correct! Wrong!

Where means in which.

Answers

1. She was angry because they hadn’t invited her to their party.

2. If you don’t deliver the project on time, they will cancel the contract.

3. As he is lame, he walks with great difficulty.

4. He is neither intelligent nor hardworking.

5. I will not permit this even if you kill me.

6. You cannot go until / unless you have finished that report.

7. If she doesn’t like you, why are you still chasing her?

8. Even though I worked day and night, I couldn’t meet the deadline.

9. She is so beautiful that every guy in the neighborhood wants to marry her.

10. The higher you go, the colder it gets.

11. Though she is very beautiful, she has hardly any friends.

12. This is the house where Lincoln was born.

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