Complete the 12 sentences below. Choose the best answer for each one.
1The board appointed a committee ............... the merger to reassure anxious investors.
Wrong!
Use "overseeing" because the committee is the body that will actively oversee the merger.
2The trial will include only patients ............... in the national database before 2022.
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Use "registered" because the patients are the people who have been registered in the database, not the people doing the registering.
3............... the audit, the consultants refused to endorse the figures.
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Use "Having completed" to show that the audit was finished before the consultants refused to endorse the figures.
4..............., the analyst switches effortlessly between Mandarin and English during negotiations.
Wrong!
Use "Raised in a bilingual household" because the analyst received the action; the reduced clause means 'who was raised'.
5The report compares the options ............... to small suppliers under the revised procurement rules.
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Use "available" because adjective relative clauses can reduce directly after the noun: 'the options that are available'.
6Several firms ............... in Seoul submitted joint proposals for the infrastructure project.
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Use "based" because the firms are located in Seoul; the reduced relative means 'firms that are based in Seoul'.
7Dr. Mensah, ..............., warned that the currency peg was becoming unsustainable.
Wrong!
Use "a former central bank governor" because a non-defining 'who is' clause can be reduced to an appositive noun phrase between commas.
8The journalist cited a report ............... during the televised debate.
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Use "challenging the minister's account" because the report actively challenged the account and the relative pronoun plus finite verb is not a reduction.
9The facility became the first laboratory in the region ............... under the stricter accreditation scheme.
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Use "to meet the new standards" because 'the first' is commonly followed by an infinitive reduced relative.
10Please send the manuscripts ............... by the ethics panel before Friday.
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Use "to be reviewed" because the manuscripts receive the review; they do not review anything themselves.
11The legal team highlighted several provisions ............... overseas subsidiaries if the bill passes.
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Use "that may affect" because the modal 'may' cannot be omitted in a participial reduction without changing the meaning from possibility to actual effect.
12............... access to the archive, the researchers appealed to the review board.
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Use "Having been denied" because the grant applicants received the rejection before they appealed.
Exercise complete
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Answers
- The board appointed a committee overseeing the merger to reassure anxious investors.
- The trial will include only patients registered in the national database before 2022.
- Having completed the audit, the consultants refused to endorse the figures.
- Raised in a bilingual household , the analyst switches effortlessly between Mandarin and English during negotiations.
- The report compares the options available to small suppliers under the revised procurement rules.
- Several firms based in Seoul submitted joint proposals for the infrastructure project.
- Dr. Mensah, a former central bank governor , warned that the currency peg was becoming unsustainable.
- The journalist cited a report challenging the minister’s account during the televised debate.
- The facility became the first laboratory in the region to meet the new standards under the stricter accreditation scheme.
- Please send the manuscripts to be reviewed by the ethics panel before Friday.
- The legal team highlighted several provisions that may affect overseas subsidiaries if the bill passes.
- Having been denied access to the archive, the researchers appealed to the review board.