Complete the 12 sentences below. Choose the best answer for each one.
1The dataset was amended after the analysis had already begun; ............... complicates the interpretation of every trend line.
Wrong!
Use "This" to package the whole preceding situation as the next clause's theme, not merely to refer to a single noun.
2............... the archive is broadly reliable, several gaps in the correspondence still distort the chronology.
Wrong!
"Although" makes the reliability of the archive a concessive theme that sets up the contrasting main-clause claim.
3The reform passed through a public consultation and then a committee stage; ............... took six months, not the consultation.
Wrong!
"The latter" refers to the second of the two named processes, so it correctly identifies the committee stage.
4The spreadsheet was incomplete, but the handwritten log was ............... reliable, so the auditors based their reconstruction on it.
Wrong!
"more" is required because the sentence says the auditors trusted the handwritten log instead of the spreadsheet.
5The legal objections can be addressed in committee; ............... the proposal itself, its political viability remains doubtful.
Wrong!
"As for" introduces the proposal as a resumed topic before the sentence comments on its political viability.
6The interim findings were circulated in May; the final report ............... by three external analysts and submitted in July.
Wrong!
"was drafted" keeps the report as the sentence theme while presenting the analysts as the agents in a by-phrase.
7Analysts had expected an immediate response, but ............... was only after the vote that investors began to withdraw.
Wrong!
"it" forms the cleft pattern that focuses the timing of the announcement: it was after the vote that investors reacted.
8The scheme does not alter liability; ..............., it changes only how liability is reported.
Wrong!
"In other words" signals that the second clause restates and clarifies the first rather than opposing it.
9The first experiment showed a delayed response, and the second showed a weaker one; ............... suggest that the original model overstates the effect.
Wrong!
"These findings" summarises the two preceding results as the theme of the next claim.
10The sample is small; ..............., the control group was not randomly selected.
Wrong!
"Moreover" adds a second reason for caution; the new sentence does not present a result of the first reason.
11The revised budget removed the deficit; ............... did the board approve the expansion.
Wrong!
"Only then" is a restrictive fronted theme and therefore licenses the inversion "did the board approve".
12The company has resisted a takeover, ............... founders still hold a minority stake.
Wrong!
"whose" links the company to its founders, allowing the next clause to keep developing the same participant theme.
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- The dataset was amended after the analysis had already begun; This complicates the interpretation of every trend line.
- Although the archive is broadly reliable, several gaps in the correspondence still distort the chronology.
- The reform passed through a public consultation and then a committee stage; The latter took six months, not the consultation.
- The spreadsheet was incomplete, but the handwritten log was more reliable, so the auditors based their reconstruction on it.
- The legal objections can be addressed in committee; As for the proposal itself, its political viability remains doubtful.
- The interim findings were circulated in May; the final report was drafted by three external analysts and submitted in July.
- Analysts had expected an immediate response, but it was only after the vote that investors began to withdraw.
- The scheme does not alter liability; In other words, it changes only how liability is reported.
- The first experiment showed a delayed response, and the second showed a weaker one; These findings suggest that the original model overstates the effect.
- The sample is small; Moreover, the control group was not randomly selected.
- The revised budget removed the deficit; Only then did the board approve the expansion.
- The company has resisted a takeover, whose founders still hold a minority stake.