Exercise
31 : Nouns Functioning as Adjectives
1. Sam’s new apartment
is in a ten-story building.
2. We are language
teachers.
3. My parents saw a three-act
play last night.
4. The manager said
that it would be a two-day sale.
5. Hal bought a 79-piece
tool set.
6. Margie has a five-shelf
bookcase.
7. I need two 16-ounces-weighed
cans of tomatoes.
8. I’m looking for a six-quart
pressure cooker.
9. He is a specialist
at building brick houses.
10. Mrs. Jansen just
bought her daughter a ten speed bicycle.
Exercise
32 : Enough
1. There were not enough
people to have a meeting.
2. Allen has learned enough
French to study in France next year.
3. Do you have enough
time to talkshow?
4. She drove fast
enough to win the race.
5. Mike will graduate
from law school soon enough to join his father’s firm.
6. We arrived early
enough to have some coffee before class began.
7. It has rained hard
enough to flood the low-lying areas.
8. You should type slowly
enough that you will not make an error.
9. He has just enough
flour to bake that loaf of bread.
10. There are enough
books for each student to have one.
Exercise
33 : Because / Because Of
1. It was difficult to
deliver the letter because the sender had written the wrong address on the
envelope.
2. We decided to leave
early because the party was boring.
3. Rescue attempts were
temporarily halted because of the
bad weather.
4. They visited their
friends often because they enjoyed their company.
5. Paul cannot go to
the football game because of his
grade.
6. Marcella was awarded
a scholarship because of her
superior scholastic ability.
7. Nobody ventured
outdoors because of the
hurricane warnings.
8. We plan to spend our
vacation in the mountains because the air is purer
there.
9. We have to drive
around the bay because the bridge was destroyed in the storm.
10. The chickens have
died because
of the intense heat.
Exercise
34 : So / Such
1. The sun shone so
brightly that Maria had to put on her sunglasses
2. Dean was such
a powerful swimmer that he always won the race.
3. There were so
few students registered that the class was cancelled.
4. We had such
wonderful memories of that place that we decided to return.
5. We had so
good a time at the party that we hated to leave.
6. The benefit was so
great a success that the promoters decided to repeat it.
7. It was such
a nice day that we decided to go to the beach.
8. Jane looked so
sick that the nurse told her to go home.
9. Those were so
difficult assignments that we spent two weeks finishing them.
10. Ray called at such
an early hour that we weren’t awake yet.
11. The book looked so
interesting that he decided to read it.
12. He worked so
carefully that it took him a long time to complete the project.
13. We stayed in the
sun for such a long time that we became sunburned.
14. There were so
many people on the bus that we decided to walk.
15. The program was so
entertaining that nobody wanted to miss it.
Mini-Test
2 For Grammar Items 15 Through 20
1. (B) Ghost Stories
2. (C) His
3. (D) Gues
Speaker
4. (D) On it on out
5. (C) Five-Speed
6. (C) Enough Hot
7.
(C) Bricks Patio
8. (A) Such Enjoyable
9. (C) Supplies Enough
10. (A) So Interesting
11. (A) Wuold Have Studied
12. (A) Depositing
13. (D) In the country
14. (C) Should have Rehearsed
15. (B) Having Crossed
16. (B) Spending
17. (A) Living
18. (C) Louder
19. (D) Friend Joel
20. (A) To be Fishing
21. (A) Must Have Called
22. (A) Would Occur
23. (D) Uncontrollable
24. (B) So
25. (D) Will
26. (C) Ought Send
27. (A) Such Difficult
28. (A) Usually Arrives
29. (B) Ninety-days warranty
30. (D) To Lie On
31. (A) Badly
32. (A) Go
33. (B) Has
34. (D) Another Helping
35. (D) Twenty-Year-Old
36. (A) Despite
37. (B) Than
38. (B) Had To Arrived
39. (A) The Same
40. (B) Never would meet
41. (D) All Her
42. (B) Because Of
43. (C) One which requires
44. (A) The More
45. (B) So Good game
46. (D) The Must Return
47. (B) Many Foreigners
48. (A) Than
49. (B) The More Inferior
50. (A) Carefully
