Worksheet III

Worksheet that help you final exam on basic writing skills
I. Write sentences based on their function as:

1. Declarative -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
2. Interrogative -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
3. Imperative --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
4. Exclamation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
II. Identify the following sentences based on their structure, as simple or compound or
complex.
1. Senait studied hard, but she scored only ‘C’. ----------------------------------------------------
2. She likes to play guitar and piano. …………………………………………..
3. He can buy whatever he wants since he is rich. -----------------------------------------------
III. Combine the following pairs of sentences using the appropriate conjunctions.
1. Alemayehu works hard.
Alemayehu is still poor. (however )
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2. Tiblets is tall.
Tiblets is fat. ( not only… but also )
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3. The students finished the last exam.
The students became so happy. ( so )
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4. The Nile Dam has started generating.
Ethiopia will offer electric power to neighboring countries. ( because )
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5. My mom does not like milk.

My mom does not like raw meat. ( neither … nor )
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V. Write the types of sentence errors of the following sentences from the given alternatives
below as: run on, agreement error, dangling modifier, sentence fragment
1. While I was driving on Churchill Road----------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Haile G/Selassie won a lot of gold medal as a result he became rich.------------------------------
3. Reading the traffic signal, the car stopped.-------------------------------------------------------------
4. Two oxen was sold fifty thousand each. ----------------------------------------------------------------
Paragraph skills
I. Re-arrange the following jumbled sentences in the way the make a coherent paragraph. (8 %)
1. A. During that visit, I took some gifts considering the upcoming Ehiopian X- Mass.
B. I visited my mom yesterday.
C. As a result, she blessed me a lot.
D. After that I gave them to her.
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2. A. The good ones are always preferred by humans than the others.
B. However, we should not ignore that we learn a lot of things from the bad ones that make
our life good.
C. No one knows what will happen exactly to the future except God.
D. But, it is believed that the future holds both good and bad experiences.
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II. Read the following paragraphs and identify them based on their types
1. The incident was planned one Thursday night when I was out with my friends. I was still going to
school once in a while, but most of my friends weren't. We spent our days on the streets, talking,
showing off, sometimes shoplifting a little or shaking people down for a few dollars. My friends
and I were close, maybe because life hadn't been very good to any of us. On this night, we were
drinking wine and vodka on the corner. For some reason, we all felt tense and restless. One of us
came up with the idea of robbing one of the old people who lived in the high-rise close by. We
would just knock him or her over, grab the money, and party with it.
2. The young woman in the picture has a face that resembles my own in many ways. Her face is a
bit more oval than mine, but the softly waving brown hair around it is identical. The small,
straight nose is the same model I was born with. My great-grandmother's mouth is closed, yet
there is just the slightest hint of a smile on her full lips. I know that if she had smiled, she would
have shown the same wide grin and down-curving “smile lines” that appear in my own snapshots.
The most haunting feature in the photo, however, is my great grandmother's eyes. They are an
exact duplicate of my own large, dark brown ones. Her brows are plucked into thin lines, which
are like two pencil strokes added to highlight those fine, luminous eyes.
3. The pressure for teenagers to work is great, and not just because of the economic plight in the
world today. Much of it is peer pressure to have a little bit of freedom and independence, and to
have their own spending money. The concern we have is when the part-time work becomes the
primary focus.” These are the words of Roxanne Bradshaw, educator and officer of the National
Education Association. Many people argue that working can be a valuable experience for the
young. However, working more than about fifteen hours a week is harmful to adolescents because
it reduces their involvement with school, encourages a materialistic and expensive lifestyle, and
increases the chance of having problems with drugs and alcohol.
4. … Next, prepare for your exercise session. To begin with, get yourself ready by not eating or
drinking anything before exercising. Why risk an upset stomach? Then, dress comfortably in
something that allows you to move freely. Since you'll be in your own home, there's no need to
invest in a high-fashion dance costume. A loose T-shirt and shorts are good. A bathing suit is
great in summer, and in winter long underwear is warm and comfortable.
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III. What do the following ways of organizing effective paragraph mean? Discuss them using
the space provided. ( 3points)
1. Spatial
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2. Chronological
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3. Emphatic
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I. Write sentences based on their function as:

5. My mom does not like milk.

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