ENG101 English Comprehension Assignment No.3 Spring May 2012

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ENG101 English Comprehension Assignment No.3 Spring 2012


Assignment No. 3 (Spring 2012)

English Comprehension (ENG101)
Due date: 06-06-2012
Total Marks: 15


Objectives:

• To enable students to learn and implement grammatical categories and operations appropriately.
• To build a correct language production sense in students.


Instructions:

• Late assignments will not be accepted.
• Plagiarism will never be tolerated. Plagiarism occurs when a student uses work done by someone else as if it was his or her own or just copy pastes the material from handouts or any internet source without rephrasing it in his/her own words.



Q1. Correct the grammatical mistakes in the following sentences. (5 marks)
1. No less than fifty men were injured in the accident.
2. He is the taller of the two brothers.
3. He would make a better engineer than a doctor.
4. I do not like such movies, which are immoral.
5. Poultry has given him great profit.

Q2. Fill in blanks by using the appropriate connectives. (5 marks)

1. This is _____ a heavy chair that it is not easy to carry. (much, such)
2. I was ___ pleased about the letter that I ran to tell my mother. (so, very)
3. The news is ____wonderful to be believed. (too, to)
4. The main reason I left early was ________ I was bored. (if, because)
5. I was reaching down to pick up my cap just _____ I saw the two snakes. (when, then)

Q3. Identify the given statements as Complete Sentence or Sentence Fragment.
(5 marks)


1. Several small shops went out of business.
2. The nurse pierced my arm four times with a syringe.
3. As it was her first airplane ride.
4. Because there was a gas leak.
5. The small child was always active.