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Solved Examples

I. Rearrange the following words and phrases to form sentences.

(1)

(a) we tend to preserve / good-looking and cute / we find / only the creatures
We tend to preserve only the creatures we find good-looking and cute.

(b) find repulsive / about those / we don’t care
We don’t care about those we find repulsive.
(c) was voted / with a permanent miserable frown / the world’s ugliest animal / in 2013,
blobfish , / on its face
In 2013, blobfish, with a permanent miserable frown on its face, was voted the world’s
ugliest animal.

(d) overfishing by humans / facing extinction due to / it has much / about as it is / to
be miserable
It has much to be miserable about as it is facing extinction due to overfishing by
humans.

(2)
(a) as the day when / 20 July 1969 / in our history books / humans first landed / has
gone down / on moon

20 July 1969 has gone down in our history books as the day when humans first landed
on moon.

(b) and was the / however, wasn’t / that feat, / years of work / achieved overnight /
culmination of
That feat, however, wasn’t achieved overnight and was the culmination of years of
work.
(c) common objective / it was built on/ geared towards a / successive successes and failures

It was built on successive successes and failures, geared towards a common objective.
(d) astronauts to the moon / the mission to send / in 1961 / was tasked to NASA
The mission to send astronauts to the moon was tasked to NASA in 1961.

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