Exercise 31 : Nouns Functioning as Adjectives
1. Sam’s new apartment is in
a twelve-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-shelve 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 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 of 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.(B) Wild Take
3.(D) Gues Speaker
4.(A) To Review
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.(A) Was
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.(D) Components
30.(D) To Lie On
31.(B) Not Giving
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.(C) Whom
41.(D) All Her
42.(B) Because Of
43.(D) An
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
