Controlling Scope with Clause Order

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Question formats

Sentence reordering

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Read the complete context. Check both the meaning and the grammar, including word forms, collocations and links between sentences.

1. Question 1 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The evidence
   • does not necessarily
   • establish
   • falls within the exception.
   • that every case
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The evidence does not necessarily establish that every case falls within the exception.

   Not necessarily limits the force of establish, preserving a possible universal result.

2. Question 2 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • Only
   • be waived.
   • if explicit consent is obtained
   • may
   • the restriction
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   Only if explicit consent is obtained may the restriction be waived.

   Only if triggers inversion in the main clause and marks a necessary condition.

3. Question 3 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The concession
   • alone,
   • applies to the wording
   • not
   • to the underlying principle.
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The concession applies to the wording alone, not to the underlying principle.

   Alone restricts the concession to wording before the explicit exclusion.

4. Question 4 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • Not
   • all of the objections
   • as merely semantic.
   • be dismissed
   • can
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   Not all of the objections can be dismissed as merely semantic.

   Not all denies universal dismissibility without asserting none can be dismissed.

5. Question 5 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The claim
   • holds only
   • insofar as
   • remain defensible.
   • the relevant assumptions
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The claim holds only insofar as the relevant assumptions remain defensible.

   Only insofar as limits validity to the specified assumptions.

6. Question 6 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The report
   • endorses the proposal
   • neither
   • nor
   • rules out later reconsideration.
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The report neither endorses the proposal nor rules out later reconsideration.

   Neither...nor coordinates two base-verb phrases after report.

7. Question 7 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • At most
   • be authorised
   • five exceptions
   • in any calendar year.
   • may
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   At most five exceptions may be authorised in any calendar year.

   At most sets an inclusive maximum before the passive permission.

8. Question 8 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The statement
   • as far as
   • but it does not settle the issue.
   • is true
   • it goes,
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The statement is true as far as it goes, but it does not settle the issue.

   As far as it goes marks limited truth before the contrast.

9. Question 9 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The finding
   • is compatible with
   • is uniquely established.
   • none of which
   • several explanations,
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The finding is compatible with several explanations, none of which is uniquely established.

   The non-defining relative denies unique establishment for each explanation.

10. Question 10 · Sentence reordering

    Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

    Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

    Sentence parts

    • The review
    • found no evidence
    • proof that it could not do so.
    • rather than
    • that the practice caused harm,
    Check answers and explanations

    Correct order

    The review found no evidence that the practice caused harm, rather than proof that it could not do so.

    Rather than contrasts absence of evidence with the stronger impossibility claim.

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