Grammar choices 2 pp. 6-9
Exercise 4:
1. Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death nationwide.
2. Up to 90% of lung cancer deaths are attributed to smoking.
3. Previous research has shown that exposure to secondhand smoke increases the likelihood that children will
become teenage smokers.
4. A team led by Dr. Arthur Brody of the University of California, Los Angeles, set out to study how secondhand
smoke affects the human brain.
5. The method depends on a special tracer molecule that binds specifically to nAChRs [nicotinic acetylcholine
receptors].
6. The researchers found that nAChRs in the brains of both smokers and non-smokers became occupied by
nicotine after 1 hour of exposure to secondhand smoke.
7. This study gives concrete evidence to support policies that ban smoking in public places.
Exercise 5:
2. Environment problems [face] [share] that citizens in the United States face share one major similarity with those
in Southeast Asia: both movements [are] are almost always addressing a negative change to the status quo.
3. One problem [tends] [is] that tends to be very different between the cases in Southeast Asia as compared to
cases in the United States is this idea of land use vs. land preservation.
4. The second way [has] that U.S. environmental justice problems [differ] often differ from those in Southeast Asia
has to do with the nature of the problems themselves.
5. Many of the victims [lose] of environmental injustices in Southeast Asia lose their land, their homes, or their
occupation when they give way to government or industry.
6. The all-important link [is] between the causes of environmental justice issues both domestically and in
developing countries is that industry and government often have shared interest in pursuing the path of least
resistance.
Exercise 6:
2. In conclusion, we discuss what these findings imply
We conclude with a discussion of the implication of these finds.
3. If we use a numerical approach and study women’s representation, we might establish the proportion of all
characters who are female.
A number approach to the representation of women might establish the proportions of all characters who are
female.
4. Future research ought to link ways that gender representation is measured to movie reviews.
Future research ought to link the ways of measure of gender representation to movie reviews.