Exercise 31.2, 31.3 and 31.4 for English Academic Writing

31.2 Single to plural or vice versa as instructed 

1 There are interesting PhD theses on water resources in the library. 

2 What was your main criterion in designing your survey? 

3 She was interested in a strange phenomenon connected with comets.

4 The hypotheses were never proved, as the data was incomplete.  

31.3 Matching the sentences with the most appropriate ending

1 We must never accept the notion that intelligence is connected to race. 

2 The task of choosing an analytical framework is an important stage in any research. 

3 The book expresses his viewpoint on the role of the United Nations in times of war. 

4 Tannen has always made her stance on gender and language use very clear.

5 Consumers have different perceptions of what low price and high quality mean.

6 The report laid out a new model of family healthcare which changed everything.

7 Physicists developed the concept of dark matter to explain certain observations 

  

31.4 Answering the questions based on the text 

1 Autonomy 

2 Humanities  

3 Profound

4 Consciousness

5 Moral 

6 Grounding