SerranoNotes+-+Chap+5+and+6+Clauses+-+Review+Quiz+1


 * Part I Directions: Correct the following sentences for grammar errors. Some may not contain any.**
 * 1) The sun rises and the sun sets.
 * 2) I will liberate those not liberated. I will release those not released. I will relieve those unrelieved. And set living beings in nirvana.
 * 3) Just like a dream experience, whatever things I enjoy will become a memory. Whatever is past will not be seen again.
 * 4) That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.
 * 5) I believe I am a reflection, like the moon on water. When you see me and I try to be a good man, you see yourself.
 * 6) A new, cosmopolitan humanism can be built above, and, beyond Western illuminist abstractions, a humanism of real people based on the concrete resistance to the actual human suffering imposed by the real axis of evil: neoliberalism plus war.
 * 7) This political logic is based on the supposition of total power and knowledge, and on the radical rejection of alternatives; it is ultra-conservative in that it aims to reproduce infinitely the status quo.
 * 8) Any human knowledge is inherently and infinitely flawed, hence that perception is reality is the arrogant conclusion of the human framework of thinking that claims total knowledge and power over the cosmos.
 * 9) During the last hundred years, the West has experienced three versions of this logic, and, therefore, seen three versions of the end of history: Stalinism, with its logic of insuperable efficiency of the plan, Nazism, with its logic of racial superiority, and neoliberalism, with its logic of insuperable efficiency of the market.
 * Part II Directions: Transform the following sentences as specified, with minimum changes.**
 * 1) Change one of the clauses into an **essential adjective dependent clause**: Thus by virtue that has collected through all I have done may the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away.
 * 2) Change the subject clause into an **appositive clause**: That this new situation forces the globalization from below to re-think itself was written by Santos.
 * 3) Change the adverbial time clause into **adverbial place clause**: I ran when he walked.
 * Part III Directions: Identify the following dependent clauses as noun, adjective, and adverbial, and by their sub-groups.**
 * 1) If the forces of friction did not exist, the world would have been completely different.
 * 2) The losing team cheered as if they were winning.
 * 3) Whither it’s that place, do not look around.
 * 4) I popped six bags in order that trouble would carry to home.
 * 5) That I may be happy I will see.
 * 6) Although my computer is older than his, mine plays computer games better.
 * 7) As we move down the listing of this table, we come to increasingly nonstandard cases until finally, with case, there is no element of agency at all, so that there is no question of risk-taking, and no element of decision.
 * 8) In other words, volunteers were supposed to stay out of political crises altogether, acting like the volunteers in the Dominican Republic during a coup in 1965, when they served as nurses and medics during the street battles, attending to both rebels and government supporters.
 * 9) Ambassador Lyman believes that one reason why China is able to win Africa over is because western companies are often pressured to withdraw or restricted to operate or invest in parts of Africa that are unstable.
 * Part IV Directions: Classify the following sentences as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.**
 * 1) I am who I am, and you will not define nor limit my identity to my nationality.
 * 2) You began it for me; so, I will end it for you.
 * 3) The question is not why I produce trouble but rather how trouble produces me.
 * 4) If there is a one-in-three chance of x and a one-in-four chance of y, the probability of both x and y occurring is one in twelve.
 * Part V Directions: Underline separate clauses, classify them as independent or dependent, and indicate for the subjects and verbs in each clause.**
 * 1) But we often feel instinctively that if the two events “fit together” in some scenario the chance of both is greater, not less.
 * 2) Human beings who spend their lives studying the state of the world, in other words, are poorer forecasters than dart-throwing monkeys, who would have distributed their picks evenly over the three choices.
 * 3) This political logic is based on the supposition of total power and knowledge, and on the radical rejection of alternatives; it is ultra-conservative in that it aims to reproduce infinitely the status quo.
 * 4) Narrative ethicists, such as Stanley Hauerwas and Alasdair MacIntyre, raise a related form of the charge of imperialism, namely, that a human rights ethic is a form of Western Enlightenment imperialism that seeks to impose a universal, rational, storyless ethic on the whole human race.
 * 5) These claims are a consequence of the permanent provocation of power and freedom in biopolitics, and stand as testament to the “strategic reversibility” of power relations.