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6. Chan doesn’t like loud music, and his brother doesn’t either.

Chan doesn’t like loud music, and .

7. The children enjoy baseball, and so do their parents.

The children enjoy baseball, and .

8. I’ll have time to help you, and Sally will too.

I’ll have time to help you, and .

11 EDIT. Read the fact file about the saguaro cactus. Find and correct seven more errors with
conjunctions and too, so, either, and neither.

Fact File: The Saguaro Cactus
but
• Saguaros can reach a height of over 40 feet (12.2 meters), so in their first ten
years they only grow around one inch (2.54 cm).

• The fruit of the saguaro is red, so it contains around 2000 seeds. It is very tasty,
but it is popular with local people.

• Saguaros grow arms, but they have room for a lot of flowers and fruit. This gives
them a better chance to reproduce.
• The largest known saguaro is in Maricopa County, Arizona, in the
United States. It is 45.3 feet (13.8 m) tall and 10 feet (3.1 m) wide.

• Saguaros live in the desert. There are hardly any rivers there, and it doesn’t rain
The saguaro is a type
of cactus plant that much neither. When it rains, saguaros store the rainwater inside their stems.
grows in the Sonoran
Desert of California, • Old western movies show saguaros in Texas and New Mexico, but Texas
Arizona, and Mexico.
does not have any saguaros, and New Mexico does either.
• The saguaro used to provide both food or shelter for Native Americans.

• Bats help spread saguaro seeds, and birds do so.

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