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ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS 233
can be handed back to their authors, and students can discuss their results. Pairs or groups of students can also be asked to come up with as manysubsti- tutes as they can for each filled-in word.
Version 1.
(1) When faced with the need to identify an odor (smell), people are imprecise and .
(3) Even with corrections from the experimenters, the probability that the same familiar smell would be recognized remained low.
(5) progress has also led to growth in trade in ma- terials (such as steel) and goods (such as food) by making transporting goods less costly.
(7) Clearly, international trade policies of a country also affect and decisions made by its government and often
lead to important changes in the market place. Version 2.
(2) The experiment that resulted in a lowidentification of 20 recog- nizable smells required participants to note as many odors as they could.
(4) the most change in the U.S. economy over the past six decades has been the increasing importance of international trade and finance.
(6) Goods produced by modern technology are often and easy to transport because they have lowweight and compact size.
An important note: If this practice is repeated two or three times per week during the term, the number of new vocabulary items from the sen- tences will continue to grow. To provide students an opportunity to review vocabulary learned earlier, sentences can include a growing number of combinations: those with new items, as well as the vocabulary studied earlier in the week or during the previous week or two.
(2) What Is Your Function?
Modifiers are slippery characters because they occupy various slots in the sentence structure (see chap. 4) and, depending on their position, have the functions of modifying nouns, verbs, entire sentences, or other construc- tions. The practice with identifying the functions of modifiers can be partic- ularly suitable for pair or group work. When the exercise is completed, pairs or groups can compare their results and discuss them.
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