Basic English Sentence Patterns

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 Exercise 4 
6. come, are, disturbs, is, is, affects 
7. come, is, use, produce, affect, produce, have 
8. produces, produces 
9. lives, plans 
10. 
is,
11. 
are, transport 
12. 
are, make 
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Exercise 5 
The following sentences are taken from Understanding Integrated Science for the 
21
st
 Century Book 1A by Aristo Educational Press Limited. 
 
Decide whether the verb should be singular or plural. Then fill in each blank with the 
correct verb given in brackets. 
e.g. There are (is, are) twenty-two country parks in Hong Kong. 
1. One of the ways to find answers ______________ to carry out an investigation. 
(be) 
2. A scientist ____________, _____________ and ____________. Scientists 
____________ and _____________ to arrive at a conclusion. (record, analyse, 
think, discuss, try) 
3. There _____________ variations within the same kind of living things.
4. There ________________ more than a million kinds of animals found in the 
world.
5. There _______________ about 350 000 different kinds of plants found in the 
world.
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Answers 
 
Exercise 5 
1. is 
2. records, analyses, thinks, discuss, try 
3. are 
4. are 
5. are 
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Exercise 6 
The following sentences are taken from Understanding Integrated Science for the 
21
st
 Century Book 1B by Aristo Educational Press Limited. 
 
Decide whether the verb should be singular or plural. Then fill in each blank with the 
correct verb given in brackets. 
e.g. There are (is, are) twenty-two country parks in Hong Kong. 
1. There __________ (is, are) many forms of energy. 
2. There __________ (is, are) about 17000 wind turbines in Clifornia in the USA.
3. There __________ (is, are) chemicals inside a dry cell.
4. In Hong Kong, there __________ (is, are) no natural lakes or big rivers.
5. There __________ (is, are) 92 elements in nature. 
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