B Answers will vary.

C Answers will vary.

PRACTICE 3: Analyzing Topic

Sentences (page 41)
Group 1
2. College students face many challenges.
3. Living with your parents has certain advantages.
4. Successful student athletes have several
characteristics.
5. Small colleges are better than big universities
for several reasons.
Group 2
1. Successful managers share several
CHAPTER 2 (pages 34–69) characteristics.
2. New teachers must master several skills.
PRACTICE 1: Using Clustering to Get
Ideas (page 37) 3. Living with your parents has certain
disadvantages.

A Answers will vary. 4. Good test-takers share several characteristics.

B Answers will vary. 5. Big universities are better than small ones for
three reasons.
Questions about the Model (page 38)
1. The topic is flight attendants. PRACTICE 4: Recognizing Topic
2. It says that good flight attendants have three Sentences (page 42)
important characteristics.
Paragraph 2. Libraries are busy from morning until
3. Three. The characteristics are (1) friendly,
night in my city.
(2) self-confident, and (3) strong.
4. It repeats the three characteristics. Paragraph 3. A good place to volunteer in your
community is a library.
PRACTICE 2: Looking at Intensifiers Paragraph 4. Over the past 20 years, many changes
(page 39) have taken place in libraries.
A Students should underline and circle these words
in the Writing Model: PRACTICE 5: Choosing Topic
2 First of all, they are very friendly.
Sentences (page 44)
A
4 Sometimes passengers are quite afraid of flying.
Paragraph 2. a Paragraph 3. b Paragraph 4. c
8 They can give clear instructions to passengers,
B Answers will vary. Possible answers include:
and they must be rather firm so that passengers obey
Paragraph 2. Good teachers have three main
them.
characteristics.
9 This characteristic is especially important in Paragraph 3. There are three kinds of shoppers.
emergencies.
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10 Third, good flight attendants are fairly strong.

12 They also have to open and close the airplane’s

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PRACTICE 6: Supporting Sentences Paragraph 2. In conclusion, I like being a
(page 48) salesperson because I enjoy working
Answers will vary and can be in phrase or sentence with people, solving problems, and
form. Possible answers include: learning new things.
2. a. placement tests B Answers will vary based on students’ answers in
b. midterm tests Practice 6.
c. final exams
3. a. Rent and food are free. PRACTICE 11: Outlining (page 57)
b. Parent does laundry and cleans room. Answers will vary.
c. Parents are available to give advice.
4. a. very motivated
Try It Out! (page 57)
Answers will vary.
b. organize time well
c. work well on a team
PRACTICE 12: Identifying Simple and
5. a. There are fewer students, so it is easier to Compound Sentences (page 59)
meet people.
b. Classes are smaller. A
c. It’s easier to get to know your instructors. 3. Our parents sat on the simple S VV
grass and watched.
PRACTICE 7: Listing-Order Transition
Signals (page 50) 4. We played games compound S V,
such as hide-and-seek or
A 2. Second, S VV
3. Third, and tag, or we just sat
4. also on the grass and told
B Answers will vary. Possible answers include: stories.
2. Second, / In addition, /Also,
5. We also caught fireflies. simple SV
3. also
4. In addition, 6. We put the fireflies compound S V,
5. , also and
into a glass jar, and our
SV
father punched air holes
PRACTICE 8: Editing for Unity (page 51)
Paragraph 1. Also cross out: However, some Boston in the metal lid.
residents complain about noisy or irresponsible 7. My sisters were afraid compound S V,
college students. but
of most bugs, but they
Paragraph 2. Topic Sentence: Good nurses should SV
have at least five characteristics. loved fireflies.
Cross out: Doctors also need to stay calm in 8. We usually went to bed compound S V,
emergencies. but
at nine o’clock, but
There is a shortage of nurses today, so they earn SV
good salaries. sometimes we stayed
up later.
PRACTICE 9: Choosing Concluding
9. Around ten o’clock, our simple SS V
Sentences (page 54)
Paragraph 1. c Paragraph 2. a mother and father told
us to come inside.
PRACTICE 10: Writing Concluding 10. We always left the compound S V,
Sentences (page 55)
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fireflies outside, and we and S

A Answers will vary. Possible answers include:
brought our jars into the V
Paragraph 1. In summary, successful young fashion house.
designers are creative, they are hard-
working, and they have excellent
portfolios.

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B PRACTICE 13: Using And, But, Or,
Crime Scene Investigators and So (page 62)
1 Crime scene investigators must have several Paragraph 1
2. and 3. or 4. but 5. and 6. but / and
characteristics. 2 First, they can’t afford to miss Paragraph 2
ˇ 1. so 4. so 7. and 10. or
any evidence at a crime scene so they must be 2. or 5. and 8. or 11. but
,
3. but 6. so / and 9. so 12. and
extremely careful. 3 They must try hard to follow the
ˇ PRACTICE 14: Writing Compound
correct methods and they must accurately measure
, Sentences (page 63)
and record their findings. 4 Second, crime scene A Answers may vary slightly. Possible answers
include:
ˇ
investigations are complicated so investigators 2. There are several hundred languages in the
, world, but not all of them have a written form.
must be quite patient. 5 They must work slowly 3. Chinese is spoken by more people, but English
is spoken in more countries.
ˇ
and correctly and they can’t rush to complete a job. 4. There are about one million words in English,
, but most people use only about ten thousand of
6 Finally, they must be able to communicate well. them.
5. French used to be the language of international
7 They need to take detailed notes and turn them diplomacy, but now it is English.
6. International companies are growing, so/and
ˇ
into well-written reports so they must have excellent bilingual workers are always needed.
, 7. Young people should know a second language,
writing skills. 8 They also need to deal with police or they will be at a disadvantage in the
international job market.
ˇ
officers, judges, and lawyers so they must be able to
, B Answers will vary. Possible answers (indicated
by underlines) may include:
explain things clearly and effectively. 9 Crime scene 2. We are both tall, and we both have wavy hair.
ˇ
investigators have very interesting jobs but they
3. He is very creative, but he is very shy.
, 4. I was born a few minutes before my brother, so
I am older.
must be extremely careful, patient, and skilled at 5. Our mother used to tell us, “Stop fighting, or
you can’t watch TV for a week.”
communicating their ideas. 6. We fought a lot as children, but now we are
C good friends.
SENTENCE TYPE PATTERN
3. compound S V, and S VV PRACTICE 15: Correcting Run-ons and
4. compound S V, so S V Comma Splices (page 65)
Sentences 3 and 5 are correct.
5. compound S V, and S V Answers may vary. Possible answers include:
6. simple SV ✗ 2. Salespeople are usually very outgoing, and
7. compound S VV, so S V they like to talk with people. / Salespeople
8. compound S V, so S V are usually very outgoing. They like to talk
with people.
9. compound S V, but S V ✗ 4. News reporters need to work long hours
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under difficult conditions, but the job can be

well paid and full of excitement.
✗ 6. Vets need to love animals, but they must
have excellent people skills, too. / Vets need
to love animals. However, they must have
excellent people skills, too.
✗ 7. Successful politicians are usually very
charismatic, but voters need to trust them.

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✗ 8. I want to be a psychologist, but / so I have to
attend graduate school.
✗ 9. Architects can design homes for individuals,
or they can design buildings for companies.
✗ 10. Mechanics must work well with their hands,
but they also need to be good problem
solvers. / Mechanics must work well with
their hands. They also need to be good
problem solvers.

PRACTICE 16: Using Intensifiers

(page 66)
Answers will vary.

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