Thursday, October 16, 2008

Using Resumptive, Summative, and Free Modifiers to Extend Your Sentences

1. Many different school systems are making a return to traditional education in the basics.
a. Many different school systems are making a return to traditional education in the basics, a traditional education which focuses on ethics.
b. Many different school systems are making a return to traditional education in the basics, a change that is not fully accepted by the students.
c. Many different school systems are making a return to traditional education in the basics, trying to teach the students in the old traditional ways.

2. Within the period of the last few years or so, automobile manufactures have been trying to meet new and more stringent quality control requirements.
a. Within the period of the last few years or so, automobile manufactures have been trying to meet new and more stringent quality control requirements, requirements that are suitable for the changes in the world.
b. Within the period of the last few years or so, automobile manufactures have been trying to meet new and more stringent quality control requirements, a challenge which aims to conserve gas in order to reduce air pollution.
c. Within the period of the last few years or so, automobile manufactures have been trying to meet new and more stringent quality control requirements, focusing on the environment issues.

3. The majority of young people in the world of today cannot even begin to have an understanding of the insecurity that a large number of older people had experienced during the Great Depression.
a. The majority of young people in the world of today cannot even begin to have an understanding of the insecurity that a large number of older people had experienced during they Great Depression, the insecurity that deeply effected everybody lived at that time.
b. The majority of young people in the world of today cannot even begin to have an understanding of the insecurity that a large number of older people had experienced during the Great Depression, anxiety in which those young people are not probably ready for any change in their lives' rhythms.
c. The majority of young people in the world of today cannot even begin to have an understanding of the insecurity that a large number of older people had experienced during the Great Depression, blinded by distractions of modern live.

4. The reasons for the cause of aging are a puzzle that has perplexed humanity for millennia.
a. The reasons for the cause of aging are a puzzle that has perplexed humanity for millennia, a puzzle that has still not been solved.
b. The reasons for the cause of aging are a puzzle that has perplexed humanity for millennia, a mystery that needs to be solved in this era.
c. The reasons for the cause of aging are a puzzle that has perplexed humanity for millennia, encouraging many cosmatic and scientific companies cooperate togehter to find the reaasons.

5. The successful accomplishment of test-tube fertilization of embryos has raised many issues of an ethical nature that continue to trouble both scientists and laypeople.
a. The successful accomplishment of test-tube fertilization of embryos has raised many issues of an ethical nature that continue to trouble both scientists and laypeople, issues in which the process is not proper.
b. The successful accomplishment of test-tube fertilization of embryos has raised many issues of an ethical nature that continue to trouble both scientists and laypeople, an event that has led to divicive debates.
c. The successful accomplishment of test-tube fertilization of embryos has raised many issues of an ethical nature that continue to trouble both scientists and laypeople, raising many difficult issues for scientist and philisophers.

6. Many who lived during the period of the Victorian era were appalled when Darwin put forth the suggestion that their ancestry might have included creatures such as apes.
a. Many who lived during the period of the Victorian era were appalled when Darwin put forth the suggestion that their ancestry might have included creatures such as apes, a suggestion that had been accepted by many other people.
b. Many who lived during the period of the Victorian era were appalled when Darwin put forth the suggestion that their ancestry might have included creatures such as apes, a thought that a lot of people still do not accept.
c. Many who lived during the period of the Victorian era were appalled when Darwin put forth the suggestion that their ancestry might have included creatures such as apes, refusing the idea of evolution and insisting on the idea of creation.

7. In the period known to scholars and historians as the Renaissance, increases in affluence and stability in the area of political affairs had the consequence of allowing streams of thought of different kinds to merge and flow together.
a. In the period known to scholars and historians as the Renaissance, increases in affluence and stability in the area of political affairs had the consequence of allowing streams of thought of different kinds to merge and flow together, a consequence that everybody was talking about in that period.
b. In the period known to scholars and historians as the Renaissance, increases in affluence and stability in the area of political affairs had the consequence of allowing streams of thought of different kinds to merge and flow together, a sign of freedom of speech.
c. In the period known to scholars and historians as the Renaissance, increases in affluence and stability in the area of political affairs had the consequence of allowing streams of thought of different kinds to merge and flow together, starting the era of freedom of speech.

8. The field of journalism has to an increasing degree placed its focus on the kind of news stories and events that at one time in our history were considered to be only gossip of a salacious and sexual nature.
a. The field of journalism has to an increasing degree placed its focus on the kind of news stories and events that at one time in our history were considered to be only gossip of a salacious and sexual nature, news stories and events in which a lot of people took interest in.
b. The field of journalism has to an increasing degree placed its focus on the kind of news stories and events that at one time in our history were considered to be only gossip of a salacious and sexual nature, a period when a lot of people did not have interest in science.
c. The field of journalism has to an increasing degree placed its focus on the kind of news stories and events that at one time in our history were considered to be only gossip of a salacious and sexual nature, allowing everybody to know about celebrities' private lives.

9. The solution to automobile dependence is to develop a more extensive transport infrastructure.
a. The solution to automobile dependence is to develop a more extensive transport infrastructure, a transport infrastructure that can be easily used by a lot of people.
b. The solution to automobile dependence is to develop a more extensive transport infrastructure, a shift that makes the nation independent on foreign sources.
c. The solution to automobile dependence is to develop a more extensive transport infrastructure, aiming to reduce air pollution.

10. Al Gore has tirelessly urged world governments to develop policies an response to global warming.
a. Al Gore has tirelessly urged world governments to develop policies an response to global warming, global warming has affected the entire world since the middle of the 20th century.
b. Al Gore has tirelessly urged world governments to develop policies an response to global warming, an action that encourages everybody to contribute to the solution of this problem.
c. Al Gore has tirelessly urged world governments to develop policies an response to global warming, encouriging everybody to contribute toward the solution of this problem.

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