Manner Clauses
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Manner Clauses ve Ielts Sınavında Rolü
1 – Ielts Sınavı ( Ielts Sınavı için birebir Özel Ders )
2 – Ielts Sınavı ( Ielts Sınavı için 4 kişilik Grup Dersi )
Manner Clauses
Exercise1. Fill in the blanks in the dialogue with one of the conjunctions like, as, if, as though, in the way or as .
Ali and Hakan are bored with their lives.
Ali : I feel ……1 …… I’m wasting my life .
Hakan : Me too, I feel ……2 …… I need a change.
Ali : Let’s live ……3 …… we want!
Hakan : Let’s buy a caravan and live ……4 …… we were gypsies.
Ali : But we can’t leave our jobs and live ……5 …… that we’d like to.
Hakan : We’ll have to try to be happier ……6 …… we are.
Study the use of the manner clauses in the dialogue below.
Mrs Brown and Mrs Jones are talking in the street .
Mrs Brown : What’s wrong? You look as though you didn’t sleep for a week.
Mrs Jones : I’m very worried about my daughter. She never does as I tell her.
Mrs Brown : Perhaps, She doesn’t like the way you speak to her.
Mrs Jones : I speak the same way as I always do, she never listens.
Mrs Brown : Well, maybe she feels as if you don’t listen to her opinions.
Mrs Jones : What! She feels the same way as I do or I thought she did.
Mrs Brown : She’s fifteen now and acts as if she were twenty-five but that’s normal.
Mrs Jones : You’re right, I’ll try to change the way I speak to her.
Revision test on manner clauses Exercise
2. Fill in the blanks with a word or phrase from the box to make manner clauses. as / the same as / as though / the way that / the same way / as / as if
Ufuk and Tom are at work.
Ufuk : I don’t like our new boss. It’s …… 1 …… he is always watching us.
Tom : I know, and …… 2 …… he speaks to us is so irritating.
Ufuk : I feel …… 3 …… I were still at school.
Tom : So do I, he thinks we should do …… 4 …… he tells us.
Ufuk : He believes we behave …… 5 …… children do.
Tom : Yes, he acts …… 6 …… he were a headmaster.
Ufuk : I’m happy you feel …… 7 …… I do.
Tom : We all feel …… 8 …… you do.
Exercise 3. Complete the sentences with manner clauses, using the words in brackets.
1. A soldier in the army must do as he is told. (he / to be / tell ) 2. He thinks he’s so clever and talks ……………… ( he / to know / everything ) 3. A clever parrot can talk …………… (it / to be / a person ) 4. Thank you. You’ve looked after my house just ………… (it / to be / your own) 5. The old woman with the black cat ………….. ( look / like a witch )
Revision test on manner clauses
Exercise 4. Complete the following sentences, using the words in brackets to make manner clauses that start with as or as if, as though.
1. We do ………… (we / are / to tell / by our teacher ) 2. Elizabeth Taylor acted in the film ………… ( she / really / to be / Cleopatra ) 3. He ate a loaf of bread …………. ( he / not / to have / to eat / for days ) 4. He used our house …………. (it / to be / a hotel ) 5. Can I help you ? You look ………. ( you / to be / to lose )
Exercise 5. Answer the following questions with manner clauses that makes full use of the imagination! Use the words given in brackets. Some of them are idiomatic expressions in English. 1. How does Sezen Aksu sing ? ( a nightingale ) Sezen Aksu sings like a nightingale. 2. How does Ali swim ? ( a fish ) 3. Does he have good table manners? ( no / he / to eat / a pig ) 4. How does Prime Minister speak English? (an American ) 5. How did you sleep last night? ( I / to sleep / a baby ) 6. How was your holiday in Venice? ( It / to be / a dream ) 7. How did the bride look on her wedding day? ( a fairy tale princess ) 8. How were you treated by the Turkish family you stayed with? ( royalty ) 9. How did Ahmet treat Rose when he first met her? ( a princess ) 10. How did Gary think he could drive a car? ( Fangio )
Exercise 6. Complete the sentences, using the words or phrases like, as, as if or in the same way as to make manner clauses.
1. Mary can sing ………… a professional singer. 2. The baby is crying …………….. it has got a sharp pain in its stomach. 3. The secretary always talks …………. She was boss of the firm. 4. This naughty boy behaves in the just opposite way ………….. he has been told. 5. He talks ………….. a politician addressing to his electors.
Revision test on different clauses you have learnt so far
Exercise 7. There is a grammatical mistake in some of the following sentences. Write the letter T if the sentence is true, write the letter F if the sentence is false. Write the correct form if the sentence is false. …………
1. He speaks the same way his father will do. ………… 2. They were welcomed by their citizens as if they had saved their limes from a disaster. ………… 3. He looked at me like I broke the wase. ………… 4. He ate a big breakfast as though he was starving. ………… 5. Although she is well, she is lying in bed like she was ill. ………… 6. I gave a good cleaning to the house as though my mother does. ………… 7. Although he has only primary education, he speaks as if he had a university degree.
Exercise 8. Combine these sentences, using the words although, since, as, because, so that, such a …… that, before, after, so + adjective + that , the + comparative …… the + comparative and make other changes if necessary in order to make as many clauses as possible.
1. You have such a disgusting cough in the morning. You carry on smoking forty cigarettes a day. Although you have such a disgusting cough, you carry on smoking forty cigarettes a day. 2. It was a violent earthquake. Few buildings in the town were left standing. 3. It was feared there would be an outbreak of cholera. As many people as possible were vaccinated. 4. The shops are owercrowded before the Bayram. I have decided to do my shopping two months early. 5. We’re going to plant cotton again this year. Cotton prices have been going down. 6. I’m going to clean the house thoroughly on Friday. I won’t have to do housework over the weekend. 7. You eat less. You get thin. 8. She’s tired today. She had a very late night last night. 9. He read the instructions over and over again. He still couldn’t understand them. 10. It was a very complicated video recorder. Only two out of twenty five purchasers questioned had been able to use it satisfactorily. 11. He graduated from the Economics Department . He got a job as a waiter. 12. She had to take the TOEFL Test. She went to university in the United States.
Manner Clauses