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Building suburban housing developments in floodplains has led to the existence of extensive and widespread flooding and economic disaster in parts of our country in recent years, it is now clear.
In recent years, suburban housing developments have led to the existence of widespread flooding and economic disaster.
The President’s tendency to rewrite the Constitution is the biggest danger to the nation, in my opinion, at least
A large danger to the nation, in my opinion, is the president's tendency to rewrite the Constitution.
Transform the second sentence into a verbal phrase that modifies an independent clause:
The city council decided to confine the homeless together in a small area and denied them adequate housing. This decision has transformed Skid Row into probably the most dangerous ten square blocks in the world.
The city council decided to confine the homeless together in a small area and denied them adequate housing, transforming Skid Row into probably the most dangerous ten square blocks in the world.
The teacher who makes an assignment of a long final term paper at the end of the semester and who then gives only a grade and nothing else such as a critical comment is a common object of complaint among students at the college level.
Student complaints are common from the teacher who assigns a long term paper at the end of the semester with no comments regarding their grade.
A new political philosophy that could affect our society well into the twenty-first century may emerge from these studies.
A new political philosophy that emerged with new studies may affect our society well into the twenty-first century
Fill the blank space with the word "work" in the appropriate form.
If artificial selection can make such extensive changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, __________ over billions of years, be able to do?
working
Renting textbooks rather than buying them for basic required courses such as mathematics, foreign languages, and English, whose textbooks do not go through yearly changes, is feasible, however, economically speaking.
Renting textbooks rather than buying them is feasible because they do not go through yearly changes.
There are limited opportunities for faculty to work with individual students in large American colleges and universities.
Faculty in large American colleges and Universities have limited opportunities to work with individual students.
Combine the sentences below by using an adjective clause.
Technology allowed us to explore and colonize the most remote corners of the Earth. The same technology now permits us to leave our planet, to travel into space, to explore other worlds.
The technology that allowed us to explore and colonize the most remote corners of the Earth now permits us to leave our planet, to travel into space, to explore other worlds.