Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Just after the play started there was a power failure.

A. No earlier had the play started than there was a power failure.

B. Hardly did the play start then there was a power failure.

C. No sooner did the play start before there was a power failure.

D. Hardly had the play started when there was a power failure.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Our school started building a new canteen in June. They are still building it now.

A. Our school have started building a new canteen from June till now.

B. Our school have been building a new canteen since June.

C. Our school have built a new canteen now since starting in June.

D. Our school are building the new canteen which started in June.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

She had only just begun to speak when people started interrupting.

A. She hardly had begun to speak when people started interrupting.

B. Hardly she had begun to speak when people started interrupting.

C. Hardly had she begun to speak when people started interrupting.

D. She hadn’t begun to speak when people started interrupting.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

Right after the boy got out of his house, it started to rain heavily.

A. It had rained heavily before the boy got out of his house.

B. Hardly had it started to rain heavily when the boy got out of his house.

C. No sooner had the boy got out of his house than it started to rain heavily.

D. Not until it started to rain heavily did the boy got out of his house.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

They finished one project. They started working on the next right away.

A. Had they finished one project, they would have started working on the next.

B. Only if they had finished one project did they start working on the next.

C. Hardly had they finished one project when they started working on the next.

D. Not until did they start working on the next project when they finished one.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Question 30: We cut down many forests. The Earth becomes hot.

A. The more forests we cut down, the hotter the Earth becomes.

B. The more we cut down forests, the hotter the Earth becomes.

C. The more forests we cut down, the Earth becomes hotter.

D. The more we cut down forests, the Earth becomes hotter.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Question 29: We found the bad weather inconvenient. We chose to stay in a guest house for the night.

A. In spite of the inconvenient weather, we chose to stay in a guest house for the night.

B. We found the bad weather inconvenient, yet we chose to stay in a guest house for the night.

C. Seeing that the bad weather was inconvenient, we chose to stay in a guest house for the night.

D. We found the bad weather inconvenient so as to choose to stay in a guest house for the night.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Question 30: It was an interesting novel. I stayed up all night to finish it.

A. The novel was so interesting that I stayed up all night to finish it.

B. Though it was an interesting novel, I stayed up all night to finish it.

C. I stayed up all night to finish the novel so it was interesting.

D. Unless it were an interesting novel, I would not stay up all night to finish it.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

Right after the boy got out of his house, it started to rain heavily.

A. Not until it started to rain heavily did the boy got out of his house.

B. No sooner had the boy got out of his house than it started to rain heavily.

C. Hardly had it started to rain heavily when the boy got out of his house.

D. It had rained heavily before the boy got out of his house.