COM 220 Grammar Exercise 2

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 Using concise language

 Make the following sentences more concise by omitting or replacing wordy expressions and unnecessary repetition. Because items have more than one correct answer, you will see only a suggested answer for each item, and you will not receive a score for this exercise.

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 1. In 1893, Thomas Edison set up the original first movie studio.

 2. The first films were silent due to the fact that the technology for movies with sound did not exist.

 3. Early silent movies looked jumpy and jerky.

 4. The first silent films were also short in length, but studios later made full-length silents.

 5. At the present time, film scholars acknowledge that some silents were masterpieces.

 6. When the possibility of making movies with sound became possible, the silents were doomed.

 7. There was an Al Jolson film in 1927 called The Jazz Singer that was the first "talkie."

 8. Despite the fact that silent movies were still popular, film studios decided that talking pictures and silent pictures could not both please moviegoers.

 9. Some studios released silent movies that played too fast at the wrong speed to prevent audiences from enjoying them.

 10. The global popularity around the world of silent films on television and at film festivals proves that the best silents can still attract audiences.

 Passive voice

 1. The song "We Are the World" was written by Quincy Jones.

 2. A bible, a mail-order catalog, and newsreels of President Franklin D. Roosevelt were

 placed in a time capsule during the 1939 World's Fair.

 3. Mistakes were made.

 4. The first flight in a balloon powered with a small steam engine and propeller was made by Frenchman Henri Giffard in 1852.

 5. The cotton textile industry in the United States was founded in 1790.

 6. In 1917, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which outlawed the manufacture, sale, or consumption of intoxicating liquors, was passed by Congress.

 7. The powerful empire of the Aztecs was crushed by Hernando Cortez in the sixteenth century.

 8. The famous quotation "Genius is two percent inspiration and ninety-eight percent perspiration" was uttered by Thomas Alva Edison.

 9. The first known radio broadcast in America was made in 1906 by a radio experimenter, Reginald Fessenden, in Brant Rock, Massachusetts.

 10. On the first Christmas during World War I, an unofficial truce was declared by British and German troops, who were enemies.

 Using active or passive voice

 1.

 At the turn of the century, derby hats were worn by men in the United States and Europe.

 At the turn of the century, men in the United States and Europe wore derby hats.

 2.

 The round, black derby was called a bowler by the British.

 The British called the round, black derby a bowler.

 3.

 Men of every social class favored the derby.

 The derby was favored by men of every social class.

 4.

 Derbies were chosen by wealthy men to avoid looking conspicuous.

 Wealthy men chose derbies to avoid looking conspicuous.

 5.

 A man of the working class could wear a derby with dignity.

 A derby could be worn with dignity by a man of the working class.

 6.

 Everyone, rich or poor, considered the derby to be appropriate for most occasions.

 A derby was considered by every

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