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Sentence Structure Practice 3

There was a great need to tell time early on. Various methods were used including sundials, water clocks, and hourglasses which used the flow of sand or water to indicate the passage of time. Alfred the Great invented a candle clock with markings to tell time as the candle burned. A German in the 14th century invented a clock that contained many of the parts still used in modern clocks, making him one of the greatest contributors to civilization for enabling today's watches.

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Sentence Structure Practice 3

There was a great need to tell time early on. Various methods were used including sundials, water clocks, and hourglasses which used the flow of sand or water to indicate the passage of time. Alfred the Great invented a candle clock with markings to tell time as the candle burned. A German in the 14th century invented a clock that contained many of the parts still used in modern clocks, making him one of the greatest contributors to civilization for enabling today's watches.

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Exercise: Identify the pattern of each sentence of the following text by number and list the

sentence elements. Example:

• Perhaps you wear a watch. (Pattern 3)

N Verb N

S Verb Object

• The students called him a liar. (Pattern 5)

N Verb N N

Subject Verb O Object Complement

Clocks through History

1. There was a great need to tell the time.

2. It was important.

3. Early man marked the shadows of the trees with help of the sun.

4. Perhaps the shadows was short.

5. Noon was near.

6. Such clocks were satisfactory for a number of years.

7. Then some clever person gave us the sundial.

8. A sundial works fine on sunny days.

9. But some days are dark and cloudy.

10. Another inventor developed the water clock.

11. In it, water ran from one vessel to another.

12. The amount of water indicated the time.

13. A modern hourglass is similar to the old water clock.

14. Sand instead of water flows through an hourglass.

15. But the principle is the same.

16. Alfred the Great of England invented another method.

17. Alfred’s method was a candle with marking on it.


18. The candle burned.

19. Its markings indicated the time.

20. In the fourteenth century, a Germen invented a clock.

21. It contained many of the parts of a modern clock.

22. Historian should consider that German one of the greatest contributors to our civilization.

23. He made possible our watches of today.

24. We owe him recognition.

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