Grammar in EAP

Extraposition

Exercise: Answer

The original sentences were: 

1. It is important to appreciate that all a neurone can do is to transmit impulses at varying frequencies.

2. It is important to remember that not only “natural” but also “civil” philosophy comes under Hobbes’s general definition of philosophy.

3. It is essential that in the process you do not make your everyday life a misery.

4. It is interesting to note that the frequency of occurrence of the OR actually declined during conditioning for the control subjects.

5. It seems likely that a redefinition of the principal crimes of physical violation would cover most of these cases anyway.

6. It is also convenient to introduce the definitions.

7. It is appropriate here simply to list the various possibilities.

8. It seems difficult to exclude everyday physical contact with others.

9. It is difficult to devise ways of combating this impulsivity.

10. It is extremely doubtful whether such knowledge is possible anyway.

11. It is likely that the professionals who have been responsible for the running of such companies at local level will have been allied to the more liberal group among the upper protestant classes.

12. It is quite understandable why the developing island countries are actively pursuing the advancement of the scientific understanding of and formulation of policies on the climate change and sea-level-rise topics.

13. It is certainly true that in many cases warts will regress and even disappear without any treatment, but it is unclear why this should happen.