HCMC University of Technical Education

Faculty of Foreign Languages

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WRITING 1
Unit Code: WRIT120135
Time: 60 minutes
Date: .
Room:

Vigilante 1

Marks:

Vigilante 2

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Part A: Controlled writing (6 points)

I. Combining sentences (2 points) (0.4 point/ each)
Use appropriate punctuations and/or transitional words to combine the following pairs of
simple sentences into:
1. a complex sentence
Watching scary films is foolish. They are shown late at night.

2. a compound sentence
Mammals are the only species that has hair. They are the only one with one bone in the lower
jaw.

3. a simple sentence
Bruno tends to get bored sitting on the beach. He watches the waves, gets sand in his
swimsuit, and reads detective novels for a week.
When Bruno gets bored, he tends to sit on the beach, watches the waves, gets sand in his
swimsuit, or reads detective novels for a week.

4. a sentence beginning with an adverb or prepositional phrase

A man walked down the street. He bumped into his old friend.

5. a sentence with an -ing/ -ed modifier

We are looking toward the west. A funnel shaped cloud stirred up dust.

II. Proofreeding:
Read the following paragraph and do the following tasks ( 4 points):
Instruction: First identify the sentence problem that each sentence of the paragraph may have.
If the sentence has sentence problem, write the number of the sentence and the type of sentence
problem. If the sentence is correct, write the number of the sentence and letter C. There are in
total 10 sentences with sentence problems (fragment, fused sentence, comma splice, misplaced
modifier, dangling modifier). Then correct these 10 identified sentences to become complete
sentences. Be sure to use correct punctuation, transitional words, and grammar.
E.g.: (1) Watering flowers
You will write on your answer sheet: (1) fragment The boys are watering flowers.
[1] comma splice
[2]
[3] fragment
[4]
[7] misplaced modifier
[8] fragment
[10] fused sentences
[ 1] There have been many milestones in the history of food production, the development of
canned food is one of the most important. [2] Because canned goods fill our stores today .
[ 3] Most people generally these goods for granted . [ 4] The story of canned goods begins
in the 1700s with Lazzaro Spallanzan . his experiments in preserving food were some of the
earliest to succeed. [ 5] Produced by modern factories, other early experimenters preserved
vegetables, fruit, and meat in glass bottles. [ 6] Using processes in which the bottles of food
were heated to very high temperatures [7] Replacing bottles with containers made of tin-

plated iron later, the food is better and safer for our health. [8] Heat kills the bacteria, they
cause food to spoil. [9] As Louis Pasteur discovered in the mid-1800s [10] The development
of this process, now called pasteurization, made eating canned food safer the eventual
invention of the can opener made it easier!

Part B: Creative writing (4 points):

Choose ONE of the following topics to write a short paragraph between 100 and 120
words:
(At the head of your short paragraph, write the number of the topic you have chosen.)
1) Do you think that social networking sites are a good way to communicate with
friends? Why or why not?
2) According to you, what can people do to prevent disease and maximize health?

TOPIC: .