WRITING FOR ENGINEERING WEEK 1 WORKSHEET

1. Read the following sentences and mark them S if they are Simple, C if they are compound and CX
if they are Complex.

1. More than 700 reinforced concrete buildings were destroyed in the earthquake. ..

2. Evidence found confirmed that quality of construction materials is far from acceptable, and construction
practices applied were very poor.

3. In most cases, building owners did not consider technical advice and decided to increase construction
area without thinking about earthquake risk. .

4. After collecting regional information, it was concluded that use of sea sand in concrete production has
been common, even for projects supervised by professionals.

5. The figure at the left shows the most important hotel in Pedernales, which had only two floors years ago,
but it had five floors before the quake.

2. Read the following text and cross out those ideas that break the rule of parallelism and subject
verb agreement.

First, bridges are similar to viaducts in the way that they both serve the same purpose, which are to quickly
and easy facilitate travel from one safe point to travelling to another across obstacles, like rivers, valleys
and other difficult terrain. Secondly, there are many famous bridges in the world. Bridges can be difficult to
design and if they are not designed to the correct codes, standards of materials and specifications then
they may be in danger of failure which could result in tragedy. One of my favorite bridges is the Golden
Gate in San Francisco. Bridges comes in many different sizes and are constructed based on the desired
needs of the community. Some communities have more bridges than others. Bridges may be designed for
transporting pedestrian traffic or several 100 thousand kilos of cars during rush hour traffic. The design of
the bridge is determined in advanced based on the predicted use and mode of travel across the bridge.
Many forces must be taken into consideration during design phases. Bridges are typically the most
expensive aspect of road construction no matter where they are build. Millions of people relies on fast and
safe travel across bridges every day. This is why it is very important to be precise with plan and calculate
when identifying location, design and constructing bridges.
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WRITING FOR ENGINEERING WEEK 1 WORKSHEET

1. Read the following sentences and mark them S if they are Simple, C if they are compound and CX
if they are Complex.

1. More than 700 reinforced concrete buildings were destroyed in the earthquake. S..

2. Evidence found confirmed that quality of construction materials is far from acceptable, and construction
practices applied were very poor. C

3. In most cases, building owners did not consider technical advice and decided to increase construction
area without thinking about earthquake risk. CX.

4. After collecting regional information, it was concluded that use of sea sand in concrete production has
been common, even for projects supervised by professionals. CX..

5. The figure at the left shows the most important hotel in Pedernales, which had only two floors years ago,
but it had five floors before the quake. CX

2. Read the following text and cross out those ideas that break the rule of parallelism and subject
verb agreement.

First, bridges are similar to viaducts in the way that they both serve the same purpose, which IS are to
quickly and EASILY easy facilitate travel from one safe point to TRAVEL travelling to another across
obstacles, like rivers, valleys and other difficult terrain. Secondly, there are many famous bridges in the
world. Bridges can be difficult to design and if they are not designed to the correct codes, standards of
materials and specifications then they may be in danger of failure which could result in tragedy. One of my
favorite bridges is the Golden Gate in San Francisco. Bridges COME comes in many different sizes and are
constructed based on the desired needs of the community. Some communities have more bridges than
others. Bridges may be designed for transporting pedestrian traffic or several 100 thousand kilos of cars
during rush hour traffic. The design of the bridge is determined in advanced based on the predicted use
and mode of travel across the bridge. Many forces must be taken into consideration during design phases.
Bridges are typically the most expensive aspect of road construction no matter where they are built. Millions
of people relay relies on fast and safe travel across bridges every day. This is why it is very important to be
precise with plan and CALCULATIONS calculate when identifying location, design and constructing
bridges.