... 5. There was no
sincerity in the man, but there was a good deal of craft and … as well
as shrewdness. 6. They were here not a half-hour after you’d gone,
those …, and they tore my house apart ... version is shorter, clearer and more
sophisticated in syntax.
Exercise 1. (a) Join the following parts of sentences using the conjunctions
as, since, because, now that.
1. We did not expe...