... 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 expect ... did not understand the question. I will repeat it. 4. It is raining heavily. I will not go out. 5. I did not tell him. I was afraid I would hurt his feelings. 6. You had better not stay too long....