C Practice. 1. Are the following sentences right or wrong?

1. Are the following sentences right or wrong? If wrong, make the necessary correction.

1 We finished the project on time; so we had three days to spare.

2 We worked on the study for two weeks.

3 While the two-week period, we had no technical support at all.

4 Before to start on the next study, there will be a short training course.

5 The next year we are sure to see the results of our efforts.

6 The following day they agreed to sign the contract without any conditions.

2. Put a suitable preposition into the blanks so that your completed sentences are chronologically and grammatically correct.

1 We completed the user study in January. ___ this stage we moved on to the market study.

2 Unfortunately the user study overran by one week. The reason was that ___ the analysis stage, we encountered some unexpected problems with the data.

3 So we finally managed to input all the data ___ 15 January.

4 We continued to receive data output ___ another week.

5 Naturally we had to verify the results ___ we could hand over the results to the client.

6 So ___ the beginning and the end of the project we needed a total of 8 weeks.

7 ___ the beginning of our first meeting, the client told us that time was of the essence; ___ the middle I explained about the unexpected problems. So, ___ the end I don't think the overrun will be a significant factor.

3. Below is an extract from the log of Sygma II, an oil platform in the North Sea. Complete the text by writing suitable prepositions in the gaps.

___ the day the sea had been very rough. ___ 16.00 the helicopter arrived bringing the replacement drillers. These were needed as 2 of our crew had gone sick ___ the previous night. The new drillers are to stay with us ___ the end of next week. They have just worked ___ 2 months onshore and are happy to have a change. ___ the evening the sea calmed down and we were able to start working comfortably again. However, just ___ the evening shift started, the computer went down again. The computer technicians were called in and ___ 22.00 they had the computer running again. ___ that, there were no problems ___ the night shift. The morning shift reported for duty ___ time at 06.00.

Writing Activity

Murphy's law states, 'If anything can go wrong, it will.' Write about one such occasion in the form of a log and use as many prepositions of time as possible.

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