Improving Style by
Using Subordinating Conjunctions Answers
Directions:
Underline the word that correctly completes each sentence
below.
Example:
Arthur wanted to go back home (because, that) two cats crossed the street in front of his
car.
1. (After, Than) the Hong Kong stock exchange’s trading floor was completely computerized in 1986, traders no longer needed to shout or wave their arms.
2. Although Boyd has photographed poisonous snakes, mountain gorillas, and New York cab drivers, photographing bears in Alaska scared him more (than, which) any of his other assignments.
3. (If, Though) Verlyn is good at the technical side of astronomy, he is less interested in improving telescopes than I studying the sky with the equipment he has.