Causes and effects
Exercise 1.
1. Higher rates of literacy caused greater demand for secondary education.
2. Due to the construction of the airport, more tourists arriving.
3. Last year's national election resulted in a new government formed.
4. Installing speed cameras on main roads produced a fall in the number of fatal accidents.
5. As a result of opening a new hospital in 2012, there was reduced infant mortality.
6. More people shopping on the Internet led to stores closing on high street.
Exercise 2.
1. Increasing use of email for messages caused a decrease in producing paper.
2. Due to the violent storms last week, there was a considerable amount of homeless people.
3. The new vaccine for tuberculosis resulted in a rise in the people's lifespan.
4. Building a high-speed railway line led to a decrease the amount of time to take to the airport.
5. The invention of the jet engine caused the start of vital space expolarations.
Exercise 3.
1. The serious motorway accident was caused by heavy snow.
2. There was the 1914–1918 war because of misunderstanding between some countries.
3. The increase in obesity was produced by a rise in fast food consumption.
4. Earthquakes were produced by missile test.
5. The rising prison population resulted from a decrease the number of public schools.
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Causes and effects
(Part Two)
Exercise 2.1. An increase in the use of emails for messages caused a decrease in producing the use of paper.
2. Due to the violent storms last week, there was a considerable amount number of homeless people became homeless.
3. The new vaccine for tuberculosis resulted in a rise in the people's lifespan.
4. Building a high-speed railway led to a decrease in travelling time the amount of time to take to the airport.
5. The invention of the jet engine caused the started of vital space explorations. expolarations.
* In sentence 1, I tried to include parallel structures by using "increase" and "decrease" in the noun form and "the use of" for both "emails" and "paper".
* In sentence 2, "amount" refers to uncountable nouns. Since "people" is a countable noun, I replaced your "amount" with "number" instead. I also used "became" to indicate that something caused these people to become homeless.
*In sentence 3, you are not referring specifically to a group of people; instead, you are referring to people in general. Hence, I deleted your "the".
* In sentence 5, the word "started" already has the meaning of something (i.e the invention of the jet engine) that caused something else (i.e vital space explorations) to occur. Hence, I deleted your "caused the".
I hope these will help you.
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Causes and effects
(Part One)
Exercise 1.1. Higher literacy rates caused a greater demand for secondary education.
2. Due After to the construction inauguration of the airport, more tourists are arriving / more tourists came.
3. Last year's national election resulted in a new government. formed.
4. Installing speed cameras along the main roads produced resulted in a fall in the number of fatal accidents.
5. As a result of opening the inauguration of a new hospital in 2012, there was reduced infant mortality was reduced.
6. More people shopping on the Internet led to stores closing on high street.
* I changed sentence 2 because it sounds quite odd that tourists are arriving in the midst of the construction. I feel that it makes more sense for the airport to start its operations before more tourists can fly in.
* I used "inauguration" for sentences 2 and 6. This word is used to describe an initiation ceremony for someone very important to assume office. An example would be the inauguration of a president after an election. This word can also be used to refer to an official start to something that is nationally important, such as the metro, a national museum, a hospital, an airport and so on.
* In sentence 4, it sounds odd to use "produce" as it has the meaning that the speed cameras actively "made" something happen. Instead, the speed cameras' presence on the main roads reminded road users to slow down or be careful, "resulting in" a decrease in number of fatalities. We use "along" to describe things (e.g. speed cameras) found in a particular direction as something else (e.g a highway).
Another example:
As a CEO, John put in hard work and produced concrete results for the company. This has resulted in greater morale among the staff.
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Causes and effects
(Part Three)Exercise 3.
1. The serious motorway accident was caused by heavy snow.
2. There was the The 1914–1918 war broke out because of some misunderstanding between some countries.
3. The increase in obesity was the result of produced by a rise in fast food consumption.
4. A series of earthquakes was triggered produced by the missile test.
5. The rising prison population resulted from a decrease in the number of public schools.
* In sentence 2, we can use "broke out" to refer to the sudden onset of something negative such as a disease, protest or war. We need a quantifier to describe the amount of "misunderstanding" that led to the war.
* In sentence 4, we can use "series" to refer to several related events that occur one after another (e.g a series of earthquakes, a series of tsunamis). We can use "trigger" to refer to the act of something suddenly causing something else to happen. In your case, the detonation of the missiles suddenly caused the earthquakes.
* In sentence 5, I assume what you mean is that a lack of quality schools led to a lack of civic education, which in turn led to more people being led astray and break the law, leading to their incarceration. Personally, I feel that this series of links is not clearly expressed in your sentence. In other words, your link between the cause and effect is rather tenuous. I would like to suggest another sentence that shows multiple causes and effects: "A decrease in the number of public schools may result in a less educated population, ultimately leading to a rising prison population."
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