Put the verb in the brackets into the correct form

Example : Hooke is known (collaborate) with most of the great scientists of his day – Boyle, Newton, Huygens, Leeuwenhoek.

Hooke is known to have collaborated with most of the great scientists of his day – Boyle, Newton, Huygens, Leeuwenhoek.

 

1. Now a twentieth century icon E=mc² is one of the few things about science that every TV quiz participants (expect) to know.

2. The famous Monument of the Fire in London, the world’s tallest Greek-style column, is thought (design) by Hooke.

3. Linus Pauling (consider) to be the most influential chemist since Lavoisier and the founding father of molecular biology.

4. Owing to Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, all observations are seen (affect) with a small but irreducible degree of imprecision.

5. Lavoisier was tried and found guilty, and when his achievements were brought to the attention of the judge in an attempt of his friends to save him, the judge is said (to reply), ‘The Republic has no need for scientists’

6. Western style development is known (bring) the third world accelerated depletion of natural resources.

7. Scientists (know) to complain of a want of candor in their confreres, in pursuit of patents or merely priority.

WORD FORMATION: Suffixes of abstract nouns

(-al, -ance, -cation, -ment, -sion -tion)

10. Form nouns from the following verbs:

prove  – proof                 improve –                     approve  –

assume – assumption       presume –                      resume –

include –                           exclude –                       conclude –

apply – 1.   2.                imply –                                comply –

suppose –                             expose –                             dispose –

 

Use some of the nouns from Ex. 10 to fill the gaps.

Example: The structure can be stated in terms of concepts in relations. The whole structure rests on observations and theoretical assumptions.

1. In scientific studies …, reasoning and estimations are normally complemented by evidence from controlled experiments.

2. What we learned at school years ago – or what we read just last year – doesn’t necessarily correspond to today’s scientific ….

3. The… of theory of relativity were so profound that they would overturn classical physics and transform the scientific view of such things as space, time, matter, energy and light.

4. In the early years of radiation research physicists were ignorant of adverse effects of long … to radioactivity.

 

CONFUSABLES: verbs/nouns

Choose the word and put in the correct form to fill the gaps.

                               to devise/device

Mechanical machines were popular in the 17th century: the Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617) … one, as did the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). They were mechanical … for adding and subtracting numbers.

                            to advise/advice

Mendel duly followed his …, did experiments and published the paper on his unsuccessful result.

                       to test/ a test; to taste/taste

The oddest manner in which a new sweetener came to light was when Shashkant Phadnis, a foreign research student at King’s College in London misheard the instructions of his supervisor, professor L. Hough. Hough asked him to … the substance, but his ear being imperfectly attuned to the language, Phadnis instead … it. The resulting artificial sweetener, sucralose, as it became known, can replace sucrose at less than one-thousandth of the concentration.

                                to extend/extent

But they all rely on physical laws that have been, to some … and at some point, experimentally tested.

                               to emphasize/ emphasis

MIT's mission and culture continue … teaching and research grounded in practical applications of science and technology.

                               to analyze/ analysis

Carnot’s … laid the cornerstone of a new discipline called thermodynamics, − literally, “heat movement”.

                               to breathe /breath

The construction of LHC is really a …-taking achievement.

                                to weigh/weight

Mendeleyev decided to … those substances whose atomic … seemed wrong to him.

 

 

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