Exercises

	Writing Handbook Exercises

Participials and Infinitives PART B : Constructing infinitive phrases example: Reduce the length of this sentence by beginning it with an infinitive phrase. If we want to ensure that the Canadian Forces will be able to meet its foreign and defence policy commitments in an unstable world, a formal defence policy review is needed now. *To ensure* that the Canadian Forces will be able to meet its foreign and defence policy commitments in an unstable world, a formal defence policy review is needed now.

8. Revise the bold-faced sentence to form an infinitive phrase beginning In order to, and join this phrase to the first sentence to create a single, concise sentence. We must stay far enough ahead of our potential adversaries. We must stay ahead so that we can field countermeasures to weapons systems that we developed as leading-edge technologies only a few years before.


8. We must stay far enough ahead of our potential adversaries in order to field countermeasures to weapons systems that we developed as leading-edge technologies only a few years before.