2.38: Affordable Care Act - Grammer Answers
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Grammar Analysis
Look through the reading and find examples of each of the following grammatical structures.
| Structure | Examples |
| Present Perfect Tense [1] | have long been left out |
| Present Perfect Tense [2] | has found |
| Present Perfect Tense [3] | have declined |
| Present Perfect Tense [4] | has clearly reduced |
| Present Perfect Tense [5] | has been measured |
| Present Perfect Tense [6] | when immigration has become a deeply ... |
| Present Perfect Tense [7] | those who have been in the country ... |
| Present Perfect Tense [8] | has withstood |
| Present Perfect Tense [9] | Obamacare has been profound |
| Present Perfect Tense [10] | has enrolled 18000 new patients |
| Structure | Examples |
| Infinitive showing purpose [1] | did not have enough clout in the labor market to demand |
| Infinitive showing purpose [2] | efforts to enact a broader health insurance system |
| Infinitive showing purpose [3] | did little to help workers |
| Infinitive showing purpose [4] | Ii expanded Medicare to cove |
| Structure | Examples |
| Verb + infinitive [1] | have declined to expand |
| Verb + infinitive [2] | tried and failed to win approval |
| Verb + infinitive [3] | continues to face challenges |
| Verb + infinitive [4] | when she needed to pay |
| Verb + infinitive [5] | chose not to expand Medicaid |
| Verb + infinitive [6] | start to ease |
| Structure | Examples |
| Object + infinitive [1] | some Republicans might temper their vows to repeal it |
| Object + infinitive [2] | it requires most Americans to have |
| Object + infinitive [3] | the Supreme Court allowed states to opt out |
| Object + infinitive [4] | drove him to quit |
| Structure | Examples |
| Gerund after preposition [1] | 25 years of working in the United States |
| Gerund after preposition [2] | the stress of wondering |
| Structure | Examples |
| Verb + gerund [1] | she stopped buying meat |
| Verb + gerund [2] | he started feeling tired |
| Verb + gerund [3] | start selling |
| Verb + gerund [4] | started turning purple |
| Structure | Examples |
| Gerund as subject | Making a doctor’s appointment seemed unthinkable |