Writing Academic English 4th Edition

Chapter"1 IComparison/ContrastEssal's 117

ComparisonSignalWord§(continued)

3. TheBritishParliamenthastwoseparatehouses,theHouseofCommons
   andtheHouseofLords.TheUnitedStatesCongresshastwoseparate
   houses,theSenateandtheHouseofRepresentatives.


4. TheUnitedStatesoperatesundera two-partysystem.GreatBlitain
   operatesundera two-partysystem.

Britaindoes.

Robotsarelike/aresimilarto/arethesameashumanworkersintheirabilitytodetect

malfunctionsinmachinery.

Intheirabilitytodetectmalfunctionsinmachinery,robotsandhumanworkers

arethesame.

Robotscanbecomparedto/becomparedwithhumanworkersintheirabilitytodetect

malfunctionsinmachinery.

Robotsandhumanworkersarealike/aresimilarintheirabilitytodetectmalfunctions

inmachinery.

Neitherrobotsnorhumanworkersareinfallible.I

Robots,like/justlike/similartohumanworkers,candetectmalfunctionsinmachinery.

Notonlyrobotsbutalsohumanworkerscandetectmalfunctionsinmachinery.

Bothrobotsandhumanworkerscandetectmalfunctionsinmachinery.

Robotsandhumanworkerscandetectmalfunctionsinmachinery.

'infallible:perfect,withouterrors

A. Addcomparisonsignalwordstoconnectthefollowingcomparisons.Theitems

containbothsentencesandshOltphrases.Youshouldwriteonecompletenew

sentenceforeachitemandusedifferentcomparisonsignalwordsineach.The

firstonehasbeendoneforyouasanexample.

1. TheUnitedStateshasa democraticformofgovemment.GreatBritainhas
   a democraticformofgovemment.
   TheUnitedstateshasa democraticformofgovernment. justasGreat

(be)alike

(be)similar

(be)like

(be)similar(to)

(be)thesameas

(be)thesame

tocompare(to/with)

like(+noun)

justlike(+noun)

similarto(+noun)

neither••.nor

and

notonly...butalso

both...and

PRACT1CE 2

Using

Comparison

Signa'Words