TECHNICAL ENGLISH 2015 HOMEWORK 6 - VERB RECOGNITION

ACTIVITIES: 1. Read every sentence and underline the main verb or verbs.
2. In the parenthesis, write the past or present tense of the verbs, and then, read the new
sentences.
EXAMPLE: Pyrometallurgy involves high temperature processes where chemical reactions take place.
(involved), (took place)
1. Mine water will contain residual ammonium ion from the explosives used yesterday. (____________)
2. Particle size reduction could not be required to permit efficient separation of the valuable materials from
gangue. (______________)
3. Separation processes take advantage of physical properties of the materials in order to separate them from
each other. (____________________)
4. Separation processes involved the use of water, solid-liquid separation processes were also a subject of
mineral processing. (____________________), (__________________)
5. Hydrometallurgy is concerned with processes that include aqueous solutions to extract metals from ores.
(______________________), (______________________)
6. Smelting is a chemical reaction that requires a particular ore, that sometimes look like any other common
sedimentary rock. (___________________), (_________________),(______________________)
7. Probably, the first smelting may have been done by accident by making a campfire on top of tin or lead ores.
(_____________________)
8. Nobody knew when the earliest cast tin artifacts were made, given that tin was much more uncommon than
lead. (____________), (_____________), (______________)
9. Pottery kilns produce ceramics that can be glazed with colorful earths to produce colorful vases.
(_________________),(_________________)
10. Mineral processing has been used to manipulate the particle size of solid raw materials. (_________)
11. In these towers, the gas passes upwards counter-current to a descending spray of water.
(____________________)
12. All powder metallurgy methods begin with the raw material in the form of a powder.
(___________________)
13. Powder metallurgy processes include pressing and sintering. (______________)
14. Powder metallurgy competes with several more conventional metalworking methods.
(___________________)
15. The direct-arc furnace charges will be heated principally by radiation from the arc.
(_________________)
16. The analysts agreed that Western capacity cuts were likely to end by the end of the year.
(________________), (______________)
17. The technological development of the Corporation has made possible important improvements in open pit
and underground mining. (______________)
18. Everyone knows comminution out of his daily life as methods like cutting, crushing, grinding and rasping.
(___________________)
19. Treatment of effluent streams focuses on the products that are produced. (____________), (____________)
20. The presence of significant interfacial disturbance has already been observed. (_______________)
21. Plastics and ceramics were non-metals; however, plastics could be machined like metals.
(_______________), (_______________)
22. The primary material should be divided into many small individual particles. (_______________)
23. Thermosets cannot be reshaped, because they undergo chemical changes as they harden.
(_______________), (_______________), (_______________)
24. The incorporation of technology into copper mining makes possible greater efficiency of the production
processes as well as exploiting deposits where metal extraction is difficult. (_______________),
(_______________)
25. If the products are hazardous, additional treatment may have been required before disposal is possible.
(_______________), (_______________), (_______________)
26. Engineers has also to understand the properties of these materials and how they can be worked.
(_______________), (_______________)
27. The environmentally unacceptable working conditions could not be accepted by workers who
might suffer the consequences of the chemical emissions. (_______________), (_______________)