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7. Vaccinations save many lives.
a. People die because of vaccinations.
b. People live because of vaccinations.
c. Vaccinations make people sick.
d. Vaccinations cure disease.

8. Doctors treat illnesses, or diseases, with new drugs and new machines.
a. machines b. drugs c. diseases d. doctors

9. Anesthesiologists put patients to sleep during operations. Then the patients feel no pain.
a. Patients hurt.
b. Patients do not hurt.
c. Patients operate.
d. Patients do not sleep.

What do these sentence patterns mean?
Some of these sentence patterns may be new to you. You probably understand the general
idea. Sometimes you can understand a sentence better if you recognize the sentence pattern.
For example, the word to with a verb often answers the question why. Look at the following
example.

1. Why do doctors use new drugs and machines?
2. Doctors use new drugs and machines in order to heal patients.
3. Doctors use new drugs and machines to heal patients.
Read the following sentences. Put a check (V) in front of the sentences with the same meaning
as the first. You may check more than one sentence. See the example.

1. Doctors and nurses work together to give good medical care.
___V___ a. Doctors want to give good care.
___V___ b. Nurses want to give good care.
_______ c. Doctors and nurses are good.

2. Doctors often give vaccinations to stop diseases.
_______ a. Vaccinations stop disease.
_______ b. Doctors give diseases.
_______ c. Vaccinations are diseases.
3. Surgeons use operations to take care of problems inside the body.
_______ a. Operations take care of problems inside the body.
_______ b. Doctors have problems inside their bodies.
_______ c. Operations are problems inside the body.

4. Specialists work together to heal patients.
_______ a. Specialists heal patients.
_______ b. Specialists work together.
_______ c. Specialists are patients.

The word who often replaces a noun. Two sentences about the same person or thing can
make one sentence.
- Doctors cure people who are sick.
- Doctors cure people. People are sick.

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