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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.

5. Family doctors care for patients who have all kinds of diseases.
_______ a. Doctors have diseases.
_______ b. Patients have diseases.
_______ c. Family doctors are patients.
6. Anesthesiologists are specialists who help surgeons.

_______ a. Surgeons are anesthesiologists.
_______ b. Anesthesiologists help surgeons.
_______ c. All specialists help surgeons.

7. Pediatricians are physicians who care for children.
_______ a. Pediatricians are doctors.
_______ b. Pediatricians take care of children.
_______ c. Pediatricians are often children.

How do these words function?
Different kinds of words work in different ways in sentences. Verbs are words like is, care for, die,
and prevent. Every sentence in English has a verb. Nouns are words like health, medicine, doctor, and
vaccination. Look at the following italicized words from the reading. Write N for nouns and V for verbs.
______ 1. Doctors give medicine to sick people.
______ 2. Physicians heal patients.
______ 3. Obstetricians deliver babies.
______ 4. Accidents happen at home or at work.
______ 5. People sometimes die from disease.
______ 6. The heart and lungs are inside the body.
______ 7. Family practice doctors sometimes send patients to specialists.
______ 8. Ophthalmologists want to prevent blindness.

Can you put these sentences in order?
Words like first, then, after, before, at last, and finally are called sequence words because they show
order. Pay attention to these words in your reading. They help you understand the order of ideas. The
sentences in this exercise are not in order. The purpose of the exercise is to put the sentences in order.
Use the sequence words to help you. Number the sentences in the correct order.
People must study a long time to become doctors. Their education is long, difficult, and
expensive. It costs a lot of money. It happens in this order.

______ Then they go to a medical school for another four years.
______ After their residency, most doctors choose a specialization.
______ They must study their specialization for another year or more.
______ Men and women must study many years to become doctors.
______ First, they must study for four years at a college or university.
______ Finally, they are ready to begin their own practice.
______ They are residents for at least one year.
______ After medical school, they work in a hospital as residents.

Read these sentences again. Circle all the sequence words.

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