Cover of the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Writing 3 - A personal profile for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Look at the. sentences in the box and in the profiles and discuss what you notice about.

Answer

  1. As well as is at the start of the sentence. Also is directly before the main verb.
  2. As well as is often followed by an -ing form, or it can be followed by a noun. It can come after a clause (e.g. I speak some Russian as well as speaking Welsh and English). Also can be after the subject, or after the auxilliary verb if there is one (I am also having ... or I also have French lessons).
  3. In the first sentence there is a comma before the main clause. If the two parts of the sentence were swapped, there would be no comma. There is no comma with also.