Poly U showcases sweating manikin

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Poly U showcases sweating manikin

• What is a manikin?
• What purpose could a sweating manikin serve?

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82. This new breed of manikin, nicknamed Walter,
has developed83. by two textile scientists at
the PolyU. Not only can Walter84. be dressed in
real clothing, but he can also perspires.
However

• (82)
• Who developed the manikin?
• Should develop be in the active or passive
  voice?
• Replace has with
• was

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82. This new breed of manikin, nicknamed Walter,
has developed83. by two textile scientists at
the PolyU. Not only can Walter84. be dressed in
real clothing, but he can also perspires.
However

• (83)
• Correct

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82. This new breed of manikin, nicknamed Walter,
has developed83. by two textile scientists at
the PolyU. Not only can Walter84. be dressed in
real clothing, but he can also perspires.
However

• (84)
• perspire is a verb.
• He can
• Replace perspires with
• perspire
• You can also delete
• can

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However,85. this manikin does not designed for
department store windows, but to 86. show what
fancy clothes are really look like after a hot
summers day.

• (85)
• Who designed the manikin? Was it the manikin or
  the scientists?
• Replace does with
• is/was

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However,85. this manikin does not designed for
department store windows, but to 86. show what
fancy clothes are really look like after a hot
summers day.

• (86)
• Look at these examples
• You are like your father.
• You like your father.
• You look like your father.
• Delete
• are

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87. This manikin, he has fabric skins of
different types that can be88. changed to
simulation different perspiration rates, is meant
for testing89. fabrics and clothing under
extremely conditions of temperature and activity.

• (87)
• What is the purpose of the part of the sentence
  between the commas?
• Which word should be replaced to make the
  adjective clause grammatically correct?
• Replace he with
• which.

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87. This manikin, he has fabric skins of
different types that can be88. changed to
simulation different perspiration rates, is meant
for testing89. fabrics and clothing under
extremely conditions of temperature and activity.

• (88)
• What is the purpose of having different fabric
  skins that can be changed?
• Do we need a verb or a noun?
• Replace simulation with
• simulate.

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87. This manikin, he has fabric skins of
different types that can be88. changed to
simulation different perspiration rates, is meant
for testing89. fabrics and clothing under
extremely conditions of temperature and activity.

• (89) They want to test the fabrics under the
  following conditions very high and very low
  temperatures, as well as intense activity.
• What part of speech is conditions?
• What kind of word should be used to modify a
  noun?
• Replace extremely with
• extreme.

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90. He can be used for testing the comfort
different kinds of clothing.

• The manikin can be used to test if different
  kinds of clothing are comfortable.
• What preposition is missing between the two ideas
  of comfort and different kinds of clothing?
• testing the comfort of different kinds of
  clothing.

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91. With Walter, some of challenges in manikin
technology have been met.92. Walter has four
distinct advantage over existing manikins

• (91)If we say some of , we are obviously
  talking about a specific group.
• What kind of challenges are we talking about?
  Challenges in manikin technology.
• What article is missing after some of ?
• the
• Deleting of would also be an acceptable answer.

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91. With Walter, some of challenges in manikin
technology have been met.92. Walter has four
distinct advantage over existing manikins

• (92)
• Very easy!
• How many advantages are there?
• Replace advantage with
• advantages.

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93. He has a waterproof fabric skin that allow
moisture to pass through.

• How many skins does he have?
• Does the verb allow agree with its subject?
• Replace allow with
• allows.

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94. Warm-bloodedness can be simulated by pump
warm water through him.

• Very easy!
• How can warm-bloodedness be simulated?
• by should be a good hint that you should
  replace pump with
• pumping

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95. He allows scientists to be easily measure
both heat insulation96. and resistance to water
vapour, get a high degree of accuracy.

• (95)
• Who is doing the measuring of heat insulation and
  resistance to water vapour?
• Do we need to use the active or passive voice.
• What word needs to be deleted?
• be

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95. He allows scientists to be easily measure
both heat insulation96. and resistance to water
vapour, get a high degree of accuracy.

• (96)
• The answer that sounds the most natural would be
  vapour with a high degree of accuracy.
  Although this was accepted as a possible answer,
  technically it isnt correct because of the
  comma. The preposition with is used with the
  noun accuracy.
• If we keep the comma, getting is a possible
  answer, but it doesnt sound quite as natural.
  This would create an adjective phrase.

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97. Walters skin can be unzip and changed, with
different skins98. simulating different rates of
perspiration.

• (97)
• Can Walters skin unzip itself?
• Replace unzip with
• unzipped.

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97. Walters skin can be unzip and changed, with
different skins98. simulating different rates of
perspiration.

• (98)
• Correct.

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99. The scientists claim that Walter will
extremely useful for environmental engineering.

• Useful is an adjective.
• Where is the verb in the second part of the
  sentence?
• Ex. Computers are useful.
• What word should you add between will and
  extremely useful?
• be