1. Buying clothes are often a very time-consuming practice because those clothes that a person likes are rarely the ones that fit him or her.

• are

• a very time-consuming

• because those

• are rarely the ones

Because they had spent too many time considering the new contract, the students lost the opportunity to lease the apartment.

• Because

• too many

• considering

• lost the opportunity to lease

These televisions are all too expensive for we to buy at this time, but perhaps we will return later.

• These

• all too expensive

• we to buy

• this time

After she had bought himself a new automobile, she sold her bicycle.

• had bought

• himself

• she sold

• her

5. The next important question we have to decide is when do we have to submit the proposal.

• 5. important

• 5. have to decide

• 5. do we have to

• 5. submit

6. George has not completed the assignment yet, and Maria hasn't neither.

• 6. has not

• 6. the assignment

• 6. yet

• 6. hasn't neither

7. John decided to buy in the morning a new car, but in the afternoon he changed his mind.

• 7. to buy

• 7. in the morning a new car

• 7. in the afternoon

• 7. he changed his mind

8. Some of the plants in this store require very little care, but this one needs much more sunlight than the others ones.

• 8. Some of the plants

• 8. little care

• 8. much more sunlight

• 8. others ones

9. After George had returned to his house, he was reading a book.

• 9. had returned

• 9. to his house

• 9. he

• 9. was reading

10. Many theories on conserving the purity of water has been proposed, but not one has been as widely accepted as this one.

• 10. Many

• 10. has been

• 10. not one has

• 10. as widely accepted