5 exercises — practise linking completed changes to new possibilities with "now that".
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1 / 5
Which sentence correctly uses "now that" to link a completed migration to a newly available option?
"Now that the migration is complete, we can decommission the old cluster" correctly uses "now that" plus a present-tense clause describing a just-finished state, followed by the newly available action with "can". Option B splits "now" and "that" apart, which is not how the fixed connector works. Option C incorrectly uses a future tense inside the "now that" clause, which should describe something already true. Option D pairs "could" with a gerund instead of the bare infinitive "decommission".
2 / 5
Which sentence correctly uses "now that" with a present perfect clause to emphasize a recently finished action?
"Now that the team has adopted trunk-based development, releases happen daily" correctly follows "now that" with a present perfect clause ("has adopted") to stress the relevance of a recent change. Option B garbles the auxiliary and past participle order. Option C incorrectly uses a gerund after "has" instead of the past participle. Option D splits the fixed connector across the sentence, which is ungrammatical.
3 / 5
Which sentence correctly distinguishes "now that" (causal-temporal) from a simple time clause with "when"?
"Now that the feature flag is enabled for all users, we should remove the legacy code path" correctly uses "now that" to link the present, ongoing state to a resulting recommendation. Option B incorrectly combines "when" with "that", which is not a standard connector. Option C mixes "now" and "when" together, which is also non-standard. Option D uses a past-tense clause, weakening the sense that the state still holds now, which "now that" requires.
4 / 5
Which sentence correctly negates the outcome clause after a "now that" cause in a technical recommendation?
"Now that the rate limiter is in place, clients no longer need to implement their own backoff logic" places "no longer" correctly before the main verb "need". Option B misorders "need" and "no longer". Option C creates a double negative by combining "don't" with "no longer". Option D incorrectly inserts "not" into the fixed connector "now that" itself, which distorts its meaning entirely.
5 / 5
Which sentence correctly uses "now that" to open a paragraph in a design document summarizing a completed prerequisite?
"Now that observability has been added across all services, we can confidently roll out canary deployments" correctly opens with the "now that" clause in the present perfect passive, followed by a comma and the resulting main clause. Option B incorrectly uses a gerund after "can confidently" instead of the bare infinitive. Option C moves "now that" to a position where it no longer functions as a connector. Option D is missing the auxiliary "has been" in the passive construction.