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Instructions: Read the following sentence. Select the correct form of the word or words from the choices offered. Students should get parking permits for their cars, and you need an ID card as well. |
| | A) | they |
| | B) | no change |
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Instructions: Read the following sentence. Select the correct form of the word or words from the choices offered. The scientist noticed the problem, and the solution was found by him soon after. |
| | A) | the solution had been found |
| | B) | the solution was discovered by him |
| | C) | he found the solution |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Read the following sentence. Select the correct form of the word or words from the choices offered. If she wins the lottery, she would quit her job. |
| | A) | If she won the lottery, she would quit her job. |
| | B) | If she would win the lottery, she would quit her job. |
| | C) | If she won the lottery, she is quitting her job. |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: The following item contains three versions of the same sentence. Click the button next to the letter of the correct version. |
| | A) | Every time Charlotte has gone to Europe she enjoys eating in expensive restaurants. |
| | B) | Every time Charlotte went to Europe she enjoys eating in expensive restaurants. |
| | C) | Every time Charlotte goes to Europe she enjoys eating in expensive restaurants. |
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Instructions: The following item contains three versions of the same sentence. Click the button next to the letter of the correct version. |
| | A) | Fire destroyed the village, and the countryside was burned. |
| | B) | Fire destroyed the village and burned the countryside. |
| | C) | Fire destroyed the village and burns the countryside. |
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Instructions: The following item contains three versions of the same sentence. Click the button next to the letter of the correct version. |
| | A) | Toronto is famous for its cultural festivals, its great restaurants, and it has the CN Tower. |
| | B) | Toronto is famous for its cultural festivals, its great restaurants, and the CN Tower. |
| | C) | Toronto is famous for cultural festivals, having great restaurants, and the CN Tower. |
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Instructions: The following item contains three versions of the same sentence. Click the button next to the letter of the correct version. |
| | A) | Landing a man on the moon in 1969 took technical know-how, courage, and it cost a lot of money. |
| | B) | Landing a man on the moon in 1969 took technical know-how, courage, and lots of money. |
| | C) | Landing a man on the moon in 1969 took technical know-how, it took courage, and money. |
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Instructions: The following item contains three versions of the same sentence. Click the button next to the letter of the correct version. |
| | A) | Before leaving for the weekend we have to wash the dishes, make the beds, and cleaning the house. |
| | B) | Before leaving for the weekend we have to wash the dishes, make the beds, and clean the house. |
| | C) | Before leaving for the weekend we have to wash the dishes, and also make the beds, and clean the house. |
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Instructions: Select the correct word or words from the answers provided. The Kiowa Indians, who now number about 10,000, allied themselves with the Comanche against further white settlement during the nineteenth century. |
| | A) | allies |
| | B) | is allied |
| | C) | were allied |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct word or words from the answers provided. When Charles Kingsley, an English clergyman, disparaged Roman Catholic clergy, John Cardinal Newman's Apology responded. |
| | A) | Newman's Apology will respond |
| | B) | Newman responded with his Apology |
| | C) | Newman has been responding with his Apology |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: The following item contains three versions of the same sentence. Click the button next to the letter of the correct version. |
| | A) | Blazing across the sky, the astronomer watched the comet. |
| | B) | The astronomer watched the comet blazing across the sky. |
| | C) | Watching the comet, the astronomer blazed across the sky. |
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Instructions: The following item contains three versions of the same sentence. Click the button next to the letter of the correct version. |
| | A) | While searching for a job, the classified ads section of the newspaper was what I read. |
| | B) | I read the classified ads section of the newspaper while I was searching for a job. |
| | C) | The classified ads section of the newspaper, while searching for a job, was what I read. |
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Instructions: The following item contains three versions of the same sentence. Click the button next to the letter of the correct version. |
| | A) | Having played well offensively and defensively, the loss was bitter. |
| | B) | The loss, having played well offensively and defensively, was bitter to the team. |
| | C) | Because the team played well offensively and defensively, the loss was bitter. |
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Instructions: The following item contains three versions of the same sentence. Click the button next to the letter of the correct version. |
| | A) | Wearing one of the strangest hats I've ever seen, the car drove right through the centre of town. |
| | B) | The car, wearing one of the strangest hats I've ever seen, drove right through the centre of town. |
| | C) | Wearing one of the strangest hats I've ever seen, Aunt Jesse drove the car right through the centre of town. |
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Instructions: The following item contains three versions of the same sentence. Click the button next to the letter of the correct version. |
| | A) | Before taking the exam, the students asked the teacher for pencils. |
| | B) | Before taking the exam, pencils were requested of the teacher. |
| | C) | Before taking the exam, the teacher was asked for pencils. |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences, and identify any sentence fragments. Select the answer that includes all of the sentence fragments. An item may contain more than one fragment. (1) The smoothest and most efficient highways of the early nineteenth century. (2) Canals are artificial water routes used to transport people and cargo. (3) Canal barges were powered by teams of mules, which would tow them from shore. (4) Later, with the invention of the steam engine. (5) Railroads quickly replaced canals as the fastest and cheapest means of transportation. |
| | A) | sentences 2 and 4 |
| | B) | sentence 4 |
| | C) | sentences 1 and 4 |
| | D) | sentences 2, 3, and 5 |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences, and identify any sentence fragments. Select the answer that includes all of the sentence fragments. An item may contain more than one fragment. (1) Born to a family of Irish immigrants in Pennsylvania. (2) Robert Fulton, a friend of Benjamin Franklin. (3) Was a talented painter and designer. (4) Fulton painted miniatures as well as large panoramas. (5) He also worked on the design and development of such things as marble saws, spinning devices, submarines, canal boats, and torpedoes. (6) He is best remembered for producing the first steamboat to operate successfully on the Hudson River in 1809. |
| | A) | sentences 2, 3, and 4 |
| | B) | sentences 4, 5, and 6 |
| | C) | sentences 1 and 3 |
| | D) | sentences 1, 2, and 3 |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences, and identify any sentence fragments. Select the answer that includes all of the sentence fragments. An item may contain more than one fragment. (1) A well-ordered unit of pike-bearing infantrymen. (2) The Greek hoplite phalanx was the backbone of Alexander the Great's army. (3) The soldiers wore heavy armour, carried large shields, and wielded swords and pikes. (4) Stood closely and protected each other by overlapping their shields in front of them. (5) Entering battle, the soldiers would first attack with the sharp pikes, which could be nine feet long. (6) Then they would finish the battle with their swords. |
| | A) | sentences 3, 5, and 6 |
| | B) | sentences 1 and 4 |
| | C) | sentences 1 and 5 |
| | D) | sentences 2, 3, and 4 |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences, and identify any sentence fragments. Select the answer that includes all of the sentence fragments. An item may contain more than one fragment. (1) An Italian physicist and astronomer. (2) Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy in the sixteenth century. (3) Often credited with the invention of the telescope. (4) Galileo actually only improved on something already invented in Holland. (5) But with his improved telescope Galileo discovered four of Jupiter's moons, explored the surface of the moon, discovered sunspots and the phases of Venus, and mapped the Milky Way. |
| | A) | sentences 2, 4, and 5 |
| | B) | sentence 1 |
| | C) | sentences 1 and 3 |
| | D) | sentence 5 |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences, and identify any sentence fragments. Select the answer that includes all of the sentence fragments. An item may contain more than one fragment. (1) During his lifetime Socrates wrote nothing down. (2) Teaching on the streets and in the open markets of Athens. (3) Socrates believed that true knowledge could be gained only through the process of discussion. (4) His method was to ask questions. (5) Insisting on the ignorance of most people, including himself. (6) Socrates provoked the wrath of many important citizens. (7) At the age of seventy he was tried, convicted, and executed on charges of atheism and corrupting the young. |
| | A) | sentences 2 and 5 |
| | B) | sentences 1, 3, 4, and 6 |
| | C) | sentences 6 and 7 |
| | D) | sentences 1, 2, and 5 |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences and identify any comma splices. Select the answer that includes the sentence(s) with comma splices. An item may contain more than one error. (1) The entire house is filled with stacks of books and newspapers. (2) It's impossible to find anything, the place is a real mess. |
| | A) | sentence 1 |
| | B) | sentence 2 |
| | C) | sentences 1 and 2 |
| | D) | no errors |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences and identify any comma splices. Select the answer that includes the sentence(s) with comma splices. An item may contain more than one error. (1) An important writer from the Age of Enlightenment, Denis Diderot published a 35-volume encyclopedia on the eve of the French Revolution. (2) He wanted to summarize all knowledge, he also wanted to dispel superstition. |
| | A) | sentence 1 |
| | B) | sentence 2 |
| | C) | sentences 1 and 2 |
| | D) | no errors |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences, and identify any fused or run-on sentences. Select the answer that includes all of the fused and run-on sentences. An item may contain more than one error. (1) Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass escaped at the age of twenty. (2) By the time he was twenty-four he was an important spokesperson for the abolition movement he published his famous biography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, when he was only twenty-seven. |
| | A) | sentence 1 |
| | B) | sentence 2 |
| | C) | sentences 1 and 2 |
| | D) | no errors |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences, and identify any fused or run-on sentences. Select the answer that includes all of the fused and run-on sentences. An item may contain more than one error. (1) Romanticism was a nineteenth-century artistic and literary movement that valued emotion over reason intuition was more important to the romantics than formal, disciplined intellectual thought. (2) Romantics believed in the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions and feelings. (3) In retrospect, romanticism could be viewed as a reaction to the Age of Reason, which preceded it. |
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| | B) | sentence 2 |
| | C) | sentence 3 |
| | D) | sentences 2 and 3 |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences, and identify any fused or run-on sentences. Select the answer that includes all of the fused and run-on sentences. An item may contain more than one error. (1) The term "realism" was first used in 1850 to describe a painting by Courbet, the painting was realistic. (2) Realism emerged in the mid-nineteenth century as a response to romanticism. (3) It too was an artistic and literary movement, but unlike romanticism, which idealized the world, realism tried to show the world as it was. |
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| | B) | sentence 2 |
| | C) | sentence 3 |
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Instructions: Change the verbs to the present tense. Select the present tense form of the verb from the answers provided. The child awoke at the sound of her father's singing. |
| | A) | awakes |
| | B) | woke up |
| | C) | will wake |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Change the verbs to the present tense. Select the present tense form of the verb from the answers provided. John was a mathematics teacher at the local high school. |
| | A) | has been |
| | B) | is |
| | C) | will be |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Change the verbs to the present tense. Select the present tense form of the verb from the answers provided. The rain beat on the tin roof of the old house. |
| | A) | beats |
| | B) | was beating |
| | C) | will beat |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Change the verbs to the present tense. Select the present tense form of the verb from the answers provided. Running became easier after the first two miles. |
| | A) | will become |
| | B) | has become |
| | C) | becomes |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Change the verbs to the present tense. Select the present tense form of the verb from the answers provided. The fairy tale began with "Once upon a time . . . ." |
| | A) | will begin |
| | B) | begins |
| | C) | is beginning |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the pronoun from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Miriam supervises Matthew, Gerald, and he. |
| | A) | her |
| | B) | him |
| | C) | his |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the pronoun from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Of all of the rulers of ancient Rome, Augustus Caesar was the one who I consider most interesting. |
| | A) | whom |
| | B) | whose |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the pronoun from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Whoever we elect to the committee will serve for two years. |
| | A) | Who |
| | B) | Whomever |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the pronoun from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. In the early 1990s, the iron curtain crumbled, which led to the reunification of Germany. |
| | A) | that |
| | B) | who |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Choose the correct form of the verb. Keep verbs in the tense they appear in. Select the correct answer. The Italians has developed a fine cuisine. |
| | A) | have developed |
| | B) | has develops |
| | C) | have develop |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Choose the correct form of the verb. Keep verbs in the tense they appear in. Select the correct answer. Dominique and Francisco dances during the flamenco show. |
| | A) | dance |
| | B) | no change |
| | C) | danced |
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Instructions: Choose the correct form of the verb. Keep verbs in the tense they appear in. Select the correct answer. Many experts in mental health opposes the use of medication. |
| | A) | oppose |
| | B) | opposed |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Choose the correct form of the verb. Keep verbs in the tense they appear in. Select the correct answer. In my class, everyone participate in the writing of group projects. |
| | A) | participated |
| | B) | participates |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Choose the correct form of the verb. Keep verbs in the tense they appear in. Select the correct answer. Neither Julia nor Sylvia buy clothes at full price. |
| | A) | bought |
| | B) | buys |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Choose the correct form of the verb. Keep verbs in the tense they appear in. Select the correct answer. The jury have been trying to make a decision for over a week now. |
| | A) | has |
| | B) | having |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects the sentence provided. Select the correct answer. No matter how hard he banged the door would not open. |
| | A) | No matter, how hard he banged the door would not open. |
| | B) | No, matter how hard he banged the door would not open. |
| | C) | No matter how hard he banged the door, would not open. |
| | D) | No matter how hard he banged, the door would not open. |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects the sentence provided. Select the correct answer. Sir John A. Macdonald was Canada's first prime minister and a Father of Confederation but his achievements were diminished by the Northwest Rebellion in 1885. |
| | A) | Sir John A. Macdonald, was Canada's first prime minister and a Father of Confederation, but his achievements were diminished by the Northwest Rebellion in 1885. |
| | B) | Sir John A. Macdonald was Canada's first prime minister and a Father of Confederation but his achievements were, diminished by, the Northwest Rebellion in 1885. |
| | C) | Sir John A. Macdonald was Canada's first prime minister and a Father of Confederation, but his achievements were diminished by the Northwest Rebellion in 1885. |
| | D) | Sir John A. Macdonald, was Canada's first prime minister and a Father of Confederation but his, achievements were diminished by the Northwest Rebellion in 1885. |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects the sentence provided. Select the correct answer. The coral snake which resembles the nonpoisonous king snake has deadlier venom, than any other creature in the United States. |
| | A) | The coral snake which resembles the nonpoisonous king snake, has deadlier venom, than any other creature in the United States. |
| | B) | The coral snake, which resembles the nonpoisonous king snake has deadlier venom than any other creature, in the United States. |
| | C) | The coral snake which resembles the nonpoisonous king snake has deadlier venom than any other creature, in the United States. |
| | D) | The coral snake, which resembles the nonpoisonous king snake, has deadlier venom than any other creature in the United States. |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects the sentence provided. Select the correct answer. Martha was born in Daniel's Harbour Newfoundland. |
| | A) | Martha, was born in Daniel's Harbour Newfoundland. |
| | B) | Martha was born in Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland. |
| | C) | Martha, was born, Daniel's Harbour Newfoundland. |
| | D) | Martha was born, Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland. |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects the sentence provided. Select the correct answer. As I was preparing to return to Canada I found that I had misplaced my passport. |
| | A) | As I was preparing to return to Canada I found, that I had misplaced my passport. |
| | B) | As I was preparing, to return to Canada, I found, that I had misplaced my passport. |
| | C) | As I was preparing to return to Canada, I found that I had misplaced my passport. |
| | D) | As I was preparing to return to Canada, I found, that I had misplaced, my passport. |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects the sentence provided. Select the correct answer. Indians who inhabited Upper and Lower Canada include the Huron, the Ojibwa and the Cree. |
| | A) | Indians who inhabited Upper and Lower Canada include the Huron, the Ojibwa, and the Cree. |
| | B) | Indians, who inhabited Upper and Lower Canada, include the Huron, the Ojibwa, and the Cree. |
| | C) | Indians who inhabited Upper and Lower Canada, include the Huron, the Ojibwa, and the Cree. |
| | D) | Indians, who inhabited Upper and Lower Canada include the Huron, the Ojibwa, and the Cree. |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects the sentence provided. Select the correct answer. She gave her daughter her Aunt Marys desk, which had been in the family for over forty years. |
| | A) | She gave her daughter her Aunt Mary's desk, which had been in the family for over forty years. |
| | B) | She gave her daughter her Aunt Marys' desk, which had been in the family for over forty years. |
| | C) | She gave her daughter her Aunt Marys desk, which had been in the family for over forty year's. |
| | D) | She gave her daughter her Aunt Marys desk, which had been in the family for over forty years'. |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects the sentence provided. Select the correct answer. My dentist was briefly mentioned in an article called License to "Steal." |
| | A) | My dentist was briefly mentioned in an "article called License to Steal." |
| | B) | My dentist was briefly mentioned in an article called License to Steal. |
| | C) | My "dentist" was briefly mentioned in an article called License to Steal. |
| | D) | My dentist was briefly mentioned in an article called "License to Steal." |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects the sentence provided. Select the correct answer. Walt Whitman he once worked for the Brooklyn Eagle was honoured at the Journalism Hall of Fame. |
| | A) | Walt Whitman (he once worked for the Brooklyn Eagle was honoured) at the Journalism Hall of Fame. |
| | B) | (Walt Whitman) he once worked for the Brooklyn Eagle was honoured at the Journalism Hall of Fame. |
| | C) | Walt Whitman (he once worked for the Brooklyn Eagle) was honoured at the Journalism Hall of Fame. |
| | D) | (Walt Whitman he once worked for the Brooklyn Eagle was honoured at the) Journalism Hall of Fame. |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects the sentence provided. Select the correct answer. There are four steps in the writing process gathering information, drafting, revising, and editing. |
| | A) | There are four steps in the writing--process gathering information, drafting, revising, and editing. |
| | B) | There are four steps in the writing process--gathering information, drafting, revising, and editing. |
| | C) | There are four steps--in the writing process gathering information, drafting, revising, and editing. |
| | D) | There are four steps in the writing process--gathering information--drafting--revising--and editing. |
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