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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences and identify any sentence fragments. Select the answer that includes all of the sentence fragments. This question may contain more than one fragment. (1) Isaac Newton was born in Britain in 1642. (2) One of the greatest physicists and mathematicians ever. (3) Newton is best remembered for formulating the universal law of gravitation. (4) As well as laws of motion. (5) He also advanced our knowledge of light and optics. |
| | A) | sentences 2 and 4 |
| | B) | sentence 4 |
| | C) | sentences 1 and 3 |
| | 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. This question may contain more than one fragment. (1) The longest river in Italy. (2) The Po River flows from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea. (3) A distance of 650 kilometres. (4) Its complex delta opens onto the sea in at least 14 different channels. (5) Depositing vast quantities of silt. (6) The city of Adria, once on its shores, is now almost 22 kilometres from the river. |
| | A) | sentence 3 |
| | B) | sentences 5 and 6 |
| | C) | sentences 1, 2, and 3 |
| | D) | sentences 1, 3, and 5 |
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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. There may be more than one error. (1) Living in Mesopotamia, in an area that is now part of Iraq, the Sumerians created the first civilization and the first cities. (2) The clay tablets on which they wrote offer hints about their language scholars await the first Sumerian dictionary, due to be published in 2004. |
| | 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. There may be more than one error. (1) Some communities require residents to abide by lists of bylaws these rules may restrict noise or otherwise aim to enhance residents' quality of life. (2) However, community rules sometimes enforce conformity. (3) In extreme cases, residents may be told how to landscape their yards and what colour to paint their homes. |
| | A) | sentence 1 |
| | B) | sentence 2 |
| | C) | sentence 3 |
| | D) | sentences 2 and 3 |
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Instructions: Read the numbered sentences and identify any comma splice. Select the answer that includes the sentence(s) with comma splices. There may be more than one error. (1) I waited all night to buy good tickets for the only concert I had wanted to attend in years. (2) All of the best seats were taken by scalpers, I was lucky to get any tickets at all. |
| | 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 splice. Select the answer that includes the sentence(s) with comma splices. There may be more than one error. (1) In Australia, many local people think of kangaroos in much the same way as many North Americans think of deer. (2) The animals eat everything in the garden, they also tend to jump in front of cars on dark highways, causing accidents. |
| | A) | sentence 1 |
| | B) | sentence 2 |
| | C) | sentences 1 and 2 |
| | D) | no errors |
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Instructions: Read the two sentences below. Then choose the version that best combines the two. Select the correct answer. The waves were majestic. Surfers came from miles around. |
| | A) | The waves were majestic, surfers came from miles around. |
| | B) | The waves were majestic; so surfers came from miles around. |
| | C) | The waves were majestic; surfers came from miles around. |
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Instructions: Read the two sentences below. Then choose the version that best combines the two. Select the correct answer. Strange coincidences do happen. People like to look for patterns to explain them. |
| | A) | Strange coincidences do happen, which people like to look for patterns to explain them. |
| | B) | Strange coincidences do happen, people like to look for patterns to explain them. |
| | C) | Strange coincidences do happen, but people like to look for patterns to explain them. |
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Instructions: Choose the correct form of the verb. Keep verbs in the tense they appear in. Select the correct answer. I don't know anyone who come from India. |
| | A) | came |
| | B) | comes |
| | 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. Ancient aqueducts and temples still stand as reminders that Rome once ruled the West. |
| | A) | stands |
| | B) | 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 hardest thing about writing short stories are getting started. |
| | A) | is |
| | B) | was |
| | 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. All of the radios were broken; none has been repaired. |
| | A) | was |
| | B) | is |
| | 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 Italy nor Greece import olive oil to my country. |
| | A) | importing |
| | B) | imports |
| | 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. When Pavarotti sang at La Scala in Milan, the audience were enthusiastic. |
| | A) | is |
| | B) | was |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the pronoun from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Statistics, the study of numerical data, takes their name from a Greek word. |
| | A) | its |
| | B) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the pronoun from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. The man who had driven his car into the back of mine apologized. |
| | A) | whom |
| | B) | whose |
| | C) | 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. We saw the difficulty of solving their problem. |
| | A) | seen |
| | B) | seed |
| | C) | see |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Change the verb to the past tense. Select the past tense form of the verb from the answers provided. My heart breaks at seeing that child in rags. |
| | A) | broke |
| | B) | breaked |
| | C) | broken |
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Instructions: One of the items below is in the active voice; the other is in the passive voice. Read the sentences and select the sentence that is written in active voice. |
| | A) | Parts of the old kingdom of Armenia are included in modern Azerbaijan. |
| | B) | Modern Azerbaijan includes parts of the old kingdom of Armenia. |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the pronoun from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Gordon asked Margaret and she to join them. |
| | A) | her |
| | B) | hers |
| | C) | her's |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the pronoun from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. The family who's son married my cousin Sally is from Argentina. |
| | A) | whose |
| | B) | which |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the sentence that best corrects any errors in the original sentence. Select the correct answer. On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong was turned over to the People's Republic of China, a transfer that ended Britain's dominion over the former crown colony. |
| | A) | On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong was turned over to the People's Republic of China, a transfer which ended Britain's dominion over Hong Kong, which was a former crown colony. |
| | B) | On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong was turned over to the People's Republic of China, that ended Britain's dominion over the former crown colony. |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the adjective or adverb from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Whenever I see a rainbow, it seems to be more colourfuler than the last one. |
| | A) | more colourful |
| | B) | colourfuller |
| | C) | most colourful |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the adjective or adverb from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Kayla is the more anxious person I have ever met. |
| | A) | anxiousest |
| | B) | most anxious |
| | C) | more anxiouser |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the adjective or adverb from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. The music director at my school plays the organ good. |
| | A) | the best |
| | B) | well |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the adjective or adverb from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Celebrity trials are quick becoming popular with TV viewers. |
| | A) | quickly |
| | B) | quicker |
| | C) | no change |
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Instructions: Choose the correct version from the following sentences. Select the correct answer. |
| | A) | Exhausted and overheated, the dog lied down in the middle of the road. |
| | B) | Exhausted and overheated, the dog laid down in the middle of the road. |
| | C) | Exhausted and overheated, the dog lay down in the middle of the road. |
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Instructions: Choose the correct version from the following sentences. Select the correct answer. |
| | A) | There wasn't hardly any corn left after the raccoons got into the garden. |
| | B) | There wasn't hardly no corn left after the raccoons got into the garden. |
| | C) | There was hardly no corn left after the raccoons got into the garden. |
| | D) | There was hardly any corn left after the raccoons got into the garden. |
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Instructions: Identify the verb in the following sentence. Select the correct answer. The Roman Republic emerged in the sixth century BCE. |
| | A) | in |
| | B) | century |
| | C) | emerged |
| | D) | Republic |
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Instructions: Read the sentence and select the appropriate helping or linking verb if necessary. Last night, wild turkeys running across the field. |
| | A) | have been running |
| | B) | were running |
| | C) | was running |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the verb from the answers provided. By September, we have been living here for five years. |
| | A) | will have been living |
| | B) | will have living |
| | C) | will be living |
| | D) | will live |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the verb from the answers provided. Silvio had catched malaria by the end of his first week in the tropics. |
| | A) | catched |
| | B) | had caught |
| | C) | have catched |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct version of the following sentence from the answers provided, taking care with the infinitives or gerunds. Before I travelled to South Africa, Dan recommended to read the works of Nadine Gordimer. |
| | A) | Before I travelled to South Africa, Dan recommended reading the works of Nadine Gordimer. |
| | B) | Before I travelled to South Africa, Dan recommended to reading the works of Nadine Gordimer. |
| | C) | Before I travelled, Dan recommended to read the works of Nadine Gordimer. |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct version of the following sentence from the answers provided, taking care with the infinitives or gerunds. To become a professional mathematician, one must having good analytical skills. |
| | A) | To become a professional mathematician, one must have good analytical skills. |
| | B) | One must having good analytical skills to become a professional mathematician. |
| | C) | Having good analytical skills, one must become a professional mathematician. |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct version of the following sentence from the answers provided, taking care with the infinitives or gerunds. Tasha finished to read about the Spanish Civil War, in which her uncle had fought. |
| | A) | Tasha finishing to read about the Spanish Civil War, in which her uncle had fought. |
| | B) | Tasha finished reading about the Spanish Civil War, in which her uncle had fought. |
| | C) | Tasha finishing to reading about the Spanish Civil War, in which her uncle had fought. |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: This item contains one pronoun. Identify that pronoun as personal, relative, indefinite, demonstrative, or reflexive. Select the correct answer. Egotists give themselves great credit for small accomplishments. |
| | A) | personal |
| | B) | relative |
| | C) | indefinite |
| | D) | demonstrative |
| | E) | reflexive |
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Instructions: This item contains one pronoun. Identify that pronoun as personal, relative, indefinite, demonstrative, or reflexive. Select the correct answer. The flatworm, which is among the oldest animals, is an invertebrate. |
| | A) | personal |
| | B) | relative |
| | C) | indefinite |
| | D) | demonstrative |
| | E) | reflexive |
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Instructions: This item contains one pronoun. Identify that pronoun as personal, relative, indefinite, demonstrative, or reflexive. Select the correct answer. "This is the greatest city in the world," the mayoral candidate shouted. |
| | A) | personal |
| | B) | relative |
| | C) | indefinite |
| | D) | demonstrative |
| | E) | reflexive |
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Instructions: Read the sentence and identify the adjectives. From the answers provided, choose the answer that includes all of the adjectives in the sentence. Select the correct answer. In Greek mythology, Persephone was the wife of Hades, ruler of the underworld, and daughter of Zeus, the chief deity. |
| | A) | Greek and chief |
| | B) | Greek, chief, wife, ruler and daughter |
| | C) | Hades, underworld and Zeus |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Instructions: Read the sentence and identify the adjectives. From the answers provided, choose the answer that includes all of the adjectives in the sentence. Select the correct answer. Ponchos are cloaks worn in Latin America; they often take a diamond shape. |
| | A) | cloaks |
| | B) | Latin and diamond |
| | C) | Latin |
| | D) | often |
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Instructions: Read the sentence and identify the adverbs. From the answers provided, choose the answer that includes all of the adverbs in the sentence. Select the correct answer. Economics is a very interesting subject. |
| | A) | interesting |
| | B) | very and interesting |
| | C) | very |
| | D) | none |
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Instructions: Read the sentence and identify the adverbs. From the answers provided, choose the answer that includes all of the adverbs in the sentence. Select the correct answer. The children suffered terribly when their parents suddenly died. |
| | A) | suffered and died |
| | B) | the and their |
| | C) | their |
| | D) | terribly and suddenly |
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Instructions: Select the best corrections to the sentence from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. The earliest printing technology was xylography, a process that used carved carefully blocks of wood to make an impression on a flat surface. |
| | A) | carved blocks of wood carefully |
| | B) | carefully carved blocks |
| | C) | xylography printing |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the best corrections to the sentence from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Printed early texts produced from blocks of wood have come down to us from eighth-century Japan and China. |
| | A) | Early printed texts |
| | B) | Printed early texts from blocks of wood produced |
| | C) | China and Japan eighth-century |
| | D) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the word or words from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. After the professor's explanation, everyone in the class was very confusing. |
| | A) | confused |
| | B) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the word or words from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Your parents should be use to his strange ways. |
| | A) | used |
| | B) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the word or words from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Cursed by a brutal and ignorant world, the "Elephant Man" served as the main attraction at a freak show until his rescue by a medical researcher. |
| | A) | Cursing |
| | B) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the word or words from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. The citizens of Marakena felt badly about the death of their mayor. |
| | A) | bad |
| | B) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the word or words from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. On Sunday morning the freshly baked rolls that my father brought home smelled exquisitely. |
| | A) | exquisite |
| | B) | no change |
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Instructions: Select the correct form of the word or words from the answers provided. Select the correct answer. Because he has a severe cold, Ben can't smell very well. |
| | A) | good |
| | B) | no change |
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