Diagnostic Review
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Which of the following lettered items is not a complete sentence?
(A) Please dream a little dream for me.
(B) Stop!
(C) That which you covet may one day be your millstone.
(D) That he contended was the superior product, which pr - D
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Which of the following underlined items is not an adjective?
(A) the "smartest" student
(B) a "really" bright student
(C) the "tallest" building on the block
(D) a truly "principled" decision - (B) really
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In the sentence, Who wrote "The Book of Love"?, what part of speech is who?
(A) conjunction
(B) noun
(C) pronoun
(D) interjection - (C) pronoun
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Which of the following underlined nouns is also a gerund?
(A) the recently completed "building" is ready for inspection.
(B) a recently pruned "wisteria"
(C) "things" that go bump in the night
(D) & - (D) building on your failures makes you stronger
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Which is the correct punctuation from the choices provided?
The stock market continued to decline today (A), (B); tradining exceeded 1000 million shares. - (B) trading exceeded 100 million shares.
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The sentence, "She is an activist of the first rank" contains a/an
(A) linking
(B) intranstive
(C) transitive
(D) subjunctive mood verb - (A) linking
- (A) Who's (B) Whose responsible for this mess?
- (A) Who's
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Which of the following setences is correctly puntuated?
(A) The firefighters battled back the flames on the ridge but a sudden windburst helped the blaze jump the fire higher.
(B) The firefighters battled back the flames on the ridge; but - (C)
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The witness
(A) who
(B) whom
police believe witnessed the assualt has disappeared. - (A) who
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None of your theories
(A) makes
(B) make
sense. - (A) make
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What
(a) affect
(b) effect
do you think this will have on the team? - (B) effect
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In the sentence, "Morti appears ready for her new challenge." How would you classify the verb?
(A) linking
(B) transitive
(C) intransitive - (A) linking
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"Acting on an anonymous phone call", police today captured arson suspect Toni Davis.
The quoted section is a
(a) verb
(b) subordinate clause
(c) gerund
(d) participial phrase - (d)
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Neither the stadium budget nor the concession contracts
(A) has
(B) have
been reviewed by the city attorney. - (B)
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Good news--the job is
(A) yours!
(B) your's! - (a)
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(A) She
(B) Her
and I are determined to do well this term. - (A) She
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Are you sure that she is smarter than
(A) he?
(B) him? - (A)
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You won't find a beter editor than
(a) she.
(b) her. - (b)
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This disscussion is going
(A) farhter
(B) further
than I intended. - B
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The team's fortunes are definitely on the upswing,
(A) compared to
(B) compared with
its condition just two years ago. - B
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In the sentence, However, I can't accept your argument, what part of speech is however?
(A) conjunction
(B) adverb
(C) preposition
(D) interection - B
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How would you classify this sentence construction: I went to the mall, but my friends weren't there.
(A) simple
(B) compound
(C) complex
(D) fragment - (B)
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How would you classify this sentence construction:
Trying with all his skills to surmount what appeared to be impossible obstacles.
(A) simple
(B) run-on
(C) compound-complex
(D) fragment - (D)
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The team feels
(A) bad
(B) badly
about its overtime loss. - A
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How do you think this loss will
(a) affect
(b) effect
the sportswriters? - (a)
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Please select the incorrectly punctuated sentence:
(A) She is a highly-respected judge.
(B) This is one of those sentences that requires careful proofreading.
(C) Please announce this to your classes: All tests have been cancelled un - A
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This bus
(a) that
(b) which
stops at this corner does not run on Sundays. - (a) that
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(A) Its
(B) It's
not what you say but how you say it that matters in this forum. - B
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Your attempt will fail
(A) , because
(B) because
(C) ; because
you don't have the support of rank and file. - B
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The university is deeply interested in
(A) it's
(B) their
(C) its
(D) they're
alumni. - C
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) noticable
(b) judgment
(c) relavant - b
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) presumtous
(b) embarassed
(c) dillemma - all incorrect
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) corruption
(b) calender
(c) wierd - a
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) rarely
(b) rarety
(c) rarify - a
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) navigeble
(b) yeild
(c) irrevocable - c
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) accommodate
(b) accummulate
(c) reccommend - a
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) relavent
(b) antecedant
(c) superintendant - a
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) proceed
(b) preceed
(c) receed - a
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) consensus
(b) supercede
(c) definate - a
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) questionairre
(b) hankerchief
(c) excuseable - all incorrect
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) acceptible
(b) accumulate
(c) cancelation - b
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) accessable
(b) irresistable
(c) forcible - c
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) weird
(b) weild
(c) sheild - a
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) harrassment
(b) embarassment
(c) prevalance - all incorrect
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Choose the correct spelling, or are they all incorrect:
(a) siege
(b) sieze
(c) seive - A
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This recipe is
(A) composed of
(b) comprised of
six "secret" ingredients. - a
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I don't understand
(a) your
(b) you
campaigning for someone who is so narrow minded. - a
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Baseball is one of those game that
(a) doesn't require
(b) don't require
a mastery of rules in order to enjoy it. - B
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Would you please return the spotted amadillo to
(a) its
(b) it's
lawful owner? - a
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The witness needs to
(a) lay
(b) lie
down and gather his composure before continuing his tesmimony, - b
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Brutal storms are delaying what is left of the fall harvest
(a) ,
(b) ;
however, clear weather is forecast for next week. - b
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The students are
(a) anxious
(b) eager
to begin the new term. - b
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The guards detained
(a) we
(b) us
reporters at the plant gate. - b
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You should be concerned about sores
(a) that
(b) which
do not heal normally. - a
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In what case is the underlined pronoun in the following sentence?
"Their" presentation really impressed the judges.
(a) nominative
(b) genitive
(c) objective
(d) possessive - d
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The news media
(a) is
(b) are
under attack again. - b
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Rick always remembered this:
(A) The
(b) the
fundamental things apply as time goes by. - a
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Have you finished your project on "The Tale of Two
(a) cities?"
(b) cities"? - b
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The city council has decided to revise
(a) its
(b) their
charter - a
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Don't you think she has a
(a) good-natured
(b) good natured
(c) good, natured
personality? - a
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(A) Her's
(B) Hers
is the office at the end of the hall. - b
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What kind of grammatical error is demonstrated in this construction:
(a) run-on sentence
(b) dangling modifier
(c) sentence fragment
(d) over-subordination - b
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Among the recently discovered documents from the apartment of the former secretary of state
(a) is
(b) are
several shoe boxes full of undeposited campaign contribution checks. - b
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I am convinced that the country needs
(a) fewer
(b) less
rude grammarians. - a
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I don't believe that you have
(a) proved
(b) proven
your case. - a