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- 1. Multiple Choice
1. Read this sentence:
When water is applied either to the roots or foliage of a plant, it should have been of medium temperature.
Which edit should be made to correct this sentence?
a. change is to will be
b. change applied to applying
c. change have been to be
d. change of medium to to medium
- 2. Multiple Choice
2. Read this sentence:
It have been the desire of every American to see New York, the largest and most wonderful city in the country.
Which edit should be made to correct this sentence?
e. change have been to is
f. change to see to seeing
g. change to see to had been seeing
h. change in to of
- 3. Multiple Choice
3. Read this sentence:
The city is finely built, and had presented an aspect of industry and liveliness unsurpassed by any place in the world.
Which edit should be made to correct this sentence?
a. change is to will be
b. change had presented to has presented
c. change had presented to presents
d. change unsurpassed to unsurpassing
- 4. Multiple Choice
4. Read this paragraph:
(1) The population of New York in 1870 according to the United States census, was 942,337. (2) There can be no doubt that at the present time the island contains over 8,000,000 residents. (3) Thousands of people doing business in New York reside in the vicinity, in the suburbs of Westchester or Long Island, or even in New Jersey, and enter and are leaving the city every morning and evening. (4) Thousands of strangers pack on to buses and trains to come and go daily.
Which pair of revisions need to be made in the paragraph?
e. Sentence 1: Delete the comma after census.
Sentence 2: Change contains to contained.
f. Sentence 1: Insert a comma after 1870.
Sentence 3: Change are leaving to leave.
g. Sentence 1: Change was to is.
Sentence 3: Delete the comma after vicinity.
h. Sentence 3: Change doing to did.
Sentence 4: Insert a comma after trains.
- 5. Multiple Choice
5. Read this sentence:
From the beginning of time, men have not only used their hands but their intellect and their imagination; they have had to work or starve, but they have also saw the world, thought about it and dreamed about it.
Which edit should be made to correct this sentence?
a. change have not to are not
b. change used to using
c. change saw to seen
d. change thought to thinking
- 6. Multiple Choice
6. Read this sentence:
At the very start courage and strength are necessary if life was to be preserved and humans were to live together in safety and with comfort.
Which edit should be made to correct this sentence?
e. change are necessary to were necessary
f. change was to be to are to be
g. change to be preserved to preserving
h. change were to live to live
- 7. Multiple Choice
7. Read this sentence:
The Pyramid of Giza is listed among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; it is thirty times larger in volume than the Empire State Building, and its features are so large that they could have been seen from the Moon.
Which edit should be made to correct this sentence
A. change is listed to had been listed
B. change is thirty to has been thirty
C. change are to will be
D. change could have been seen to can be seen
- 8. Multiple Choice
8. Read this paragraph:
(1) Insects come in various forms, but as a rule the mature ones have three pairs of legs, one pair of feelers, one pair of large eyes, and one or two pairs of wings. (2) The body is divided into a head, thorax, and abdomen.
(3) The head is bearing the eyes, the feelers, and the mouth, the thorax bears the legs and the wings, and the abdomen is made up of a number of segments. (4) The presence of wings indicates whether or not a creature is an insect, for, aside from bats and birds only insects have true wings.
Which pair of revisions need to be made in the paragraph?
E. Sentence 1: Delete the comma after forms.
Sentence 2: Change is to was.
F. Sentence 1: Change come to have come.
Sentence 3: Delete the comma after eyes.
G. Sentence 3: Change is bearing to bears.
Sentence 4: Insert a comma after birds.
H. Sentence 3: Insert a comma after abdomen.
Sentence 4: Change indicates to has indicated.
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