Sentence Correction Home Exercise 01, DIRECTIONS for questions 11 to 15:

DIRECTIONS for questions 11 to 15: Each of the following questions consists of a sentence, with some parts of it underlined which could be erroneous. From among the choices given, you have to select an answer that is the best possible replacement for the underlined part of the key sentence. While choosing the right answer, please pay particular attention to the syntax, idiom, usage and economy of words being used.

11.   According to the professor’s philosophy, the antidote to envy is one’s own work, always one’s own work: not thinking about it, not assessing it, but simple doing it.

A.      One’s own work, always one’s own work: not thinking about it, not assessing it, but simply doing it

B.      Always work; because you don’t think about it or assess it, you just do it

C.      Always one’s own work; not thinking about or assessing it, but simple to do it

D.      Not to think or assess, but doing one’s own work

12.   According to United States Air Force officials, cannon’s shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate what kind of damage can result when jets fly into a flock of large birds.

A.      Shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate

B.      Shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved itself as a demonstration of

C.      Shooting dead chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful as demonstrating

D.      That shoots dead chickens at airplanes has proved  helpful in demonstrating

13.    Acid rain and snow result from the chemical reactions between industrial emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides with atmospheric water vapor to produce highly corrosive sulfuric and nitric acids.

A.      With atmospheric water vapour to produce highly corrosive sulphuric and nitric acidic

B.      With atmospheric water vapour producing highly corrosive sulphuric and nitric acids

C.      And atmospheric water vapour which has produced highly corrosive sulphuric and nitric acids.

D.      And atmospheric water vapour to produce highly corrosive sulphuric and nitric acids

14.   Added to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

A.      Added to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

B.      Added to the increase in hourly wages which had been requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

C.      The railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits added to the increase in hourly wages that were requested last July.

D.       In addition to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

15.   Adult survivors of child abuse traditionally have little or no chance that they could get their symptoms recognized and treated.

A.      That they could get their symptoms recognized and treated

B.      To recognize and treat their symptoms

C.      Of getting their symptoms recognized and treated

D.      Of recognizing and treating symptoms

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Sentence Correction Home Exercise 01, DIRECTIONS for questions 6 to 10:

DIRECTIONS for questions 6 to 10: Each of the following questions consists of a sentence, with some parts of it underlined which could be erroneous. From among the choices given, you have to select an answer that is the best possible replacement for the underlined part of the key sentence. While choosing the right answer, please pay particular attention to the syntax, idiom, usage and economy of words being used.

6.       Although the manger agreed to a more flexible work schedule, he said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor will know what everyone is assigned to do.

A.      He said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labour will know what everyone is

B.      He said it had to be posted on the bulletin board so hat both management and labour knows what everyone is

C.      He said that they would have to post the assignments on the bulletin board so that management and labour knew what everyone was 

D.      He said that the schedule would have to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labour would know what everyone was.

7.       Although the phenomenon of withdrawal has always been the crucial physiological parameter for distinguishing addictive from non-addictive drugs, it has become increasingly evident that not all regular heroin users experience withdrawal symptoms.

A.      Addictive from

B.      Addictive and

C.      Addictive or

D.      Between addictive or

8.       According to surveys by the National institute on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, doubling those reported in the 1977 survey.

A.      Doubling those reported in the 1977 survey.

B.      To double the number the 1977 survey reported.

C.      Twice those the 1977 survey reported.

D.      Twice the number reported in h 1977 survey.

9.        According to the Better Business Bureau, if you fail to advertise the highest price in a range of prices for a service or product as prominently as that of the lowest, it violates the New York Consumer Protection Law.

A.      If you fail to adveritse the highest price in a range of prices for a service or product as prominently as that of the lowest, it

B.      If one fails to advertise the highest price in a range of prices for a service of prodect as prominently as the lowest price, it

C.      Failure to advertise the highest price in a range of prices for a service or product as prominently as the lowest

D.      Failure to advertise as prominently the highest price in a range of prices for a service or product as the lowest

10.   According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, which has already been approaching 19 pounds a year, will achieve 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century.

A.      According to the national Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, which has already been approaching 19 pounds a year, will achieve 30 pounds a year by the twenty- first century.

B.      Already approaching 19 pounds a year in the United States, the National Pasta Association predicts that per-capita consumption of pasta will reach 30 pounds a year by the twenty –first century.

C.      The national pasta association predicts by the twenty –first century that per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States, which is already approaching 19 pounds a year, will reach 30 pounds a year.

D.      According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States is already approaching 19 pounds a year and will reach 30 pounds a year by the twenty- first century.

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Sentence Correction Home Exercise 01

DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 5: Each of the following questions consists of a sentence, with some parts of it underlined which could be erroneous. From among the choices given, you have to select an answer that is the best possible replacement for the underlined part of the key sentence. While choosing the right answer, please pay particular attention to the syntax, idiom, usage and economy of words being used.

1.       After this year’s record-shattering January performance in Madison Square garden , the ensemble were touted as the  country’s best new group in decades; no critic or reviewer had anything but praise for the young musicians.

A.      The ensemble were touted as the country’s

B.      The ensemble were touted as the country’s

C.       The country touted the ensemble like the

D.      Touting the ensemble as the country’s

2.       Along with the drop in produces prices announced yesterday, the strong retail sales figures released today seem like it is indicative that the economy, although growing slowly, is not nearing a recession.

A.      Like it is indicative that

B.      As if to indicate

C.      To indicate that

D.      Indicative of

3.       In January 1994 an oil barge ran aground off the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, leaking its cargo of 750000 gallons into the ocean, while causing the pollution of  the city’s beaches.

A.      Leaking its cargo of 750000 gallons into the ocean, while causing the pollution of

B.      With its cargo of 750000 gallons leaking into the ocean, and it polluted

C.      And its cargo of 750000 gallons leaked into the ocean, polluting

D.      While it leaked its cargo of 750000 gallons into the ocean and caused the pollution of

4.       Japan’s abundant rainfall and the typically mild temperature throughout most of the country have produced a lush vegetation cover and, despite the mountainous terrain and generally poor, soils, it has made possible the raising of a variety of crops.

A.      It has made possible the raising of

B.      Has made possible for them to raise

C.      Have made it possible to raise

D.      Have made it possible for raising

5.       The record of the past is always incomplete, and the historian who writes about it inevitable reflects  the preoccupations of their own time.

A.      the historian who writes about it inevitably reflects

B.      the historian writing about it will inevitably reflect

C.      a historian writing about it inevitably reflects

D.      historians in writing about it inevitable reflect

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