Sentence Correction Home Exercise 03,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 choice given, you have to select an answer that is the 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.       Down zoning , zoning that typically results in the reduction of housing density, allows for more open space in areas where little water or services exist.

A.      Little water or services exist

B.      Little water or services exists

C.      Few services and little water exists

D.      There are few services and little available water

7.         Dr. Hakuta’s research among Hispanic children in the United States indicates that the more the children use both Spanish and English; their intellectual advantage is greater in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic.

A.      Their intellectual advantage is greater in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic

B.      Their intellectual advantage is the greater in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic

C.      The greater their intellectual advantage in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic

D.      in skills that underlay reading ability and nonverbal logic, their intellectual advantage is the greater

8.       Dr. Hegsted argues that just as polio vaccine is given to every person to protect the few who might actually contract polio; mass dietary change is needed to protect the significant numbers who are susceptible to the life- threatening effects of press eating habits.

A.      Just as polio vaccine is given to every person to protect the few who might actually contract polio

B.      Like as polio vaccine , which is given to every person to protect the few who might contract polio

C.      Similar to polio vaccine which his  given to every person in order to protect the few who might actually contract polio

D.       While , to protect the few who might actually contract polio ,polio vaccine is given to every person

9.       Dr. Sayre’s lecture recounted several little-known episodes in the relations between nations that illustrate what is wrong with alliances and treaties that do not have popular support.

A.      Relation between nations that illustrates

B.      Relation of one nation with another that illustrates

C.      Relations between nations that illustrate

D.      Relation of one nation with another and illustrate

10.   Dr. Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for discovering how the body can constantly change its genes to fashion a seeming unlimited number of antibodies each specifically targeted at an invading microbe or foreign substance.

A.      Seeming unlimited number of antibodies, each specifically targeted at

B.      Seeming unlimited number of antibodies, each targeted specifically to

C.      Seeming unlimited number of antibodies, all specifically targeted at

D.      Seemingly unlimited number of antibodies, each targeted specifically at

Answer: 

Sentence Correction Home Exercise 02, 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 to select an answer the 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.       Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French through the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that if they did not hold, it their grip on Algeria was always insecure.

A.      If they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure

B.      Without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure

C.      Their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it

D.      without that, they could never be secure about  their grip on Algeria

7.       After a few weeks’ experience, apprentice jewelers can usually begin to discriminate, though not with absolute certainty, genuine diamonds from imitation diamonds.

A.      Genuine diamonds from imitation diamonds

B.      Genuine diamonds apart from imitations

C.      Between genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds

D.      Among genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds.

8.       After crude oil, natural gas is the United States Second biggest fuel source and supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America.

A.      After crude oil, natural gas is the United States second biggest fuel source and supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America.

B.      Natural gas, after crude oil the United States second biggest fuel source, supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America.

C.      Being supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America, natural gas, the United States second biggest fuel source after crude oil.

D.      Natural gas, the United States’ second biggest fuel source after crude oil, is supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America.

9.        After gradual declension down to about 39 hours in 1970, the workweek in the United States has steadily increased to the point that the average worker now puts in an estimated 164 extra hours paid labor a year.

A.      After gradual declension down

B.      Following a gradual declension down

C.      After gradual declining down

D.      After gradually declining

10.   After July, anyone disposing of or servicing refrigerators must capture the cholorofluocations in the refrigerant chemicals.

A.      Anyone disposing of or servicing

B.      Those who dispose or service

C.      Anyone disposing of or who services

D.      The disposal or repair of

Answer:  

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.

Answer: 

Sentence Completion Home Exercise – 01, Directions for questions 6 to 10:

Directions for questions 6 to 10: Each sentence in this part has one or two missing elements, as indicated by a series of dashes. Following the sentence, you will see lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

 

6. It was her view that the country’s problems had been ___ by foreign technocrats, so that to invite them to come back would be counterproductive.

        A. foreseen       B. attacked      C. ascertained           D. exacerbated 

7. Philosophical problems arise when people ask questions, that though very ____ have certain characteristics in common.

       A.    relevant             B. elementary         C.   Abstract     D. diverse

8. Cynics believe that people who ______ compliments do so in order to be praised twice.

        A. bask in     B. shrug off     C. despair of     D. gloat over

9.   Kagan maintains that an infant’s reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ------ signs of adolescent anxiety.

         A. prophetic      B. normal     C.    Monotonous           D. virtual 

10. The breathing spell provided by the ____ arms shipments should give all the combatants a chance to reevaluate their positions.

          A. plethora of    B. moratorium on     C.  Reciprocation of    D. concentration on

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