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Sentence Correction Practice Test

Practice test for English sentence correction skills covering grammar, sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, parallelism, and proper phrasing.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Large numbers of people those who are educated are not able to make any use of their education because they are day dreamers.

  1. Large numbers of people those who are educated are not able to make
  2. Large number of educated people are not able to make
  3. Large number of people those who are educated, are not making
  4. Large number of people who are educated are not able to make
  5. Large number of people are educated who are not able to make
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

This unprincipled and nefarious practice is now applied to almost every commodity which can be classed among either the necessaries or the luxuries of life.

  1. classed among either the necessaries or the luxuries of life
  2. classed among either necessaries or luxuries of life
  3. classed between either the necessaries or the luxuries of life
  4. classed between either the necessities or the luxuries of life
  5. classed among either the necessities or the luxuries of life
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

It was found that a mass of the living roots of the old strong elm near had twined about and entered the structure through the apertures.

  1. the living roots of the old strong elm near
  2. the living roots of an old strong elm near
  3. living roots of old strong elm nearby
  4. the living roots of the old and strong elm near
  5. the living roots of an old strong elm near by
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.

The old weather-beaten or time-eaten slab with their curious lettering designate the spots where many of the men of the pre-revolutionary epoch were laid to their last repose.

  1. The old weather-beaten or time-eaten slab with their curious lettering
  2. The old weather-beaten and time-eaten slabs with their curious lettering
  3. The old weather-beaten or time-eaten slabs with their curious lettering
  4. The old weather-beaten or time-eaten slab with its curious lettering
  5. The old weather-beaten and the old time-eaten slabs with their curious lettering
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Giant Squid, a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae, lives at depths up to one km, where it was long thought that it was immune from human intervention.

  1. was long thought that it was immune from
  2. was long thought to have become immune from
  3. was long thought as being immune to
  4. was long thought to be immune to
  5. was long thought to have been immune to
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The spurious articles are made up so skillfully as to baffle the discrimination of the most experienced judges.

  1. are made up so skillfully as to baffle the discrimination of the most experienced judges
  2. are made up so skillfully that to baffle the discrimination of most experienced judges
  3. are made up skillfully so as to baffle the discrimination of the most experienced judges
  4. are made up skillfully such as to baffle the discrimination of the most experienced judges
  5. are made up skillfully so that the discrimination of the most experienced judges is baffled
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.

In oceanography, there must be a balance between explaining the value and workings of marine organisms, revealing the secrets of ocean currents and geophysical fluid dynamics, and to promote respect for the marine world.

  1. between explaining the value and workings of marine organisms, revealing the secrets of ocean currents and geophysical fluid dynamics, and to promote
  2. among explaining the value and workings of marine organisms, revealing the secrets of ocean currents and geophysical fluid dynamics, and promoting
  3. between explaining the value and workings of marine organisms, revealing the secrets of ocean currents and geophysical fluid dynamics, and promoting
  4. among explaining the value and workings of marine organisms, the revelation of the secrets of ocean currents and geophysical fluid dynamics, and to promote
  5. between explaining marine organisms’ value and working, in revealing the secrets of ocean currents and geophysical fluid dynamics, and in promoting
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When life emerged on Earth with a basic cellular structure, it would be adjudged positively primitive by today's standards.

  1. When life emerged on Earth with a basic cellular structure, it would be adjudged positively primitive by today's standards.
  2. When life emerged on Earth with a basic cellular structure, it was adjudged primitive by today's standards.
  3. Life, with basic cellular structure, emerged on Earth, when it would've been adjudged primitive by today's standards.
  4. Life, with a basic cellular structure, as it emerged on Earth, would be adjudged primitive by today's standards.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.

Tax incentive to the salaried class has lead to a boom in the sale of residential apartment complexes; so abundant has capital been for residential real estate that builders regularly scout the country for suitable sites.

  1. so abundant has capital been for residential real estate that
  2. capital has been so abundant for residential real estate, so that
  3. the abundance of capital for residential real estate has been such
  4. such has the abundance of capital been for residential real estate that
  5. therefore, the abundance of capital for residential real estate has meant that
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.

The burgeoning demand for food, shrinking farmlands, and stagnating crop yield has all but ensured that the poor will struggle to put food on the table.

  1. The burgeoning demand for food, shrinking farmlands, and stagnating crop yield has
  2. The burgeoning demand for food, as well as shrinking farmlands and stagnating crop yields have
  3. The burgeoning demand for food, shrinking farmlands, and stagnating crop yield have
  4. The burgeoning demand for food, the shrinking farmlands and the stagnating crop yields, has
  5. The burgeoning demand for food, the shrinking farmlands and the stagnant crop yields, have
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.

Because cows often need to survive on low quality food, they need a way to extract maximum nutrition from the food they eat before being excreted, and therefore, cows have a special stomach called rumen in which food is repeatedly masticated and chewed.

  1. they need a way to extract maximum nutrition from the food they eat before being excreted, and therefore, cows have a special stomach called rumen in which food is repeatedly masticated and chewed
  2. they need a way to extract maximum nutrition from the food they eat before it being excreted, and therefore, cows have a special stomach called rumen in which food is repeatedly masticated and chewed
  3. they need a way to extract maximum nutrition from the food they eat before being excreted, and therefore, cows have a special stomach called rumen by which food is repeatedly masticated after being chewed
  4. they need a way to extract maximum nutrition from the food they have eaten before it is excreted, and therefore, cows have a special stomach called rumen in which food is repeatedly masticated after being chewed
  5. they need a way to extract maximum nutrition from the food they eat before it is excreted, and therefore, cows have a special stomach called rumen in which food is repeatedly masticated after being chewed
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