Questions
As per the latest Income Tax directive, if you fail to declare non-taxable income in the income tax return, it violates the Income Tax laws.
- if you fail to declare non-taxable income in the income tax return, it
- if one fails to declare non-taxable income in one's income tax return, it
- failure to declare non-taxable income in an income tax return
- if the income tax return fails to declare non-taxable income, it
- failing in declaring non-taxable income in the income tax return
Directions: The following sentence tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined part. 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.
Recent psychological studies indicate that if humans share life’s traumatic experiences with and discuss problems with friends and family, they will experience lesser emotional trauma and regain composure quicker than adults that keep to themselves.
- discuss problems with friends and family, they will experience lesser emotional trauma and regain composure quicker than
- discuss problems with friends and family, they experience lesser emotional trauma and regain composure quicker than
- discussed problems with friends and family, they experienced lesser emotional trauma and regain composure quicker than will
- discuss problems with friends and family, they will experience lesser emotional trauma and regain composure more quickly than
- discussed problems with friends and family, they have experienced lesser emotional trauma and have regained composure more quickly than
The first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan B. Forrest believed that Blacks should return to slavery, the state that, to him, symbolized the relationship between Whites and Blacks.
- that Blacks should return to slavery, the state that, to him, symbolized the relationship between Whites and Blacks
- that Blacks should return to the state of slavery symbolizing the relationship that exists between Whites and Blacks to him
- that Blacks return to slavery which was the state which symbolized the relationship between Whites and Blacks to him
- that Blacks return to slavery which was the state that to him symbolized the relationship between Whites and Blacks
- Blacks' return to slavery symbolized the relationship between Blacks and Whites to him
Directions: The following sentence tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined part. 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.
Child behaviorists contend that the behavior of children can usually be modified to make them calmer and friendlier.
- Child behaviorists contend that the behavior of children can usually be modified to make them calmer and friendlier.
- That the behavior of children can usually be modified to make the children calmer and friendlier is the contention of child behaviorists.
- Child behaviorists contend that modifying their behavior can make children calmer and friendlier.
- Child behaviorists contend that the behavior of children can be made calmer and friendlier by modifying the children.
- Child behaviorists contend that the behavior of children can usually be modified to make the children calmer and friendlier.
Directions: The following sentence tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined part. 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 President announced that the unemployment rate increased much less in the third quarter of the year than had been feared and that the nation’s economy will recover in the last quarter of the year.
- had been feared and that the nation’s economy will recover in
- had been expected and that the nation’s economy will recover
- was feared and that the nation’s economy would recover
- it had been feared and that the nation’s economy will recover
- was expected and that the nation’s economy will recover
Less than 55 years after a census put the number of elephants in Virunga National Park, Congo at 3000, less than 300 remained in 2006.
- Less than 55 years after a census put the number of elephants in
- In less than 55 years since a census put the number of elephants in
- In less than the 55 years since a census had put the number of elephants in
- Less than 55 years later a census put the number of elephants in
- It took less than 55 years from a census that put the number of elephants in
Directions: The following sentence tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined part. 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 United States and Mexican Boundary Survey (1848-1855) set the boundary between the United States and Mexico according to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to end the latent hostility that had been simmering on the border.
- to end the latent hostility that had been simmering on
- and ended the latent hostility that had been simmering on
- that ended the latent hostility simmering on
- which ended the latent hostility that had been simmering at
- to end the latent hostility that was simmering at
Directions: The following sentence tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined part. 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.
Networking sites have allowed people from all over the world to connect with each other, but they have also been responsible for causing alienation, reduced in-person interaction, and virtual life addiction.
- with each other, but they have also been responsible for causing alienation, reduced in-person interaction, and virtual life addiction
- with each other, but they have also been responsible for causing alienation, reducing in-person interaction, and addiction to virtual life
- with one another, and they have also been responsible for causing alienation, reduced in-person interaction, and addiction to virtual life
- with one another, but they have also been responsible for causing alienation and virtual life addiction, and reducing in-person interaction
- among themselves, but they have also been responsible for causing alienation and virtual life addiction, and lessening in-person interaction
During July 2010, Australian State of Victoria was hit by a massive locust swarm, destroying thousands of acres of crop in the State.
- was hit by a massive locust swarm, destroying
- was hit by a massive locust swarm that destroyed
- was hit by a massive swarm of locusts and destroyed
- was hit by a massive swarm of locusts, which destroyed
- was hit by a massive swarm of locusts, that destroyed
Directions: The following sentence tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined part. 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.
Many psychologists opine that people, when recalling a traumatic experience, often experience distress that is similar to the anguish that they experienced when the actual trauma causing event was taking place.
- that is similar to the anguish that they experienced when the actual trauma causing event was taking place
- that was similar to the anguish that they had experienced when the actual trauma causing event was taking place
- that has been similar to the anguish that they experienced when the actual trauma causing event had been taking place
- similar to the anguish that they experienced when the actual trauma causing event had been taking place
- similar to the anguish that they had been experiencing when the actual trauma causing event had been taking place
A slave's personal life's account formed the basis for the novel, River God, which is about the life that he had lived.
- personal life's account formed the basis for the novel, River God, which is about the life that he had lived
- account of his own personal life formed the basis for the novel, River God, which is about the life that he had lived
- account of his life formed the basis for the novel, River God, which is about the life that the slave had lived
- account of his personal life formed the basis for the novel, River God, which is about the life that the slave lived
- account of his personal life formed the basis for the novel, River God, which is about the life that the slave had lived
Some species of antelope which were saved and brought back from the verge of extinction by the efforts of WWF were endangered due to indiscriminate hunting during the last century.
- Some species of antelope which were saved and brought back from the verge of extinction by the efforts of WWF were endangered due to
- Some of the species of antelope which were saved and brought back from the verge of extinction by the efforts of WWF were endangered due to
- Some species of antelope that were saved and brought back from the verge of extinction by the efforts of WWF had been endangered due to
- Some species of antelope that had been saved and had been brought back from the verge of extinction by the efforts of WWF had been endangered due to
- Some species of antelope that were saved and were brought back from the verge of extinction by the efforts of WWF had been endangered due to