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Grammatical Parallelism in Sentence Correction

Tests ability to identify and correct issues with parallel structure in sentences, including parallel phrases in lists, comparisons, and maintaining consistent grammatical forms across sentence elements.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Tilling means preparation of the soil to plant the seeds and keeping the soil in the best condition to help the crop grow until it is ready for harvesting.

  1. Tilling means preparation of the soil to plant the seeds and keeping the soil in the best condition to help the crop grow until it is ready for harvesting
  2. Tilling means preparing the soil to plant the seeds and keeping the soil in the best condition to help the crop grow until it is ready to harvest
  3. Tilling means preparation of the soil to plant the seeds and keeping the soil in the best condition for helping the crop grow until it is ready for harvesting
  4. Tilling means preparing the soil to plant the seeds and to keep the soil in the best condition to help the crop to grow until it is ready to harvest
  5. Tilling means preparing the soil to plant the seeds and keeping the soil in the best condition to help the crop grow until it is ready to be harvested
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

We believe that the mission of art is a mission of sentiment and love, and that the artist has a larger and more poetic task than suggesting certain prudential and conciliatory measures.

  1. than suggesting certain prudential and conciliatory measures
  2. than that of suggesting certain prudential and conciliatory measures
  3. than of suggesting certain prudential and conciliatory measures
  4. than merely suggesting certain prudential and conciliatory measures
  5. than that to suggest certain prudential and conciliatory measures
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

The infusion made with the soft water will have the strongest taste, although it possesses less color than the infusion made with the hard water.

  1. The infusion made with the soft water will have the strongest taste
  2. The infusion made with the soft water will have by far the strongest taste
  3. The infusion made by the soft water will have the strongest taste
  4. The infusion made by the soft water will have stronger taste
  5. The infusion made with the soft water will have stronger taste
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

While some propose to control high rate of road accident fatalities in India by attempting to educate drivers about safe driving, others by suggesting toughening traffic laws to discourage juvenile drivers, and still others are calling for the imprisonment of drunken drivers.

  1. by suggesting toughening traffic laws to discourage juvenile drivers, and still others by calling for
  2. are suggesting toughening of traffic laws to discourage juvenile drivers, and still other are calling
  3. suggest toughened traffic laws for discouraging juvenile drivers, and still others call
  4. are suggesting toughened traffic laws to discourage juvenile drivers, and still others are calling
  5. suggest toughening of traffic laws to discourage juvenile drivers, and still others call
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

The great conflict generated by the debate in urban middle-class homes over love versus marriages is precisely because ninety percent men forget to buy vegetables, cook dinner on weekends, vet the dog, wrap the presents, and church fare, contrary to the expectations of their wives

  1. ninety percent men forget to buy vegetables, cook dinner on weekends, vet the dog, wrap the presents, and church fare
  2. ninety percent men forget to buy vegetables, cook dinner on weekends, take the dog to the vet, wrap the presents, and fare the church
  3. ninety percent men forget to buy vegetables, to cook dinner on weekends, to take dog to the vet, to wrap the presents, and to go to the church
  4. ninety percent men forget buying vegetables, cooking dinner on weekends, vetting the dog, wrapping the presents, and planning church fare
  5. ninety percent men forget to buy vegetables, cook dinner on weekends, take dog to the vet, wrap presents, and plan church fare
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

With a remaining total area of less than one billion acres and suffering more deforestation every year, the Amazonian Rain forest is in danger of becoming a thing of the past.

  1. of less than one billion acres and suffering more deforestation every year,
  2. lower than one billion acres and more being deforested every year
  3. lesser than one billion acres and suffering more deforestation every year
  4. fewer than one billion acres and suffering more deforestation every year
  5. of lesser than one billion acres and more being deforested every year
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

At the Bull Run, to escape the charging bull, the boys all jumped into a drain and all later emerged all covered in grime.

  1. At the Bull Run, to escape the charging bull, the boys all jumped into a drain and all later emerged all covered in grime.
  2. To escape a charging bull at the Bull Run, a drain was jumped into by all the boys and they emerged later all covered in grime.
  3. To escape the charge of the charging bull at the Bull Run, all the boys jumped into a drain and later emerged covered in all grime.
  4. All the boys jumped into a drain to escape the wrath of a charging bull and all emerged later covered in grime at the Bull Run.
  5. At the Bull Run, all the boys jumped into a drain to escape a charging bull and later emerged all covered in grime.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Inspired by the famous movie, Friday the Thirteenth, film director, Howard R. Cohen presented 'Saturday the fourteenth', a spoof on all the horror movies since Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as a vision of a new genre of films that Cohen wanted to establish.

  1. a spoof on all the horror movies since Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as a vision of a new genre of films
  2. a spoof on all horror movies following Bram Stoker's Dracula and also his envisioning of a new genre of films
  3. a spoof on all horror movies after Bram Stoker's Dracula and his vision of a new film genre
  4. spoofing all horror movies from Bram Stoker's Dracula onwards and also a vision of a new genre of films
  5. spoofing all the horror movies made since Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as his own envisioning of a new film genre
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:" small;=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">Directions:<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa=""> This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

The difficulties of the Moor family represent a unique kind of affliction that should not have been and that have somehow been especially visited upon them, and they are into this mess precisely because, unlike Stacey Price, the oral expression of George Moore is completely dull and woody.

  1. unlike Stacy Price, the oral expression of George Moore
  2. unlike the diction of Stacy Price, the oral expression of George Moore
  3. unalike the diction of Stacey Price, George Moore's oral expression
  4. the oral expression of George Moore that is dissimilar to Stacy Price's
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:" small;=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">Directions:<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa=""> This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

At the beginning of economic growth, there are changes in people's consumption pattern, in the work that they perform and in the manner in which they live.

  1. people's consumption pattern, in the work that they perform and in the manner in which they live
  2. in the pattern of what people consume, in the work that they perform and in the manner in which they live
  3. in what people consume, in the work that they perform and in the manner in which they live
  4. in the consumption pattern of people, in the work that they perform and in the manner in which they live
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

The people she served were affluent, suave and of good culture, mostly women whose dress, manners, and position in the social world were quoted as criterions.

  1. affluent, suave and of good culture, mostly women whose dress, manners, and position in the social world were quoted as criterions.
  2. affluent, suave and cultured, mostly women whose dress, they had good manners, and position in the social world were quoted as criterions.
  3. affluent, suave and cultured, mostly women whose dress, manners, and position in the social world was quoted as criteria.
  4. affluent, suave and cultured, mostly women whose dress, manners, and position in the social world were quoted as criteria.
  5. affluent, suave and of good culture, mostly women whose dress, manners, and position in the social world were quoted as criterion.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Anyway, we took good care with the next lot of measurements, made them more exact; that's why we stayed out there so long.

  1. good care with the next lot of measurements, made them more exact; that's why we stayed out there so long.
  2. good care with the next lot of measurements, making them more exact; that's why stayed out there so long.
  3. great care with the next lot of measurements, making them more exact; that's why we were out there so long.
  4. greater care with the next lot of measurements, made them more exact and that's why we stayed out there so long.
  5. good care with the next lot of measurements, made them more exact; that's why we had to be out there so long.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:" small;=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">Directions:<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa=""> This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

When I interviewed my mathematician friend on his likes and dislikes, he told me that he revels in chocolate, strolling under the moonlight, and songs from the old jazz period.

  1. he revels in chocolate, strolling under the moonlight, and songs from the old jazz period
  2. he loves eating chocolate, taking moonlit strolls and classic jazz singing
  3. he revels in sweet chocolate, long moonlit strolls, and classical jazz music
  4. he loves sweet chocolate, long moonlight strolls, and classical jazz music
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