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Identify the intended effect of the following based on its sentence structure/variety:

She was stunned. Her parents had elaborately, and quite silently, organized a party for her and made sure that she remain oblivious to their intentions till the day arrived.

sentences and types writing english

  1. shock

  2. context to a statement

  3. laziness

  4. quick and dynamic

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Correct Option: B

Select the best version of the following to create sentence variation:
(Ensure the meaning of the sentence remains the same)

Its population at the time of its demise was about 2 million.

sentences and types writing english

  1. Its population was, at the time of its demise, about 2 million.

  2. 2 million was its population at the time of its demise.

  3. At the time of its demise, its population was about 2 million.

  4. 2 million, at the time of its demise, was its population.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The correct answer is Option C.
Here, the order of the events are rightly expressed with the use of appropriate prepositions and punctuation. The meaning is also retained in the given sentence.
Options A, B and D are incorrect as the proper sequence of events are not ensured and the meaning of the sentence is also altered in them.

Identify the intended effect of the following based on its sentence structure/variety:
She ran. She didn't know why. But she ran.

sentences and types writing english

  1. Shock

  2. Pause

  3. Action

  4. Reflection

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Correct Option: C

Select the best version of the following to create sentence variation:
(Ensure the meaning of the sentence remains the same)

The boat, sleek and efficient, won the competition.

sentences and types writing english

  1. The boat, which was sleek and efficient, won the competition.

  2. Sleek and efficient, the boat won the competition.

  3. The boat won the competition as it was sleek and efficient.

  4. The boat was not only sleek and efficient but won the competition.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The correct answer is Option B.
Here, 'Sleek and efficient' used in the beginning of the sentence emphasizes the features of the boat that helped it to win the competion and in the remaining sentence the words are placed in the correct order and the verb agrees to the subject appropriately.
Options A, C and D are incorrect as the emphasis is not ensured and the meaning is also not retained in the given options due to inappropriate ordering of events.

Select the option which best changes the following to provide sentence variety:
(Ensure that the meaning of the lines do not change)

Kendra waited for hours patiently for him to return.

sentences and types writing english

  1. Patiently, Kendra waited for hours for him to return.

  2. Kendra patiently waited for hours for him to return.

  3. Kendra waited for hours for him to return patiently.

  4. Kendra waited for hours for him patiently to return.

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Correct Option: A,C

Identify the intended effect of the following based on its sentence structure/variety:

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
(from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness)

sentences and types writing english

  1. Setting a scene

  2. Reflection of thought

  3. Action

  4. Adding context to a statement

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Correct Option: A

Identify the intended effect of the following based on its sentence structure/variety:

She recoiled in her armchair, wrapping the grey, woolen shawl tighter around her, and gazed languidly through the frost-smitten window panes out into a dark, snowy night.

sentences and types writing english

  1. Peacefulness

  2. Action

  3. Speed

  4. Reflection of thoughts

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Correct Option: A

What effect is created by the structure and length of the following sentence:

The proverbial oracles of our parsimonious ancestors have informed us that the fatal waste of fortune is by small expenses, by the profusion of sums too little singly to alarm our caution, and which we never suffer ourselves to consider together.

sentences and types writing english

  1. Time-dragging

  2. Action

  3. Descriptive

  4. Shock

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Correct Option: C

Choose whether the statement is true or false:
One short sentence after another makes your prose sound choppy and childish.

sentences and types writing english

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A

State whether true or false.
The following sentence is an example of an effective short sentence.
"A shot rang out."

sentences and types writing english

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A