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Multiple choice softskills communication

What is wrong with this text?

  1. All the names of people and teams should have capital letters.

  2. The team Wigton's name has been spelt different at different occasions.

  3. No mistakes found.

  4. All of the above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is A because proper nouns like names of people and teams must always begin with capital letters. Option B describes a different type of error (spelling inconsistency), option C is incorrect since there are mistakes in the text, and option D is wrong because not all statements above are true.

Multiple choice softskills communication

Can you spot a mistake in the newspaper report below?

  1. No mistakes found.

  2. Last sentence should end as a question.

  3. Passage is incomplete.

  4. The supermarket name is spelled two different ways - Bestco and Bestko.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is D because the supermarket name appears inconsistently spelled as both 'Bestco' and 'Bestko' in the same text. Option A is incorrect since there is a mistake, option B is wrong because the last sentence doesn't require a question mark, and option C is incorrect because the passage appears complete.

Multiple choice softskills communication

"I'm no good at spotting my own mistakes, so what can I do?"

  1. Get a friend to check through your work.

  2. Use a dictionary or handheld spellchecker to check words you're not sure about.

  3. Read your writing out loud to yourself.

  4. Use all of the above methods to check your writing.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is D because effective proofreading requires multiple approaches: peer review (A), using reference tools like dictionaries (B), and reading aloud to catch errors (C). All three methods complement each other and help identify different types of mistakes.

Multiple choice softskills communication

Recipe for Chocolate muffins Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and cocoa powder into a bowl. Mix milk, oil and egg together and add to dry ingredients. Stir well, then spoon mixture into paper cases on a baking tray and bake at Gas Mark 4 for 25 until well risen and firm to the touch. Which word is missing from the last sentence of these instructions?

  1. Cakes

  2. Minutes

  3. Times

  4. Hours
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is B because the sentence 'bake at Gas Mark 4 for 25 until well risen' is missing the time unit. Cooking temperatures require a duration specified with 'minutes' or 'hours' to make sense - '25' alone is incomplete. The phrase should read 'for 25 minutes'.

Multiple choice softskills communication

Opening Times - Ravenhill Sports Centre The new all weather sports centre will open for the first time on Monday 1st July. Opening times will be: Monday-Friday 10am - 6pm Saturdays and Sundays 10 am - 4 pm Bank holidays CLOSED The centre will offer a wide range of both indroor and outdoor sports including bowls badminton golf tennis judo roller skating and squash. What punctuation is missing from the last sentence?

  1. full stop

  2. question mark

  3. commas

  4. speech marks
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because the sentence listing sports activities ('bowls badminton golf tennis judo roller skating and squash') requires commas to separate the items in a list. The list should read 'bowls, badminton, golf, tennis, judo, roller skating, and squash' for clarity and proper punctuation.

Multiple choice softskills communication

Match report - wanderers win the cup in extra time! Last Saturday's thrilling final saw wigton wanderers snatch victory in the dying seconds of the game. Trailing 1 - 0 to rochestor at half-time, they fought back after the break with two goals in the first twenty minutes of the second period, before dave finlay was sent off for bringing down striker ken bates in the penalty area. rovers scored from the spot to bring them level, before wigton scored again in the 90th minute to win the cup. What is wrong with this text?

  1. The game was on Sunday not Saturday.

  2. All the names of people and teams should have capital letters.

  3. The winning team was Wrigton not Wigton

  4. The words 'thrilling' and 'penalty' are spelled wrong.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is B because proper nouns including team names (Wigton Wanderers, Rochester) and person names (Dave Finlay, Ken Bates) must begin with capital letters. The text incorrectly writes them in lowercase ('wigton wanderers', 'rochestor', 'dave finlay', 'ken bates'). Option A is not stated in the text, option C contains a typo, and option D is incorrect.