Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.A shockingly indelible moment, I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I found out that Kurt Cobain had died.
Answer(s): C
“A shockingly indelible moment,”, “A shocking, indelible moment,”, “Shocked and indelible,”, and “Shocking and I will never forget it,” all have dangling modifier errors, because they aren’t describing what comes after the comma. Indelible means not able to be erased; you wouldn’t say that about a person in this context.
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.Since the work force is becoming increasingly competitive in light of technological advances and outsourcing, therefore, it is even more basic for students to complete high school and attain at least a bachelor’s degree.
Answer(s): E
This sentence is a run-on sentence and can be fixed with the deletion of one word: “therefore.” By beginning with a conjunction such as “Since” the sentence already has a descriptive clause in motion and just needs to be followed by a succinct (brief) statement of what the background of the first clause was describing. All of the choices except choice “it is even more basic for students to complete high school and attain at least a bachelor’s degree.” use this erroneous second conjunction (i.e. therefore, moreover, but, so), so they must be eliminated. Choice “it is even more basic for students to complete high school and attain at least a bachelor’s degree” is grammatically sound.
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.Study the ancient fighting art of Hapkido and you will learn to avoid directly matching your strength against your opponents.
Answer(s): A
“yours against your opponent” doesn’t say what’s being matched with what. “your strength against your opponent”, “your strength with your opponent”, and “your opponent's strength against one's own” all have some sort of parallelism error.
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.Plenty of high school students spend their time involved in the community by working with peers, young children and also helping senior citizens.
Answer(s): D
By breaking the parallelism (continuity of a pattern, in this case), the underlined portion of this sentence must be changed. By simply changing “also helping senior citizens” to “senior citizens” the list is clearly discussing people in the community from various age groups. Each other choice besides “spend their time involved in the community by working with peers, young children and senior citizens” uses incorrect pronouns (i.e. his) and/or parallel structure (i.e. also helping senior citizens).
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.McCarthyism was an ideology and an applied pursuit that arose in the middle of the twentieth century and targeted communists in the United States state department.
The original choice is wrong strictly for the lack of capitalization of “State Department.” Choice “McCarthyism was an ideology, an applied pursuit that arose in the middle of the twentieth century, targeted communists in the United States state department” complicates problems more than “McCarthyism was an ideology and an applied pursuit that arose in the middle of the twentieth century and targeted communists in the United States state department” by deleting certain words that turn the sentence into a run-on sentence. Choice “McCarthyism was an ideology and an applied pursuit that arose in the middle of the twentieth century and targeted Communists in the United States state department” fails to capitalize “State Department” (it needs to be capitalized because it is a proper noun — the United States State Department, not just “a state department”). Although choice “McCarthyism will be an ideology and an applied pursuit that arose in the middle of the twentieth century and targeted communists in the United States” corrects the capitalization error, it changes “was” to “will be,” which is an illogical verb tense (i.e. future) because later in the sentence it is stated that the ideology arose “in the middle of the twentieth century,” which has already passed. Choice “McCarthyism was an ideology and an applied pursuit that arose in the middle of the twentieth century and targeted communists in the United States State department” corrects the capitalization error and leaves the sentence as it is. Sometimes just minor changes are needed.
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