Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised.Firefighters and police officers risk their lives often by stepping into the way of danger physically; therefore, professionals such as doctors and lawyers have an equally significant impact on individuals' lives medically and legally.
Answer(s): C
The first clause (everything before the semicolon) definitely does not cause what is explained in the second clause (everything after the semicolon), so "therefore" is an inappropriate transition. This sentence is presenting contrasting professions (firefighter/police officer and doctor/lawyer) since two are viewed as blue-collar (working class) and the others are white-collar (professional); therefore, a contrasting conjunction is needed. Choice A ("therefore"), choice D ("as a result") and choice E ("and") do not present contrasting conjunctions. In this sentence "but" is not your best option for a conjunction. A semicolon is used, so the three simple conjunctions (and/but/yet/etc.) are not as appropriate as the complex conjunctions (therefore/however/nevertheless/etc.). If just a comma was used, then "but" would have been appropriate (i.e. "...into the way of danger physically, but professionals such as doctors..."). So now it's down to "nevertheless." Choice C is your best answer.
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised.In many cultures they consider fish eggs a delicacy.
Answer(s): B
The correct answer is B. A is tempting, but the pronoun "they" is vague. E has the same vague pronoun problem. C is just weird all over. D is a fragment.
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised.Sports are a significant part of life for people all across the world, as was demonstrated in 2006 when billions of people came together to be involved with the World Cup either through playing, watching or thru advertising.
Answer(s): D
This sentence tests your knowledge of capitalization and awareness of parallelism. The original sentence is incorrect because choice A destroys the parallelism (i.e. thru advertising instead of simply "advertising") and uses the informal spelling of through (i.e. "thru"). Only choices D and E correct the parallelism error; however, the list should strictly contain gerunds in order to be parallel, so "advertising for it" is not the best choice. By ending with "for it" the author is also implying that one may "play for it" and "watch for it," and although one may play for the World Cup through a grammar stretch, one cannot possibly "watch for it" and do the same thing as one who simply "watches it." Choice D uses the appropriate capitalization (because the World Cup is a major sports event it is a proper noun that must be capitalized) and maintains strict parallelism in the concluding list of ways to be involved.
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised.The argument between Paarin and me about the dent in his car continued until the early morning.
Answer(s): A
The correct answer is A. Choice B, C, and E have pronoun case errors: when the pronoun is the object of a preposition like "between," you need to use the objective case. D is awkward, especially in its misused idiom:"argument on."
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised.During the summer many students go away to summer camps that teach them skills about camaraderie, perseverance and integrity.
Only choice C corrects the redundancy error in this sentence of writing "...summer camps..." after already stating that this event occurs "During the summer..." Choice A, B and D suffer such redundancy. Choice D also breaks the list's parallelism (values such as camaraderie and perseverance that should be followed simply by "integrity"). Choice C and E remain, but choice E makes the same mistake of choice B by capitalizing a season.Although it may look better, seasons are NOT supposed to be capitalized unless they appear in a title or a proper noun.
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