Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised.A consummate gentleman, Stefan's etiquette and social grace was unmatched.
Answer(s): D
The correct answer is D. Choice A, B, C, and E are all dangling modifiers. A has a verb agreement problem, too.
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised.In countries such as China the government is recognizing the advantages of a capitalist market rather than communism and adjust economic policy accordingly.
The problem with this sentence is in parallel structure. The test is very particular about being consistent about the forms of words used. So specifically, since the sentence refers to a capitalist market, then the sentence must refer to a communist market--not communism, which is an ideology rather than a market system in this context. Only choices B, D and E remain. Choice E commits terrible capitalization (neither "capitalist" nor "communist") mistakes and structure errors (where does the "nor" fit in?! It does not!) Only choice B and choice D remain now, but B mistakenly capitalizes communism and does not change "adjust" to match the parallel verb (i.e. recognizing). Choice D uses the right adjective forms of capitalism and communism, does not make capitalization errors and maintains parallel sentence structure.
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised.Most of my favorite movies contain slapstick humor, however physical comedy is not the only way to make me laugh.
Answer(s): B
The correct answer is B. A is a run-on: "however" is NOT a conjunction. C and D are missing contrast. E is not at all concise.
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised.Learning a new language can be difficult for people after one reaches a certain age; abilities needed to retain and apply new linguistic information deteriorate with time.
The underlined portion of this sentence is wrong because the sentence refers to people in general. Because a plural third person form of a pronoun is needed (because of the reference to "people"), "one" ,"it", and "you" are all inappropriate responses. Choice A, D and E are all incorrect. Choice B is better than choice C because of the implied logic. People can reach a defined age; it is odd to say that multiple people are simultaneously reaching multiple ages what is certain then? It's almost an oxymoron to say certain ages in this context, although it is perfectly fine in other situations (i.e. This board game is only for people of certain ages). Yet the more defining difference is the singular verb form of choice C (i.e. reaches) mistakenly in place of the plural verb form of choice B (i.e. reach). Choice B is the best answer.
Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised.A growing technology trend is to merge multiple devices with complimentary functions such as a phone, music player and the scheduling features of a planner.
Answer(s): E
Choice E is correct. The sentence is incorrect because it does not follow parallelism. A list that begins by naming devices (i.e. phone, music player) must continue and finish in that way. Although it is informative to include the details about a planner's features, it should be accompanied by the features of a phone and a music player if that is the way the sentence is being written. Therefore, choices A, B, C and D are incorrect. Choice B and C even add "and" again making the sentence read "...music player and and..." which is clearly wrong! Be careful; the test wants to catch you off guard. Only choice E is direct and maintains parallelism.
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