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Test Prep GED Section 2: Language Arts - Writing Exam
Section Two : Language Arts - Writing (Page 8 )

Updated On: 19-Jan-2026
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Sentence After selecting a color, you should measure the room so that you buy the correct amount of paint, and then you are ready to begin.

Which correction should be made to sentence 4?

  1. replace After selecting a color with After the color you have selected
  2. remove the comma after color
  3. replace so that you buy with in buying
  4. replace then you with then, after you have selected the color, measured the room and bought the correct amount of paint, you
  5. no correction is necessary

Answer(s): E



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Sentence 1When the sun goes down, the Grotto Spa came alive.

Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose option A.

  1. down, the Grotto Spa came alive
  2. down, the Grotto Spa had come alive
  3. down the Grotto Spa came alive
  4. down the Grotto Spa, came alive
  5. down, the Grotto Spa comes alive

Answer(s): E



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Sentence 10:If you are having any questions or be needing additional information, please contact me.

The most effective revision of sentence 10 would begin with which group of words?

  1. If you have any questions or need
  2. If you had any questions or need
  3. Needing additional information or if you were having
  4. Please, if questions you have
  5. If you were having any questions or were needing

Answer(s): A



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Sentence His sensitive nature was the genius of his work and is exemplified in the emotional canvases that he have painted.

Which correction should be made to sentence 2?

  1. change was to will be
  2. insert a comma after work
  3. change exemplified to exemplifying
  4. insert a comma after canvases
  5. remove have

Answer(s): E



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The Internet

(A)
(1) We use the Internet or hear about it almost daily. (2) However, there was a time when the Internet was known to just a network of scientists who used it as a means to communicate research information. (3) They lived all over the world, the idea of calling on the phone was a major problem and a major expense. (4) Faxing was a problem also if they wanted to keep their ideas secret. (5) This group of international scientists needed a means to share their information with each other.
(B)
(6) In 1989, computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee created a system that enabled an elite group of scientists to communicate with one another.(7) The original goal of the scientists is to share information that was number- and text-based.(8) This format was an easy procedure for the early computers and computer programs to use.
(C)
(9) Many other people were interested in this"new"exchange of information for a few reasons.(10) It was much cheaper than a long distance phone call or fax, and it provided some privacy.(11) Soon, others were experimenting with this new communication device.(12) Eventually, a group of people at the Massachusetts Institute of technology developed the World Wide Web.
(D)
(13) Changes that are made in computers and the way they communicate with each other provide the opportunity for the Web to evolve.(14) This evolution continue to change the way we all communicatewith each other, too.(15) To do more than just communicate today, the Web is used.(16) Its a valuable marketing and selling tool for businesses.(17) How interesting to think of the many new ways that this technology shaping our future.

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Which correction should be made to sentence 4?

  1. insert a comma after Faxing
  2. change was to were
  3. move also to follow was
  4. insert a comma after also
  5. replace their with they’re

Answer(s): C



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