Which one is the correct verb form to use in this sentence? My shower _____________a leak Friday night.
Answer(s): D
The action occurred in the past, therefore, sprang would be used because it is the simple past tense of the word spring. You would only use sprung if it was preceded by have, had, or has, as in “I noticed that my shower had sprung a leak.”
What is the correct form of the missing words?The red car in the parking lot belonged to Sarah Jones. James knew that _____________car was new and fast.
Apostrophes show possession and one is needed here to show that the car belongs to Sarah Jones. Different references give various recommendations for doing this with words that end in s. Both of the versions in this answer choice are listed as correct methods by certain grammar authorities.Sarah Jone’s would mean that Sarah Jone owns the car. Adding es to Jones would simply make Jones plural.
Select the option which makes this sentence grammatically correct.The paid vacation benefit is available to _____________employees in the company.
Part- and full-time is the correct answer because with a series of nearly identical compounds, sometimes the final term is delayed until the last instance, allowing the hyphen to act as a kind of place holder.
What is the correct way to write the missing words in this sentence?The children learned that the _____________is sometimes considered a turning point of the war.
Answer(s): A
The Siege of Vicksburg was a battle in the American Civil War and it is considered a proper noun. Proper nouns are people, places, organizations, and sometimes things and they must be capitalized. Prepositions (words like as, at, by, for, in, of, on, per, and to), are not typically capitalized unless they begin a sentence.
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