Select the option which makes this sentence grammatically correct.The paid vacation benefit is available to _____________employees in the company.
Answer(s): D
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.
What is the correct way to write the missing words in this sentence? Cara chose to study Jupiter, Saturn, _____________for her science project.
Answer(s): C
Both “Neptune” and “Sun” are capitalized in this sentence because they are proper nouns. Proper nouns are always capitalized and they include name-specific people, places, organizations, and things.Note: If you were talking about suns, in general, of which there are many in the universe, you would not capitalize the word sun. Example: “Each solar system revolves around a sun.” Then, you would not be talking about any particular sun. But, when you use the article the before sun and it is mentioned along with other celestial bodies, it indicates one particular sun and that is capitalized.
Which transition best completes this sentence correctly?Sarah did not realize until after she arrived in New York that she had left her ball gown at home; _____________, she was fortunate enough to find a shop that rented them by the evening.
However is the correct answer because ‘however’ indicates that the relationship between two independent clauses is one of contrast or opposition. In this example, the first independent clause is a negative one, while the second is the positive that contrasts it.
Which of these sentences contains an active verb tense?
This is the correct answer because active tense is when the subject of the sentence is performing the action. Passive verb tense shows the receiver of the action as the subject and is used in the other three choices. Active and passive verb tense is not dependent on whether the verb is in present or past tense.
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