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Exam: 250396RR - Revising and Editing
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Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page
break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer.
1. Which of the following sentences contains one or more strong, active verbs?
A. Having been away in London for two years, Conrad was happy to see Denise.
B. The phone directory was hastily searched by Conrad.
C. It was believed by some that Conrad's father had been a war hero.
D. Conrad trembled with anxiety and anticipation as he pressed Denise's doorbell.
2. The following is an example of what kind of sentence?
Because it had rained earlier in the week, the game was cancelled.
A. Simple
B. Compound-complex
C. Compound
D. Complex
3. In which of the following sentences does the use of prepositional phrases make it harder for readers to
find the main point of the sentence?
A. Under the circumstances in which the staff found themselves, they decided, in anticipation of layoffs, to go on strike.
B. The committee voted on several of the issues under consideration.
C. The senator chose to run on a platform that cut taxes for the wealthy.
D. In what way is a political group considered "grassroots" when it's overseen by a pair of wealthy businessmen?
4. A common error in academic writing is the tendency to
A. incorporate regional or ethnic dialects for the sake of authenticity.
B. rely too heavily on second-person pronouns.
C. write overly formal sentences that use big words for the sake of sounding "academic."
D. rely too heavily on first-person pronouns.
5. Paragraphs that use _______ diction tend to use first and second person pronouns and shorter, less
varied sentences.
A. colloquial
B. informal
C. popular
D. compound