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1. Choose the best option to complete the following sentence: "__ conjunctions allow us to connect independent 
clauses of the same level of importance in a single sentence and avoid paragraphs composed of many short, 
repetitive simple sentences": Coordinating 
2. Choose the best option to complete the following sentence: "__ the rain, he went to beach": Despite 
3. What type of sentence is composed of INDEPENDENT CLAUSES only? Compound 
4. What type of sentence contains ONLY ONE CLAUSE? Simple 
5. Choose the best alternative to complete the following sentence: "A __ Conjunction comes at the beginning of 
a Dependent Clause and establishes the relationship between the dependent clause and the rest of the 
sentence": Subordinating 
6. Which of the following conjunctions is used to join clauses in a cause and effect relationship, and is similar in 
meaning to the subordinating conjunction "hence"? SO 
7. What is the function of the NOUN CLAUSE in the following sentence? "We are all afraid that the final exam 
will be difficult": Adjective Complement 
8. CLassify the function of the NOUN CLAUSE in the following sentence: "Mary is not responsible for what Billy 
did": Object of a Preposition 
9. SUBORDINATE CLAUSES can be classified under the following heading, EXCEPT: Pronominal Clauses 
10. Identify the function of the NOUN CLAUSE in the following sentence: "Billy¿s mistake was that he refused to 
take lessons": Subject Complement 
11. In which alternative the noun clause is an object of a preposition? Mary is not responsible for what Billy did. 
12. In which alternative the clause is incorrectly analyzed? We don’t know WHAT SONGS SHE OFTEN SINGS. 
(Indirect object) 
13. In which alternative the sentences are not correctly joined? You are the expert. We want your advice. - You 
are the expert which advice we want. 
14. In which alternative the omission of THAT is NOT correct? Billy jumped off the pier surprised everyone. 
15. In which clause the relative pronoun is NOT analyzed correctly? She introduced me to her husband, WHO(M) 
I hadn¿t met before (subject) 
16. Read the text below. Put in the right relative pronouns ONLY where necessary. Then choose the the correct 
option below. A CHANCE IN A MILLION: "Cissie, the woman (1)...... works in our office, wanted to phone Mr. 
Robinson, but she dialed the wrong number. The number (2)...... she dialed turned out to be the number of a 
public call box in the street. A man,(3)..... was passing at the time, heard the phone ringing and answered it. 
'Is that Mr. Robinson?' Cissie asked. 'Speaking,' the man answered. It turned out that the man (4)..... she was 
speaking to was actually called Robinson and had just happened to be passing the call box when she rang: who 
- Ø - who - Ø 
17. What would NOT be the right way to join these sentences: (1) She's the nurse. (2) I gave the flowers to her: 
She is the nurse whose flowers I gave to her. 
18. Decide which semantic type it is, from the choices given: ''I think London is less crowded [than it used to be]": 
Comparative 
19. Decide which semantic type it is, from the choices given: "[Provided he works hard], he'll do very well at 
school": Conditional 
20. Decide which semantic type it is, from the choices given: ''[As I don't know the way], I'll take a taxi.": Reason 
21. Decide which semantic type it is, from the choices given: "We had no electricity during the storm, [so we had 
to use candles]": Result 
22. Decide which semantic type it is, from the choices given: "[Even though he worked hard], he failed the final 
exam": Concessive 
23. In which alternative the intercalated clause is correctly analyzed? We ate, THAT IS TRUE, but it was a 
parsimonious eating. (opinion) 
24. In which alternative there is NOT an elliptical clause? Though [they were] sometimes nervous on the court, 
her recruits proved to be hard workers. 
25. In which alternative the correlative conjunction is NOT PARALLEL? I wondered WHETHER to make the 
telephone call NOR to see her in person. 
26. In which alternative there is an example of additive correlative clause? She wanted neither cake nor ice cream. 
27. All alternatives below have an example of an ELLIPTICAL CLAUSE, EXCEPT: Though they were sometimes 
nervous on the court, her recruits proved to be hard workers. 
28. The following are classifications of INFINITIVE CLAUSES, EXCEPT: Dangling Modifier 
29. In which alternative the sentence is NOT correctly punctuated? Janice and her friends went to the mall, to flirt 
with the cute guys who congregate at the food court. 
30. In which alternative the sentence IS NOT correctly analyzed? He opened the box to reveal a huge bullfrog 
(direct object) 
31. In which alternative the sentence IS NOT correctly analyzed? His ambition is TO FLY (object of preposition) 
32. In the sentence "John likes [studying] at the library,'' the word in brackets is correctly classified as which of the 
following? Gerund 
33. In the sentence "[Waiting] for the late bus, I decided finally to learn how to drive," the word in brackets is 
correctly classified as which of the following? Participle 
34. The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to SINGING and to LAUGHING gently 
and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. (Homer). The verbs 
highlighted are, respectively: Gerund and gerund 
35. In which alternative the clause in brackets is a GERUND? [Jamming too much clothing into a washing machine] 
will result in disaster. 
36. In which alternative the verb in brackets is CORRECTLY APPLIED? I adore [cooking]. 
37. In the sentence "I hope to vacation in Canada next year", which of the following is true? You're right! Go on 
to the next question 
38. In the sentence "John likes exercising at the YMCA," the underlined word is correctly classified as which of the 
following? Gerund 
39. In the sentence "He was eager to leave for vacation," which of the following is true? An infinitive serves as an 
adverb. 
40. What is true of the following example? "She reads the journals to watch professional trends.": It contains an 
infinitive phrase functioning as an adverb. 
41. Which of the following sentences is prescriptively correct? I appreciate your taking the time to talk with me. 
42. In the sentence "John, who was hired to deal with such problems, was intending to work on the project today," 
the underlined element is correctly classified as which of the following? A clause 
43. In the sentence "Mary, the latest person to be hired, will probably be the first person to be fired," the 
underlined element is correctly classified as which of the following? An appositive phrase 
44. In the sentence "My father, refusing to believe that someone had stolen his truck from our driveway, rushed 
out the front door to check for himself," the underlined element is correctly classified as which of the 
following? A participial phase 
45. In the sentence "The boy on the bicycle rode through my wife's perennial garden," which of the following is 
true? Both of the above 
46. Which sentence presents a gerund? There are not many ways of mending somebody´s heart. 
47. In this sentence, the participial clause is ambiguous. "Delores noticed her cousin walking along the shoreline''. 
(Who was walking along the shoreline, Delores, her cousin or both?) Rewriting the sentence, which of the 
following options implies that IT WAS THE COUSING WHO WAS WALKING ALONG THE SHORELINE (attention 
to the punctuation)? Delores noticed her cousin, who was walking along the shoreline. 
48. Which sentence is the correct one? My dad, coughing all night long, was up three times to take cough syrup. 
49. Which of the following punctuation marks is used BEFORE THE CONJUNCTION IN A COMPOUND SENTENCE? 
A comma 
50. Which of the following punctuation marks is usedTO JOIN WORDS OR DIVIDE WORDS INTO SYLLABLES? A 
hyphen 
51. Pick out the one sentence that is correctly punctuated: b) Harbor Springs is now a summer resort for the 
affluent, but a century ago it was the Indian village of my Ottawa ancestors. 
52. In which alternative the meaning of the sentence is: "Laura' new car shone in the sunlight and it is outside.": 
Outside, Laura's new car shone in the sunlight. 
53. Which of the following punctuation marks is used TO INTRODUCE A LIST AND BEFORE A FINAL CLAUSE THAT 
EXPLAINS SOMETHING IN THE SENTENCE? A colon 
54. In which alternative the sentence is correctly punctuated? c) Picture this: a Neanderthal man deep in the forest 
gorges on the yummies of his time--fruits, berries, anything sweet and pluckable. 
55. A dangling modifier is a word or clause that modifies a word not clearly stated in the sentence. A modifier 
describes, clarifies, or gives more detail about a concept. In which alternative there is a correct sentence? 
After reading the original study, I find the article unconvincing. 
56. In which alternative there is a NOUN CLAUSE? He told me that the match had been cancelled. 
57. In which alternative the verb is correctly applied? They delayed leaving. 
58. In which alternative the relative pronoun is A SUBJECT? The department has experienced problems which have 
delayed production. 
59. Which of the following conjunctions is similar to "but," in that it is used to join two contrasting ideas 
and really emphasizes a contrast? Yet 
60. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." The Joshua Tree, 1987) In the above text, what is the 
DIRECT OBJECT CLAUSE? What I'm looking for 
61. What would NOT be the right way to join these sentences: "He is the man. I sent the money to him.": 
e) He is the man whose I sent the money to 
62. What are INTERCALATED CLAUSES? They are clauses which are separated from the rest of the 
sentence by a pause. In written, they are signaled by a comma, dash or parentheses. 
63. Which of the following is NOT a Coordinating Conjunction? Whereas 
64. In which alternative the clause is incorrectly analyzed? The truth is THAT BILLY WAS NOT VERY SMART. 
(object complement) 
65. What would NOT be the right way to join these sentences: "She's the nurse. I gave the flowers to her." She's 
the nurse whose flowers I gave to her 
66. Which of the following sentences has an example of an ADVERBIAL CLAUSE? If Anna gets some extra money, 
she will study Brazilian Portuguese 
67. In which alternative the sentences are NOT correctly joined? You are the expert. (2) We want your advice. --} 
You are the expert which advice we want. 
68. The following classifications can be applied to ADVERBIAL CLAUSES, EXCEPT: Object of a Preposition 
69. Choose the CORRECT correlative conjunction for the following sentence: ''When they found the man who had 
been lost for four days, he was ___tired __hungry": not only ..... but also 
70. Decide which semantic type it is, from the choices given: ''[Although he worked hard], he failed the final exam": 
Concessive 
71. In which alternative there is an example of an ADDITIVE CORRELATIVE CLAUSE? She wanted neither a cupcake 
nor a pie 
72. The following quote from Albert Einstein examplifies the use of a specific type of conjunction. Which one? 
''The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know": Correlative 
73. Choose the best alternative: “___ I don't approve of what you did, I'm not going to punish you for it.”: While 
74. Choose the best alternative: “I'm learning English ___ I can get a better job”: so that 
Choose the best alternative: “She stole the money ___ her brother needs to pay his school fees.”: because 
75. Combine the sentences. Do not change the order of the sentences. What is the right answer? Pay attention to 
the punctuation. “They got married. They had to learn to manage their own home. ”: After they got married, 
they had to lean to manage their own home. 
76. The word "although" can be used to join a dependent clause to ____: a main clause 
77. “The thought of stars contributed to the power of his feeling. What moved him was a sense of those worlds 
around us, our knowledge however imperfect of their nature, our sense of their possessing some grain of our 
past and of our lives to come." (John Cheever, Oh What a Paradise It Seems. Random House, 1982). In the 
above text, what is the SUBJECT CLAUSE? What moved him 
In which clause the relative pronoun is NOT analyzed correctly? She introduced me to her husband, who(m) I 
hadn’t met before. (subject) 
What would NOT be the right way to join these sentences: “She´s the nurse. I gave the flowers to her.”: She is 
the nurse whose flowers I gave to her. 
78. In which alternative the infinitive clause is an adverb? Kelvin, an aspiring comic book artist, is taking Anatomy 
and Physiology this semester to understand the interplay of muscle and bone in the human body. 
79. In which alternative the sentence IS NOT correctly analyzed? My favorite sport, to run three miles, takes a 
great deal of effort. (appositive) 
80. Choose the option that correctly analyze the gerund clauses in bold: “Acting is merely the art of keeping a 
large group of people from coughing.” (Sir Ralph Richardson, 1902-1983): subject – object of preposition – 
object of preposition 
81. In which alternative the clause is a gerund? Jamming too much clothing into a washing machine will result in 
disaster. 
In the sentence "I hope to vacation in Canada next year", which of the following is true? An infinitive serves as 
a direct object 
82. Pick out the one sentence that is correctly punctuated: Harbor Springs is now a summer resort for the affluent, 
but a century ago it was the Indian village of my Ottawa ancestors 
83. In which alternative the sentence is correctly punctuated? When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate.