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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.
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