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Phrases and Clauses

93. What change should be made to the sentence below?

After the movie was over Tara and Brad went to get some coffee at Java City.

add a comma after Tara

add a comma after over

add a comma after Brad

add a comma after coffee

Phrases and Clauses

94. Which of the following adds a subordinate clause to the main clause below?

Rochelle ate dinner.

She was so hungry that Rochelle ate dinner.

She was hungry; Rochelle ate dinner.

She was hungry. Rochelle ate dinner.

When she was hungry, Rochelle ate dinner.

Introducing and Closing Topics

Games such as jump rope and hop scotch develop physical skills in children. Children must have good coordination and timing to be successful at jump roping. Children also have to use balance in order to win at hop scotch. Board games and cards games strengthen memory, concentration, and thinking ability. Old Maid requires children to keep track of the cards that they have requested. Monopoly involves math and strategy. All games are important for teaching social interaction. Children must learn to take turns and to be fair. Cooperation amongst team players is also a social aspect of playing games. Games are valuable to children because they help children develop physically, mentally, and socially.

95. Which of the following sentences is the best topic sentence for the paragraph above?

Word games like Hangman and Scrabble can help children improve their spelling and vocabulary.

Games are important learning forums for children because they help them develop important skills.

Video games can provide some skill development but usually do not help with social interaction.

Some of the best board games for children include Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders.

Introducing and Closing Topics

     (1) Have you ever dreamed of owning a tiger or a monkey? (2) Have you seen pictures of baby animals that made you want to hold and care for them? (3) There are many people who have chosen an exotic pet for reasons like they wanted to have a unique pet to show off to friends, or they thought they could train it to do a lot of amazing tricks. (4) However, wild animals do not make good pets because they need specialized care, they can become dangerous, and they can spread diseases and parasites.
     (5) Caring for wild animals requires expertise. (6) Wild animals have very strict dietary, environmental, and social needs. (7) The owner must know precisely what, when, and how to feed the animal. (8) Snakes, for example, need to be removed from their living quarters and placed in another confined area to feed. (9) The reason for this is so the snake will not associate the owner's hand with its prey. (10) The food demands of a large animal like a tiger would be nearly impossible to supply. (11) Many reptiles need particular temperatures to live; therefore, heat and UV lamps must be maintained for these animals. (12) Besides strenuous nutritional and environmental needs, wild animals have specific social needs that pet owners may have no idea how to meet.
     (13) Baby animals may be easy to contain and control, but they will not stay that way. (14) As the animal grows in size its strength increases too. (15) Young tiger cubs may be similar in size to a domestic house cat, but an adult, male, Bengal tiger can weigh up to 258 pounds. (16) Even a playful pat from an animal that big and strong could seriously injure a human. (17) As a baby, the pet relies on the owner to care for it. (18) When the young animal begins to develop into a mature adult, instinctive behaviors like hunting will replace the young, playful behaviors. (19) Owners typically respond to these changes by locking the animals in cages, sedating them with drugs, or getting rid of the pets.
     (20) One more reason to not keep a wild animal as a pet is that wild animals often carry diseases and/or parasites. (21) Amphibians such as turtles and frogs frequently carry Salmonella, a type of bacteria that is dangerous to humans, especially children. (22) Thousands of people are infected with Salmonella every year. (23) Macque monkeys are known to carry the herpes B virus which can be fatal to humans. (24) Some small mammals (Gambian giant-pouched rats, rope squirrels, and dormice) imported for the pet trade recently infected locally captured prairie dogs with monkeypox. (25) The prairie dogs were sold and infected over a dozen humans with the monkeypox virus. (26) The infected people survived but had to endure fever, body aches, and lesions over two to four weeks. (27) Owning a wild animal as a pet is not worth the risk of catching a harmful disease.
     (28) Wild animals have strict dietary, environmental, and social needs that are unreasonable for an owner to meet. (29) Wild animals have natural instincts that take over as they develop into adults. (30) These instinctive behaviors can be very threatening to people. (31) Also, wild animals are prone to have diseases and parasites that can be transmitted to humans.

96. Which sentence is the topic sentence of paragraph 4?

sentence 23

sentence 25

sentence 27

sentence 20

Adjectives and Adverbs

     (1) "Order up!" called Mae as she slapped a piping hot plate onto the counter of Diamond Lil's Diner. (2) Her best friend Sergei hurried over and handed her another order.
     (3) "Why are Fridays always the busier days of the week?" Sergei complained. (4) "I was hoping to leave early today to study for my math test." (5) Mae sighed and nodded.
     (6) "Busy doesn't begin to describe it," she said. (7) "We've had more than fifty customers in here since we opened. (8) I hope Mr. Onegin hires another cook before I leave for college."
     (9) "Mr. Onegin knows that he will never find anyone to replace you," replied Sergei. (10) "You are the better short order cook in town. (11) The Newport Gazette even wrote a feature article about you called 'Local Chef Mae West Serves Lunch with a Smile!' "
     (12) "The Newport Gazette isn't the impressivest news source," Mae laughed. (13) "When I have my picture in the New York Times, then we can celebrate."
     (14) "I hope you're still planning to help me study this afternoon," Sergei reminded her. (15) "Advanced calculus is more hard than geometry. (16) I'm not sure I was ready for this course."
     (17) "You'll do a great job," Mae assured him. (18) "But if we don't get these orders served quick, then we'll both be unemployed."
     (19) "Good point!" Sergei agreed and rushed away from the counter.

97. How should sentence 3 be revised to correct the grammatical error?

Change busier to busily.

Change busier to more busy.

Change busier to busiest.

Change busier to most busy.

Adjectives and Adverbs

98. What is the correct way to write sentence 12?

"The Newport Gazette isn't the impressiver news source," Mae laughed.

"The Newport Gazette isn't the impressive news source," Mae laughed.

"The Newport Gazette isn't the more impressive news source," Mae laughed.

"The Newport Gazette isn't the most impressive news source," Mae laughed.

Analyzing Documents

At five in the morning someone banging on the door and shouting, her husband, John, leaping out of bed, grabbing his rifle, and Roscoe at the same time roused from the backhouse, his bare feet pounding: Mattie hurriedly pulled on her robe, her mind prepared for the alarm of war, but the heart stricken that it would finally have come, and down the stairs she flew to see through the open door in the lamplight, at the steps of the portico, the two horses, steam rising from their flanks, their heads lifting, their eyes wild, the driver a young darkie with rounded shoulders, showing stolid patience even in this, and the woman standing in her carriage no one but her aunt Letitia Pettibone of McDonough, her elderly face drawn in anguish, her hair a straggled mess, this woman of such fine grooming, this dowager who practically ruled the season in Atlanta standing up in the equipage like some hag of doom, which indeed she would prove to be. The carriage was piled with luggage and tied bundles, and as she stood some silver fell to the ground, knives and forks and a silver candelabra, catching in the clatter the few gleams of light from the torch that Roscoe held. Mattie, still tying her robe, ran down the steps thinking stupidly, as she later reflected, only of the embarrassment to this woman, whom to tell the truth she had respected more than loved, and picking up and pressing back upon her the heavy silver, as if this was not something Roscoe should be doing, nor her husband, John Jameson, neither.
Letitia would not come down from her carriage, there was no time, she said. She was a badly frightened woman with no concern for her horses, as John saw and quickly ordered buckets to be brought around, as the woman cried, Get out, get out, take what you can and leave, and seemed to be roused to anger as they only stood listening, with some of the field hands appearing now around the side of the house with the first light, as if drawn into existence by it.
from The March © 2005 by E.L. Doctorow

99. The city of Atlanta was burned down near the end of the Civil War. For this reason, the character of Letitia is

giving all her silver to her niece.

leaving with what belongings she can.

traveling alone except for her servant.

riding in a horse-drawn carriage.

Analyzing Documents

Objections Answered
by Alice Stone Blackwell
1915

Why Should Women Vote?

The reasons why women should vote are the same as the reasons why men should vote—the same as the reasons for having a republic rather than a monarchy. It is fair and right that the people who must obey the laws should have a voice in choosing the law-makers, and that those who must pay the taxes should have a voice as to the amount of the tax, and the way in which the money shall be spent.

Roughly stated, the fundamental principle of a republic is this: In deciding what is to be done, we take everybody's opinion, and then go according to the wish of the majority. As we cannot suit everybody, we do what will suit the greatest number. That seems to be, on the whole, the fairest way. A vote is simply a written expression of opinion.
In thus taking a vote to get at the wish of the majority, certain classes of persons are passed over, whose opinions for one reason or another are thought not to be worth counting. In most of our states, these classes are children, aliens, idiots, lunatics, criminals and women. There are good and obvious reasons for making all these exceptions but the last. Of course no account ought to be taken of the opinions of children, insane persons, or criminals. Is there any equally good reason why no account should be taken of the opinions of women? Let us consider the reasons commonly given, and see if they are sound.

100. What would be the best way to describe this piece of literature?

historical document

myth

historical fiction

biography

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