Writing 1002 Grammar and Editing Practice for Test 2: Revision and editing
SENTENCES: SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
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SENTENCES: SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENTThese MULTIPLE CHOICE exercises are from The Little Seagull Handbook’s workbook (Bullock et al., 2017). Select the verb that belongs in the blank.
2. Professor Stephen Greenblatt’s writing ________ with Shakespeare.
3. One contemporary novel that ________ affected me is Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.
4. Stephen Greenblatt’s speculation about the playwright’s life _________ from a close reading of Shakespeare’s plays.
5. Each of the candidates ________ claiming victory after the early primaries.
6. Neither my mother nor my older brothers ________ spicy food.
7. The committee members ________ arguing for months about location, food, and décor.
8. The only one of the dresses that ________ good on me is the beautiful lavender one.
9. The last time I checked, there ________ only a few pieces of pizza left.
10. The assignments from Professor Han don’t ________ that difficult.
ANSWERS: 1: A, 2: A, 3:A, 4: A, 5: A, 6: B, 7: B, 8:A, 9:B, 10: B SENTENCES: VERB TENSEThese MULTIPLE CHOICE exercises are from The Little Seagull Handbook’s workbook (Bullock et al., 2017). Each of the following passages may contain problems with verb tense. Select the answer that uses verb tenses correctly. If the original passage is correct, select No change. 1. Samantha phoned her brother. She explains that she needs to postpone her trip to visit him, and she asks if she can arrive later in the month.
2. In the first chapter of the novel Forgetfulness by Ward Just, a Frenchwoman takes a walk in the mountains outside a French village. After she tripped and hurt her foot, she implored four foreigners who crossed her path to carry her home. They complied for a while, but then they murdered her.
3. By the end of yesterday’s race, Annie had run more than forty miles.
4. Our friends called us to announce their engagement and to say they will pick May 19 as their wedding date.
5. The story “Araby” by James Joyce has made use of religious symbolism.
6. Derek was thinking about whether he will go to graduate school next year or whether he is getting a job.
7. Before the civil rights movement of the 1960s ended, Martin Luther King Jr. and John and Robert Kennedy are murdered.
8. In James Joyce’s “Araby,” the narrator promises to buy a gift at the fair for Mangan’s sister, but he arrived at the fair too late.
9. Donna told her teenaged son, “From now until the end of the school year, there were consequences for your disrespectful behavior.”
ANSWERS: 1: A, 2: B, 3:C, 4: A, 5: A, 6: B, 7: A, 8:B, 9:A Download 56.71 Kb. Share with your friends:
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