Writing 1002 Grammar and Editing Practice for Test 2: Revision and editing
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- WORD FORMS: ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
SENTENCES: VERB FORMSThese MULTIPLE CHOICE exercises are from The Little Seagull Handbook’s workbook (Bullock et al., 2017). Select the verb form that belongs in the blank.
2. Once Norah is out of college, she wants ________ to Spain and Portugal.
3. Do you know why Ahmed did not ________ soccer practice yesterday?
4. The coach said that every player who works hard will be ________ at the end of the season.
5. Maria reread all of her letters from Frank, who had ________ to her every week since he had gone to Afghanistan.
6. My nephew ________ about transferring to an engineering firm in Lucerne, Switzerland.
7. The fifth-grade teacher made an announcement to her class: “Once all of you have ________, you may play basketball in the gym for twenty minutes.”
8. I took the dog for a short walk, but it is too hot and humid outside for ________.
9. Because Lou was sick for two weeks, Molly ________ him her notes so he could study for the test.
10. Whom have the sportswriters ________ most recently for the Baseball Hall of Fame?
ANSWERS: 1: B, 2: A, 3:A, 4: A, 5: B, 6: B, 7: A, 8:A, 9: A, 10: B WORD FORMS: ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBSThese MULTIPLE CHOICE exercises are from The Little Seagull Handbook’s workbook (Bullock et al., 2017). In the following sentences, one or both of the underlined, italicized adjectives and adverbs are in the wrong form. Select the answer option that shows the two correct forms; or, if the underlined words are both correct, select No change. 1. Many people who drew well welcomed photography enthusiastically when it became popular in the 1840s.
2. Artists could use photographs as references, eventual limiting the need for live subjects to pose for hours.
3. Artistry crept into photography when nineteenth-century photographers careful manipulated lighting to achieve a particularly effect.
4. Some artists evenly introduced props to suggest their subjects’ inner character.
5. Photography as documentation took another leap forward during the U.S. Civil War, when photographers showed the public how badly life on the front lines was.
6. In the West, photographers took pictures showing that the mountainous landscape looked nearly as good as they had claimed.
7. Toward the end of the 1800s, people began to debate strenuously whether photography should be judged technical or as art in its own right.
8. Some photographers, such as Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), held strong to the belief that photographs should not try to look like paintings, which they certainly were not.
9. Other photographers, such as Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), thought differently; they believed it was fine to create images artificially as some painters did.
10. In the following sentence, one or both of the underlined adjectives and adverbs are in the wrong form. Select the answer option that shows the two correct forms; or, if the underlined words are both correct, select No change. The debate between realist and artist photographers persists to this day.
ANSWERS: 1: C, 2: A, 3: B, 4: B, 5: A, 6: C, 7: A, 8:A, 9: C, 10: B Download 56.71 Kb. Share with your friends:
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