1.Having studied small engine repair in night school, fixing the lawn mower was easy.
misplaced modifier
dangling modifier
faulty predication
incomplete comparison
Question 2
When I asked for a submarine, the convenience store clerk said he didn't have kits for making model ships with a confused look.
misplaced modifier
dangling modifier
faulty predication
incomplete comparison
Question 3 I always think linen napkins are nicer.
midplaced modifier
dangling modifierfa
faulty predication
incomplete comparison
Question 4
The reason she is not here is because she is ill.
misplaced modifier
dangling modifier
faulty predication
incomplete comparison
Question 5
The wind was howling and blowing a hundred miles an hour when suddenly there is a big crash, and a tree falls into Rocky's living room. The sentence shifts in
person
tense
discourse
voice and subject
Question 6
The bulldozer clanked into the woods and the ground was disturbed. This sentence shifts in
number
mood
voice and subject
discourse
Question 7
Some used car salesmen twist the truth. Be careful when you talk to them. This sentence shifts in
mood
voice and subject
person
number
Question 8
If one smokes cigarettes, you run the risk of getting lung cancer.
number
mood
tense
person
Question 9
Anyone who rides a bicycle every day will discover that they develop some muscles not developed by jogging. This sentence shifts in
person
number
mood
discourse
Question 10
The person sat down at the counter and asked did we have any scruples. This sentence shifts in
mood
discourse
tense
voice and subject
Question 11
He brought home a new car - large, fire-engine red, fast, and which he could not afford.
unclear pronoun reference
lack of parallelism
mixed metaphor
simile
Question 12
He wrote a hot check. The word hot is used
poorly
clearly
connotatively
denotatively
Question 13
Hot flames poured out of the grill. The word hot is used
poorly
clearly
connotatively
denotatively
Question 14
Have you booted the disk? The word booted is
jargon
sexist language
euphemism
regional
Question 15
When is the blessed event supposed to take place? Blessed event is
jargon
sexist language
euphemism
colloquial
Question 16
The male nurse left the room. Male nurse is
jargon
sexist language
euphemism
colloquial
Question 17 Mortality weighs heavily upon me like an unwilling sleep. Samuel Johnson
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
Question 18
He flunked the chemistry test. Flunked is
jargon
sexist language
euphemism
colloquial
Question 19
But time did beckon to the flowers. Herbert
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
Question 20
Here the once embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world.
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
Question 21
Select the most effective sentence.
Baxter worried about his English exam when he thought about it.
Baxter felt a pang of existential anxiety when he comtemplated his English exam.
When Baxter thought of his English test, he freaked out.
Thinking about the English exam, worry came over Baxter.
Question 22
Identify the type of organization used in the following sentence: I went to the buffet six times, and I still saved room for dessert.
subordination
coordination
religious
secular
Question 23
Identify the type of organization in the following sentence: Since I was hungry again in an hour, I went to Whataburger.
secular
religious
subordination
coordination
Question 24
I am ____ distraught over my horrible love life ____ commiserate with you over yours.
to, too
to, to
too, to
too, too
Question 25
I wonder ____ jacket this is. Does it belong to Jennie, ____ absent today?
whose, whose
who's, who's
who's, whose
whose, who's
can you help me with this
Christopher, put YOUR answer under EACH question. Then we can easily see which are correct and give you suggestions.
1.B
2.B
3.B
4.B
5.D
6.C
7.C
8.C
9.D
10.B
11.C
12.A
13.B
14.A
15.D
16.B
17.A
18.D
19.A
20.A
21.A
22.B
23.C
24.C
25.D
Yes, I can help you with this! Let's go through each question and determine the correct answer.
Question 1: The sentence "Having studied small engine repair in night school, fixing the lawn mower was easy" contains a misplaced modifier. The modifier "Having studied small engine repair in night school" should be placed close to the noun it modifies, which is "I."
Question 2: The sentence "When I asked for a submarine, the convenience store clerk said he didn't have kits for making model ships with a confused look" contains a misplaced modifier. The modifier "with a confused look" should be placed closer to the noun it modifies, which is the convenience store clerk.
Question 3: The sentence "I always think linen napkins are nicer" does not contain any sentence errors. It does not have a misplaced modifier, dangling modifier, faulty predication, or incomplete comparison.
Question 4: The sentence "The reason she is not here is because she is ill" contains a faulty predication. The phrase "the reason" and "because" are redundant and can be simplified to "She is not here because she is ill."
Question 5: The sentence "The wind was howling and blowing a hundred miles an hour when suddenly there is a big crash, and a tree falls into Rocky's living room" shifts in tense. The verb "is" should be changed to "was" to maintain past tense consistency.
Question 6: The sentence "The bulldozer clanked into the woods and the ground was disturbed" does not contain any sentence errors. It does not shift in number, mood, voice, or subject.
Question 7: The sentences "Some used car salesmen twist the truth. Be careful when you talk to them" do not contain any sentence errors. They do not shift in mood, voice, subject, person, or number.
Question 8: The sentence "If one smokes cigarettes, you run the risk of getting lung cancer" contains a shift in person. The sentence starts with the impersonal pronoun "one" but then switches to the second-person pronoun "you."
Question 9: The sentence "Anyone who rides a bicycle every day will discover that they develop some muscles not developed by jogging" contains a shift in number. The pronoun "they" is plural, while the singular pronoun "anyone" is used earlier in the sentence.
Question 10: The sentence "The person sat down at the counter and asked did we have any scruples" contains a shift in mood. The sentence starts in the indicative mood ("sat down and asked") and then switches to the interrogative mood ("did we have"). It would be more consistent to rephrase it as "The person sat down at the counter and asked if we had any scruples."
Question 11: The sentence "He brought home a new car - large, fire-engine red, fast, and which he could not afford" contains a lack of parallelism. The adjectives describing the car ("large," "fire-engine red," and "fast") should be consistent in structure.
Question 12: The sentence "He wrote a hot check" uses the word "hot" clearly and denotatively. It does not rely on figurative or connotative meaning.
Question 13: The sentence "Hot flames poured out of the grill" uses the word "hot" clearly and denotatively. It does not rely on figurative or connotative meaning.
Question 14: The sentence "Have you booted the disk" uses the word "booted" as jargon, which refers to starting a computer or operating system.
Question 15: The phrase "blessed event" in the sentence "When is the blessed event supposed to take place" is used as a euphemism. It refers to a pregnancy or childbirth.
Question 16: The phrase "male nurse" in the sentence "The male nurse left the room" is an example of jargon, which refers to a male nurse.
Question 17: The sentence "Mortality weighs heavily upon me like an unwilling sleep" contains a simile. It compares mortality to an unwilling sleep using the word "like".
Question 18: The sentence "He flunked the chemistry test" uses the word "flunked" clearly and denotatively. It does not rely on figurative or connotative meaning.
Question 19: The sentence "But time did beckon to the flowers" contains personification. It attributes human-like behavior (beckoning) to time.
Question 20: The sentence "Here the once embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world" contains a metaphor. It refers to the shot being heard worldwide, emphasizing its significance.
Question 21: The most effective sentence among the options provided is subjective and depends on the context and intended tone. Each sentence conveys a different style and emotion.
Question 22: The type of organization used in the sentence "I went to the buffet six times, and I still saved room for dessert" is coordination. The conjunction "and" is used to join independent clauses.
Question 23: The type of organization used in the sentence "Since I was hungry again in an hour, I went to Whataburger" is subordination. The clause "Since I was hungry again in an hour" is dependent on the main clause "I went to Whataburger."
Question 24: The correct answer is "too, too." The first blank requires the adverb "too" to indicate excessiveness, and the second blank also requires the adverb "too" to maintain parallelism.
Question 25: The correct answer is "whose, who's." The first blank requires the possessive pronoun "whose" to indicate ownership, and the second blank requires the contraction "who's" to mean "who is."