Identify the error, if any, in the following sentence. After you have writtenA a definition in your vocabulary notebook, add a fewB ways to use the word orC a sentence to illustrate it’sD meaning. No errorE. Notice that (D) says “it’s,” which is a contraction for “it is.” If you substitute “it is,” the sentence [...]
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The driver needs to ________ his anger before someone becomes a victim of road rage. (a) ameliorate (b) protract (c) embrace (d) venerate (e) escalate Here again we have a sentence completion question that is doing nothing other than testing your vocabulary. We know we’re looking for a word that has something to do with [...]
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Three years ago men made up two out of every three internet users in America. Today the ratio of male to female users is about 1 to 1. In that time the number of American females using the internet has grown by 30,000,000, while the number of males who use the internet has grown by [...]
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The passage deals with the rampant spread of aggressive marketing world over. “What is that women really want?” this universally popular question was asked by Dr Sigmund Freud after almost three decades of clinical psychoanalytic practice and analyzing the ramifications of the female mind. The answer is, as most men 5 would guess, still elusive, [...]
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Two-fifths of the caps in a box are red, one-fourth are blue, and the rest are green. What is the ratio of the green caps to the blue caps? A. 5:8 B. 5:7 C. 7:8 D. 8:7 E. 7:5 We first need to figure out what fraction of the caps are green. If 2/5 [...]
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Which choice best improves the underlined portion of the sentence below? The reason we stopped fishing was because the fish had already stopped biting. A. because the fish had already stopped biting B. because the fish had all ready stopped biting C. that the fish had already stopped biting D. that the fish had all [...]
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Which of the following choices will most improve this sentence? If the sentence is ok, choose (A). To judge the Tidy City contest, we picked an uninterested party. (A.) picked an uninterested party. (B.) picked an interested party! (C.) picked a disinterested party. (D.) are in the process of picking an uninterested party. (E.) picked [...]
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Line l contains the points (3,1) and (4,4). If line m is a different line, parallel to line l in the same coordinate plane, which of the following could be the equation of line m? A. y = 3x – 8 B. y = 1/3x – 3 C. y = -3x – 8 D. y [...]
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While the winemakers were exhausted at the end of their first season, they took — in the fact that the vines would require much less effort in the coming years. (A) solace (B) prerogative (C) vagaries (D) urgency (E) divergence The first part of this sentence could be rewritten to say, “The winemakers were exhausted [...]
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Which choice best improves the underlined part of the sentence below? If the sentence is already correct, choose (A). I was concerned about the test beforehand; but now I am pretty sure that I did well. A. about the test beforehand; but now I am B. about the test beforehand, but now I am [...]
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Identify the error, if any, in the following sentence. It was lucky that (A) the rookie cop was able (B) to disarm (C) the violent suspect gentle (D) and with great patience. No error (E) “Gentle” is modifying “disarm,” which is a verb. Adverbs are used to modify verbs, so it should be “gently.” The answer is (D). source: grammar-guy.com
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If a and b are positive integers, and (ab3/2)2 = 108, what is the value of ab? Remember that we first have to square both variables within the parentheses. That yields a2b3 We are told that a and b are positive integers. So we need to play around a little bit and figure out what number [...]
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He explained that his thoughts were not simply some _____________, but well thought-out and considered. A. caprice B. corrugation C. census D. monotony E. heritage As is almost always the case, if you have a strong vocabulary, this is an easy question. If not, then you’re in trouble and [...]
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