1. Identify the sentence that illustrates correct modifier placement. Answers: • Felicity ordered a croissant and a hot cup of tea. • I wasn't at all hungry, so I only ordered soup and a salad. • Though Tom has lived there for years, he has hardly any friends. • We barely have enough time to finish our shopping.
2. Identify the sentence that illustrates correct modifier placement. Answers: • Left at home alone, the hurricane terrified the young children. • No one is allowed to shoot anything on this property except Mr Lang and his sons. • The speaker with the booming voice was upstaged by a small, meowing kitten. • Charlie and Sarah asked us to go skiing on the phone last night. 3. Read the following passage and identify the type of sentence structure error it contains.
"That moose stood smack-dab in the middle of the road," recounted our neighbour, Griffin, from his hospital bed. "I have only three choices: to hit the brakes and hope for the best, to swerve into the trees and hope for the best, or running him over and hoping for the best. Guess which one I chose?" Answers: • Run-on sentence • Diction • Faulty modifier • Parallelism • Verb tense shift • d and e All of the above
4. Choose the series of verbs that best completes the following passage.
Honestly, I _____________ to tolerate that know-it-all air of yours. ________ me __________ my condolences to your wife, who ________ to listen to your incessant lecturing for many years to come. Answers: • have never been able, Allow, to renew, will have • am never able, Allow, to renew, will have • had never been able, Allowing, has renewed, must • have never been able, Allow, to renew, has
5. Complete the following sentence by choosing the pronouns that agree with the antecedents.
Although both did a good job in ___________ contemporary pieces, the taller dancer showed more flair in __________. Answers: • her, hers • her, theirs • their, hers • his or her, theirs
Top answer
1. Only one answer is 'incorrect' placement, and that one hardly so. 2.
— Mister Micawber
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Only one answer is 'incorrect' placement, and that one hardly so.
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No, you cannot ski on the phone.
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1. Only one answer is 'incorrect' placement, and that one hardly so. 2. No, you cannot ski on the phone. 3. 'All of the above'?? Please point them all out for me! 4. Right, though there are really 2 possible answers. 5. Right.