Grammar and Understanding
Professor Jerry Seigel from the University of California, Los Angeles, conducted a study of the sleep times of a broad range of animals and found that they vary widely. Some, like migrating birds, can survive long periods without sleeping at all.
1 - In the text, the underlined words "sleep", "animals" and "widely" function as:
a) Noun-noun-adverb
b) Adjective-noun-adverb
c) Adjective-noun-adjective
d) Noun-noun-adjective
e) Noun-adjective-adverb
2- The pronoun "that" in "It's animals that are needlessly active THAT will not survive" can be replaced by:
a) Whose
b) Which
c) Whom
d) Who
e) Where
3 - Choose the alternative that completes the following sentence: "__ University of California conducted __ research on __ effects of sleeping on __ variety of __ animals."
a) The/ --- /the/a/the
b)The/a/ --- /a/ ---
c) The/a/the/a/the
d)The/a/the/a/ ---
e) The/ --- /the/a/ ---
4- Choose the best question for this sentence: Sleep helps make best use of limited resources.
a) What does help make best use of limited resources?
b) What does sleep help make best use of limited resources?
c) What does helps make best use of limited resources?
d) What helps make best use of limited resources?
e) What help make best use of limited resources?
I would answer, 1b, 2b, 3b, 4a.
Top answer
1b 2b 3e 4d Re: 4 When questioning the subject (and the subject is inanimate), you can usually just substitute "What" at the beginning. The answer will be the same sentence with the answer word in place of "What". (But you may have to change the verb from plural to singular.
- 1b 2b 3e 4d Re: 4 When questioning the subject (and the subject is inanimate), you can usually just substitute "What" at the beginning.
- The answer will be the same sentence with the answer word in place of "What".
- (But you may have to change the verb from plural to singular.
- ) The fast pace of living makes us turn everything into a race.
- What makes us turn everything into a race?
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1b 2b 3e 4d
Re: 4
When questioning the subject (and the subject is inanimate), you can usually just substitute "What" at the beginning. The answer will be the same sentence with the answer word in place of "What". (But you may have to change the verb from plural to singular. See the last example below.)
The fast pace of living makes us turn everythi
0Bruno,
Be careful with hyphens ( - ).
If you put one before a sequence of letters and another after it, the system will interpret it as a strikeout command. strikeout command
Leave spaces so that this doesn't happen.
- strikeout command -
CJ
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