Verb Tense & Form
My high school class had fifty people in it, and the small town where I grow up was a very close-knit community.
A. NO CHANGE
B. grew
C. grown
D. growth
B. grew
John held the plate _____. He is a ____ person.
A. careful/carefully
B. careful/careful
C. carefully/carefully
D. carefully/careful
D. carefully/careful
That's John Pugh's specialty: large-scale public art that is available for anyone to see.
A. NO CHANGE
B. large-scale public art.
C. public art for everyone.
D. art that is public and freely available.
B. large-scale public art.
Fill in the correct preposition:
Lindsay will try __ attend Morgan's party.
What is "to"?
Malia felt like she (should of/should have) taken the day off from work.
Which is correct?
What is "should have"?
The painting is immense, the wave looks like it's about to crash, and three children appears to stand directly in its path.
A. NO CHANGE
B. appeared
C. appear
D. was appearing
C. appear
You look ____. Didn't you sleep ____?
A. tired/good
B. tired/well
C. tiredly/good
D. tiredly/well
B. tired/well
I had to learn how to live on my own, with mi familia so many miles away and me all by myself.
A. NO CHANGE
B. and no one with me.
C. not with me any more.
D. DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence with a period.
D. DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence with a period.
Fill in the correct preposition:
I am jealous __ you.
What is "of"?
His (passed/past) accomplishments made him a worthy candidate for a promotion.
Which is correct?
What is "past"?
Many of his pieces, including the cafe scene described above, use the existing architecture. One of his other pieces created the illusion that part of a building's wall has collapsed, revealing an ancient Egyptian store room in the middle of Los Gatos, California.
A. NO CHANGE
B. is creating
C. creates
D. creating
C. creates
I feel (good/well) today.
Which is correct?
The change was short-lived, however, and didn't last for long, perhaps unsurprisingly.
A. NO CHANGE
B. wasn't fated to continue, though, so it
C. predictably enough failed to stick and
D. DELETE the underlined portion
D. DELETE the underlined portion
As evidenced __ the data shown here, we need to cut down on spending next quarter.
What is "by"?
Although they are expensive, name-brand color pencils are used by artists more often (then/than) generic ones.
Which is correct?
What is "than"?
The very first acceptance I received was from this school, located in the middle of a city with millions of inhabitants. My parents were so proud that I get this opportunity to see the word outside of our village.
A. NO CHANGE
B. will get
C. had to get
D. was getting
D. was getting
Which of the following alternatives would NOT be acceptable?
A. excitement nervous
B. nervously excited
C. nervous excitement
D. excitedly nervous
A. excitement nervous
Curly hair became incredibly popular, and the main fashion goal was to make one's hair as curly and as big as possible.
A. NO CHANGE
B. the curlier, the better.
C. it.
D. it didn't seem possible to have hair that was too curly, or too big to be fashionable.
B. the curlier, the better.
The cafe scene includes not only the young woman and also a statue, a framed piece of art, and a small cat, peering around the corner.
A. NO CHANGE
B. nor
C. or
D. but
D. but
Women in science would of often had a difficult time, and Curie was no exception.
A. NO CHANGE
B. might of
C. have
D. has
C. have
When Curie made her discovery, Becquerel had already saw that rays, functioning much like X-rays but produced by uranium salt, existed.
A. NO CHANGE
B. had already seen
C. has already seen
D. has already saw
B. had already seen
Becquerel was performing experimental involving photographic paper, and the discovery of radioactivity was accidental.
A. NO CHANGE
B. an experimental
C. experimentally
D. an experiment
D. an experiment
Curie dedicated the next twelve years to developing a method for isolating that substance, which was not yet but later came to be identified and is now called "radium".
A. NO CHANGE
B. we now know as "radium."
C. scientists and laypeople alike are familiar with today under the name "radium."
D. people in the present day refer to under the name of "radium."
B. we now know as "radium."
Curie eventually enrolled at the University of Paris, where she later became the first female professor.
A. NO CHANGE
B. like
C. when
D. DELETE the underlined portion.
A. NO CHANGE
However, Becquerel didn't identify the underlying scientific principal, namely, that the rays were produced not by a molecular interaction but by the atom itself.
A. NO CHANGE
B. principle
C. principal
D. principle:
D. principle: