Your training in writing will have an (effect/affect) on your performance in editing.
What is effect?
100
She is from the (Midwest/midwest).
What is Midwest?
100
Adolescent drinking is sometimes an expression of rebellion.
Subject (singular/plural)
Verb (singular/plural)
What is singular/singular?
100
Sentences fall into four basic patterns (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex).
Rain fell.
What is simple?
100
Everyone should complete (their/his or her) report by Monday.
What is his or her?
200
Your (compliment/complement) encouraged me.
What is compliment?
200
He prefers to eat (Mexican/mexican) food.
What is Mexican?
200
Age limits on drinking encourage clandestine drinking.
subject (singular/plural)
verb (singular/plural)
What is plural/plural?
200
Because the factory violated emission standards, its owners were fined.
(simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)
What is complex?
200
Applicants (who, which, or that) send samples of their writing have the best chance to be called for interviews.
What is who?
300
The satellite is (farther/further) from here than I thought.
What is farther?
300
The (president/President) of the company will return this week.
What is president?
300
There (have been/has been) thefts on this campus.
What is have been?
300
Acid rain fell, and the lake was polluted.
(simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)
What is compound?
300
The computer we purchased last month has increased productivity by 40 percent.
Productivity is the (object/complement).
What is object?
400
(Whose/Who's) house is this?
What is whose?
400
For her courses this semester, Lilly has English, Spanish, and (History/history).
What is history?
400
The data about the media (is/are) convincing.
What is are?
400
The factory that violated emission standards was fined; therefore, the owners authorized changes in procedures and equipment.
(simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)
What is compound-complex?
400
All members are present.
Present acts as the (object/complement).
What is complement?
500
A good manager is (discreet/discrete) in reprimanding an employee.
What is discreet?
500
THIS STYLE IS A (GOOD IDEA/BAD IDEA) IN AN EMAIL BECAUSE IT MAKES YOUR IDEAS (SEEM IMPORTANT/SEEM LIKE SHOUTING).
What is bad idea/shouting?
500
The media (is/are) usually blamed for problems with children even though the evidence is sketchy and minimal.
What is are?
500
Joe catches typos when he proofreads galley proofs, but he is less careful about word division errors.
Without this word _________, the punctuation in the sentence above would change to a (colon/semi-colon).
What is but/semi-colon?
500
The computer that we purchased last month has increased productivity by 40 percent.
"By 40 percent" is a (phrase/clause).