Punctuation
What punctuation joins together 2 complete sentences? (name all)
A) semicolon (;)
B) ,FANBOYS
C) comma (,)
D) period (.)
A, B, and D
Writing __________ invented in Sumer around 3200 BCE, marking the beginning of recorded history.
a) have been
B) was
C) were being
D) are
B) Was
The storm caused widespread damage to the town. ____, the community rallied together to rebuild and support each other.
A) Additionally
B) Moreover
C) Instead
D) Furthermore
D) Furthermore
British scientists James Watson and Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in part for their 1953 paper announcing the double helix structure of DNA, but it is misleading to say that Watson and Crick discovered the double helix. _______ findings were based on a famous X-ray image of DNA fibers, “Photo 51,” developed by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and her graduate student Raymond Gosling.
A) They’re
B) It’s
C) Their
D) Its
C) Their
The puppy left a mess in the kitchen playing with ______ toys and bones; it also go into the garbage.
A) it's
B) one's
C) its'
D) its
D) its
Despite of all the obstacles she ___________ was determined to achieve her goals.
A) faced Maria
B) faced; Maria
C) faced: Maria
D) faced, Maria
D) faced, Maria
The warrior hoisted his ruby-hilted sword, ________ it in the air, and slew the ugly dragon.
A) will twirl
B) twirl
C) twirled
D) to twirl
C) Twirled
The team had trained hard for the championship match. ____, they were defeated by their underdog opponents.
A) Additionally
B) However
C) Consequently
D) Therefore
B) However
Public-awareness campaigns about the need to reduce single-use plastics can be successful, says researcher Kim Borg of Monash University in Australia, when these campaigns give consumers a choice: for example, Japan achieved a 40 percent reduction in plastic-bag use after cashiers were instructed to ask customers whether _______ wanted a bag.
A) they
B) one
C) you
D) it
A) they
Needing eight years to mature, the tree dies once its large heart is removed.
A) No Change
B) tree dies once their
C) trees die once its
D) tree dies once it’s
A) No Change
tree = singular = its
it's = it is
British scientists James Watson and Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in part for their 1953 paper announcing the double helix structure of __________ it is misleading to say that Watson and Crick discovered the double helix.
a) DNA, but
B) DNA:
C) DNA. Because
D) DNA,
A) DNA, but
Awarded a Newbery Medal, Doll Bones _____ the story of three children's quest to return a haunted doll to its proper grave site.
a) are
B) is
C) were
D) have been
B) is
Although novels and poems are considered distinct literary forms, many authors have created hybrid works that incorporate elements of both. Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor's Babe, _______ is a verse novel, a book-length narrative complete with characters and a plot but conveyed in short, crisp lines of poetry rather than prose.
A) by contrast,
B) consequently,
C) secondly,
D) for example,
D) for example,
The accountant had a complex system you had to message him on WhatsApp, schedule your appointment a week ahead of time, and complete an intake form before you even got to talk to him.
A) No Change
B) system: you had to message him
C) system, you had to message him
D) system, you had to message him,
B) system: you had to message him
complete sentence: explanation of complex system
Many people might be surprised to learn that the American way of computing a person’s age differs from the traditional Korean way. In Korean tradition, a person is considered to be already one year old at the time of his or her birth.
As a child growing up in two cultures, I found this contest a bit confusing. When I was in the fifth grade, was I ten or eleven years old?
A. NO CHANGE
B. change
C. dispute
D. difference
D. difference
The two traditions aren’t having a fight; they contrast simply because they have different characteristics.
Let’s start with the given word, “contest." A contest implies some form of formal competition between two things. Though the author says that there are differences between American and Korean age counting traditions, he doesn’t imply that they were actually in competition with each other. So (A) is out.
Let’s look at (B). “Change” implies that something was one way, and then became another way. This doesn’t work because these traditions haven’t changed from one to the other - they were just different to begin with. So (B) is out.
(C) is quite similar to (A), in that “dispute," like “contest," shows a direct conflict between two things. Again, this doesn’t really work because the two traditions aren’t actually competing with each other.
Japanese origami is like both science and ___________ experimentation, trial-and-error, and years of experience.
a) art— it requires—
B) art: it requires
C) art, it requires
D) art it requires
B) art: it requires
The classic children’s board game Chutes and Ladders is a version of an ancient Nepalese game, Paramapada Sopanapata. In both games, players encounter “good” or “bad” spaces while traveling along a path; landing on one of the good spaces _______ a player to skip ahead and arrive closer to the end goal.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) allows
B) are allowing
C) have allowed
D) allow
A) allows
At two weeks old, the time their critical socialization period begins, wolves can smell but cannot yet see or hear. Domesticated dogs, _______ can see, hear, and smell by the end of two weeks. This relative lack of sensory input may help explain why wolves behave so differently around humans than dogs do: from a very young age, wolves are more wary and less exploratory.
A) in other words,
B) for instance,
C) by contrast,
D) accordingly,
C) by contrast,
My cousin had explained this process to me, his voice conspiratorial, during a summer visit to my hometown in Michigan, I knew if I hung around, he would share his accounting background knowledge with me.
A) No Change
B) my hometown, in Michigan, I knew
C) my hometown in Michigan, I knew,
D) my hometown in Michigan. I knew
D) my hometown in Michigan. I knew
use a period after Michigan = end of sentence. I knew = start of next sentence.
My mom and dad grow mango trees in their backyard. In my 33 years, as a red-blooded Mexican American, I have eaten mangoes from my parents home country fewer than 5 times on U.S. soil.
A) No Change
B) parent's
C) parents'
D) parents's
C) parents'
home belongs to parents so there is possession
parents = plural so s'
's = singular (if there was one parent)
In 1943, in the midst of World War II, mathematics professor Grace Hopper was recruited by the US military to help the war effort by solving complex equations. Hopper’s subsequent career would involve more than just _______ as a pioneering computer programmer, Hopper would help usher in the digital age.
A) equations, though:
B) equations, though,
C) equations. Though,
D) equations though
A) equations, though:
After discovering that children who grow up on farms are less likely to suffer from asthma and allergies, researchers is trying to isolate the compounds in farm dust that lead to this protection
a) No Change
B) tries
C) has tried
D) are trying
D) Are trying
Researchers Helena Mihaljević-Brandt, Lucía Santamaría, and Marco Tullney report that while mathematicians may have traditionally worked alone, evidence points to a shift in the opposite direction. _______ mathematicians are choosing to collaborate with their peers—a trend illustrated by a rise in the number of mathematics publications credited to multiple authors.
A) Similarly,
B) For this reason,
C) Furthermore,
D) Increasingly,
D) Increasingly,
The cargo facility's waiting are was small; with only one attendant moving packages.
A) No Change
B) waiting area was small, with only one attendant.
C) waiting area was small: with only one attendant.
D) waiting area was small with only one attendant.
D) waiting area was small with only one attendant.
with is a connecting word = no punctuation with word 'with'
Goya felt that Spanish society had become foolish and irrational, and his words, in effect, illustrated his various complaints.
a) NO CHANGE
B) in affect
C) effectively
D) affectively
A) NO CHANGE