Professional Documents
Culture Documents
EXERCISE
Skill 1 Subject-Verb
Write C in front of the sentence if the sentence is CORRECT and I if INCORRECT!
___ 1. My best friend always helpful with problems.
___ 2. The bus schedule has changed since last week.
___ 3. Accidentally dropped the glass on the floor.
___ 4. The customer paying the clerk for the clothes.
___ 5. The professor handed the syllabus to the students.
___ 6. Each day practiced the piano for hours.
___ 7. The basketball player tossed the ball into the hoop.
___ 8. The new student in the class very talkative and friendly.
___ 9. Walking with the children to school.
___ 10. The whales headed south for the winter.
Skills (1-2)
Write C in front of the sentence if the sentence is CORRECT and I if INCORRECT!
___ 1. During the meeting in the office discussed the schedule.
___ 2. The doctor gave the patient a prescription.
___ 3. The tall evergreen trees along the road.
___ 4. The watch in the jewelry box needs a new battery.
___ 5. Pleasantly greets everyone in all the offices every morning.
___ 6. In the office of the building across the street from the park on the corner.
___ 7. The dishes in the sink really need to be washed as soon as possible.
___ 8. In a moment of worry about the problem with the cash account.
___ 9. The plane from New York circling the airport.
___ 10. On a regular basis the plants in the boxes under the window in the kitchen are
watered and fed.
Skills (3-4)
Write C in front of the sentence if the sentence is CORRECT and I if INCORRECT!
___ 1. Our hosts are serving drinks on the tiled patio.
___ 2. The tired woman taking a much needed nap.
___ 3. The letters were sent on Monday arrived on Wednesday.
___ 4. The winners deserved the big prize.
Skills (5-6)
Write C in front of the sentence if the sentence is CORRECT and I if INCORRECT!
___ 1. The lawyer presented a strong case, but the client was still found guilty.
___ 2. After the children read some stories before they went to bed.
___ 3. The report needed to be completed, the workers stayed late every night for a
week.
___ 4. If you do not turn on the lights, you will trip in the dark.
___ 5. A think fog came rolling in, so planes unable to land.
___ 6. All of the shoes are on sale until the current stock is gone.
___ 7. The ship leaving the dock even though some passengers were not onboard.
___ 8. The outline must be turned in to the teachers a week before the paper is due,
and must approve it.
___ 9. Because the food was cold when it was served the diners sent it back to the
kitchen.
___ 10. You should slow down while you are driving, or the police will pull your car
over.
Skills (7-8)
Write C in front of the sentence if the sentence is CORRECT and I if INCORRECT!
___ 1. It doubtful whether he will pass the test or not.
___ 2. The group discussed who he should receive the prize.
___ 3. It is not certain why the class was cancelled.
___ 4. I will do what does it need to be done.
___ 5. We forgot when did the movie start.
___ 6. I would like to ask if you could come over for dinner this weekend.
___ 7. The children knew which the best game to play.
___ 8. The advisor informed her that needed to add another class.
___ 9. He saw who took the money.
___ 10. It is unclear how the window got broken.
Skills (9-10)
Write C in front of the sentence if the sentence is CORRECT and I if INCORRECT!
___ 1. My sisters prefer to eat food that have cooked themselves.
___ 2. The boat that hit the underwater rock sank.
___ 3. The car which he was driving could not possibly be his.
___ 4. The children built a house in the tree that in the back yard.
___ 5. The cost of the trip which we wanted to take.
___ 6. The children are playing with the toys which their mother told them to put away.
___ 7. The guests who were seated around the dinner table.
___ 8. The students have to read all the chapters which are on the test.
___ 9. I really do not like the artists which you like.
___ 10. The stones that they were set in the ring were quite valuable.
Skills (11-13)
Write a letter C in fron of the sentence if the sentence is CORRECT and write I if the
sentence is INCORRECT! If the sentence is INCORRECT, explain why, and make it
CORRECT!
___ 1. The receptionist in the entryway of the offices is able to answer your questions.
___ 2. All of the information in the documents are top secret.
___ 3. Anyone in one of the classes has to take the final exam.
___ 4. The coordinator of the community services are arranging the program.
___ 5. Most of the car are covered with mud.
___ 6. Nothing more is going to be completed today.
___ 7. The drinks in the pitchers on the table in the ballroom is for everybody.
___ 8. Everybody were told to be here at 8:00, but somebody is not here.
___ 9. Some of the meetings at the conference are limited to ten participants.
___ 10. The sauce on the vegetables in the yellow bowl taste really delicious.
Choose the letter of the underlined words or group of words what is not correct!
___ 5. The waters of the Chattahoochee River fills Lake Lanier.
A B C D
___ 6. The first set of false teeth similar to those in use today it was made in France in
A B C D
the 1780’s.
___ 7. The term ‘Yankee’ was originally a nickname for people from New England, but
A
now anyone from the United States are referred to as a Yankee.
Skills (14-15)
Write C in front of the sentence if the sentence is CORRECT and I if INCORRECT!
___ 1. The advertisements appeared in the newspaper and in the radio.
___ 2. She is trained as both an accountant and in nursing.
___ 3. We can take either my car or yours to the party.
___ 4. The coffee is too hot, too bitter, and too strength.
___ 5. He not only passed the test but also receiving the highest score in the class.
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___ 6. Your ideas are neither more important than the ideas of the others.
___ 7. The meeting lasted only an hour but still seeming too long.
___ 8. The novel was both emotional and description.
___ 9. Either the counselor of her secretary can help you with the problem.
___ 10. The leaves from the tree fell in the yard, in the pool, the driveway, and on the
sidewalk.
Choose the letter of the underlined words or group of words what is not correct!
___ 5. Coal, petroleum, and natural gaseous are all fossil fuels.
A B C D
___ 6. The mass of neutron stars generally range from one-tenth to twice the mass of
A B C D
the Sun.
___ 7. Grasses grow in ways that help them to survive being nibbled, chilly, or dried.
A B C D
___ 8. Most of the Hemingway’s novels glorifies heroic exploits such as bullfighting or
A B C
boxing.
D
___ 9. Paleographers study ancient and medieval handwriting in order to establish
A B C
not only its age and also its background.
D
___ 10. The sounds produced by bullfrogs and toad vary greatly because each species
A B
have its own particular call.
C D
2. In the United States, the participation of females in the labor force … from 37 percent in
1965 to 51 percent in 1980.
a. it jumped c. jumping
b. jump d. jumped
3. Some composers, such as Richard Wagner, have felt that … the action of the opera too
much and have written operas without them.
a. arias interrupt c. the interrupation of arias
b. interrupt arias d. areas of interruption
Choose the letter of the underlined words or group of words what is not correct!
___ 4. Water stored behind a dam can used to drive turbines.
A B C D
___ 5. Our universe may continue to expand as it gets colder, empty, and deader.
A B C D
___ 6. Every form of matter in the world are made up of atoms.
A B C D
___ 7. The lens and cornea are supply with nutrients and oxygen by the aqueous fluid.
A B C D
___ 8. Dodge City, laid out in 1872, owed both in prosperity and its famous to the
A B
buffalo in its early years.
C D
___ 9. The amount of the two kinds of cholesterol in the blood have been shown to
A B C
have an effect on the risk of heart attack.
D
___ 10. By the time Noah Webster reached his mid-twenties, he had already publish an
A B C
elementary speller.
D
Choose the letter of the underlined words or group of words what is not correct!
___ 4. A single protein molecule may being composed of tens of thousands of atoms.
A B C D
___ 5. Less plants grow in the poor taiga soils beneath the trees.
A B C D
___ 6. Vast reserves of oil and gas is located in the Gulf of Mexico.
A B C D
___ 7. Helium is colorless, taste element used to inflate balloons.
A B C D
___ 8. The common was the heart of every New England villages built in the
A B C D
eighteenth century.
___ 9. Some of the regulations that bind US institutions allows foreign banks to
A B C
package loans at hard-to-beat interest rates.
D
___ 10. In angioplasty, a catheter is thread through an artery and guided through the
A B
body to the blocked area.
C D
Skills (21-23)
Write C in front of the sentence if the sentence is CORRECT and I if INCORRECT!
___ 1. They sold the car to you and I.
___ 2. Please tell your brother that I need to talk to him.
___ 3. The bicycle lost it front wheel.
___ 4. Martha was happy when her boss gave her a pay raise.
___ 5. Just between us, I am not sure if we can trust them.
___ 6. The mother talked to her son about his behavior.
___ 7. I told his the truth, but he didn’t believe me.
___ 8. You and she should look for they.
___ 9. The student left his notebooks in the class, so he went back to get it.
___ 10. If the don’t have their car, we will lend them ours.
Choose the letter of the underlined words or group of words what is not correct!
___ 4. In 1785, Henry Knox was appoint the new republic’s first secretary of war.
A B C D
___ 5. Biophysics is one of the various branch of physics.
A B C D
___ 6. Unlike many great writers, Longfellow was an enormously popular poet in him
A B C D
day.
___ 7. After Lincoln’s assassination, Ford’s Theatre was closed and parts of it was
A B C
converted to government office space.
D
___ 8. Most of the Earth’s ice is found either in the two great ice caps of Antarctica
A B C
and Greenland and on the mountains of the world.
D
___ 9. Except for a few species, such as the spotted salamander, the courtship of
A
salamanders are secretive and not often observed.
B C D
___ 10. Unlike most mollusks, crustaceans outgrow their shells and need to build
A B
several completely new casings throughout they lives.
C D
Skills (24-25)
Write C in front of the sentence if the sentence is CORRECT and I if INCORRECT!
___ 1. The chef prepared a delicately sauce.
___ 2. Matthew feels terribly angry about the issue.
___ 3. The swimmers swam powerful across the pool.
___ 4. The receptionist answered the phone carefully.
___ 5. The dishes in the sink were very dirty.
___ 6. The physics exam seemed quite simply to me.
___ 7. He acted unbelievably rude.
___ 8. The burnt toast did not taste very good.
___ 9. The decision was absolutely necessary.
___ 10. The job applicant dressed carefully for the important interview.
Choose the letter of the underlined words or group of words what is not correct!
___ 4. The abrasively action of the wind wears away softer layers of rock.
A B C D
___ 5. There are two way of making a gas condense; cooling it or putting it under
A B C D
pressure.
___ 6. Researchers have discovered that the application of bright light can sometimes
A B
be uses to overcome jet lag.
C D
___ 7. Salmon migrations may include having to jump up waterfalls, swim up rapids,
A B
or climbing fish ladders at dams.
C D
___ 8. If a strike is called in violation of an existing contract between labor and
A B C
management, its a wildcat strike.
D
___ 9. Snapping turtles are easily recognized because of the large head, the long tail,
A B C
and the shell that seems insufficiently to protect the body.
D
___ 10. The long string of genes making up a chromosome have been likened to a
A B C D
string of pearls.