QUESTION 1: Having studied small engine repair in night school, fixing the lawn mower was easy.
misplaced modifier
dangling modifier
faulty predication
incomplete comparison
QUESTION 2: When I asked for a submarine, the convenience store clerk said he didn't have kits for making model ships with a confused look.
misplaced modifier
dangling modifier
faulty predication
incomplete comparison
QUESTION 3: I always think linen napkins are nicer.
misplaced modifier
dangling modifier
faulty predication
incomplete comparison
QUESTION 4: The reason she is not here is because she is ill.
misplaced modifier
dangling modifier
faulty predication
incomplete comparison
QUESTION 5: The wind was howling and blowing a hundred miles an hour when suddenly there is a big crash, and a tree falls into Rocky's living room. The sentence shifts in
person
tense
discourse
voice and subject
QUESTION 6: The bulldozer clanked into the woods and the ground was disturbed. This sentence shifts in
number
mood
voice and subject
discourse
QUESTION 7: Some used car salesmen twist the truth. Be careful when you talk to them. This sentence shifts in
mood
voice and subject
person
number
QUESTION 8: If one smokes cigarettes, you run the risk of getting lung cancer.
number
mood
tense
person
QUESTION 9: Anyone who rides a bicycle every day will discover that they develop some muscles not developed by jogging. This sentence shifts in
person
number
mood
discourse
QUESTION 10: The person sat down at the counter and asked did we have any scruples. This sentence shifts in
mood
discourse
tense
voice and subject
QUESTION 11: He brought home a new car--large, fire-engine red, fast, and which he could not afford.
unclear pronoun reference
lack of parallelism
mixed metaphor
simile
QUESTION 12: He wrote a hot check. The word hot is used
connotatively
denotatively
QUESTION 13: Hot flames poured out of the grill. The word hot is used
connotatively
denotatively
QUESTION 14: Have you booted the disk? The word booted is
jargon
sexist language
euphemism
regional
QUESTION 15: When is the blessed event supposed to take place? Blessed event is
jargon
sexist language
euphemism
colloquial
QUESTION 16: The male nurse left the room. Male nurse is
jargon
sexist language
euphemism
colloquial
QUESTION 17: "Mortality weighs heavily upon me like an unwilling sleep" --Samuel Johnson
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
QUESTION 18: He flunked the chemistry test. Flunked is
jargon
sexist language
euphemism
slang
QUESTION 19: "But time did beckon to the flowers"--Herbert
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
QUESTION 20: Here the once embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world.
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
QUESTION 21: Select the most effective sentence.
Baxter worried about his English exam when he thought about it.
Baxter felt a pang of existential enxiety when hecomtemplated his English exam.
When Baxter thought of his English test, he freaked out.
Thinking about the English exam, worry came over Baxter.
QUESTION 22: Identify the type of organization used in the following sentence: I went to the buffet six times, and I still saved room for dessert.
subordination
coordination
religious
secular
QUESTION 23: Identify the type of organization in the following sentence: Since I was hungry again in an hour, I went to Whataburger.
secular
religious
subordination
coordination
QUESTION 24: I am ____ distraught over my horrible love life ____ commiserate with you over yours.
to, too
to, to
too, to
too, too
QUESTION 25: I wonder ____ jacket this is. Does it belong to Jennie, ____ absent today?
whose, whose
who's, who's
who's, whose
whose, who's