- It can be really embarrassing to be so emotional. Especially when you are on your first date, you feel that you should be in control.
Your answer:
Fragment
Correct
- Within each group, a wide range of features to choose from. It was difficult to distinguish between them.
Your answer:
Fragment
Correct
- With my brother standing by my side, I reached for the pot handle. Tilting the pot way too much caused the boiling water to spill.
Your answer:
Fragment
Correct
- Being a friend of mine like he was when we first joined the soccer team. Together we learned a lot.
Your answer:
Fragment
Correct
- Then I attended Morris Junior High. A junior high that was a bad experience.
Your answer:
Fragment
Correct
- If the club limited its membership, it will have to raise its dues.
Your answer:
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory
- I was terribly disappointed with my grade because I studied very hard.
Your answer:
Unsatisfactory
Satisfactory
- Can you give me ______ information?
Your answer:
a little
a few
- If Sabri _____ in an important meeting, he would go home.
Your answer:
weren't
wasn't
- Next August, Maria and Jose _______ for 10 years.
Your answer:
will be married
will have been married
- When your plane ______, call me.
Your answer:
will arrive
arrives
- Deciding to join the Navy, the recruiter enthusiastically pumped Joy's hand.
Your answer:
Good sentence
Bad senetnce
- Yolanda lifted easily the 50-pound weight.
Your answer:
Good sentence
Bad sentence
- Everyone hopes the plan would work.
Your answer:
Good sentence
Problem with shift in tense
Wrong verb tense
Fragment
- Scientists predict that the sun will die in the distant future.
Your answer:
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory
- You must be talented to be able to write well.
Your answer:
True
False
- Arabs are very wealthy.
Your answer:
Logical
Illogical
- Vietnam is a wonderful country.
Your answer:
Opinion
Fact
- English grammar is very difficult.
Your answer:
Opinion
Fact
- Abortion should be made illegal because it is against God's wishes.
Your answer:
Effective
Ineffective
- Cigarette smoking is dangerous and expensive.
Your answer:
Ineffective
Effective
- My paper is going to be about abortion.
Your answer:
Vague thesis statement
An announcement
Effective thesis statement
Too general
- The jury has reached their decision.
Your answer:
Verb tense problem
Verb form problem
Pronoun problem
No problem
- Our ability to use language is one of the things that sets us apart from other animals.
Your answer:
Verb tense problem
Verb form problem
Meaning problem
No problem
- I _____ my work if you hadn't helped me.
Your answer:
would not finish
couldn't have finished
wasn't able to finish
hadn't been able to finish
- If Maria _____, she probably wouldn't have failed her exam.
Your answer:
might have studied
studied
had studied
weren't too busy
- Thanks a lot, but you ____ me a birthday present!
Your answer:
didn't have to give
couldn't give
must not have given
hadn't given
- No, ____ a good time at this party. Let's leave.
Your answer:
I won't be having
I didn't have
I am not having
I don't have
- She opened the door and let us into her home. Not realizing at the time that we would never enter that door in her home again.
Your answer:
Fragment
Problem with tense shift
Problem with verb tense
No problem
- After Capt. James Cook visited Alaska on his third voyage, he is killed by Hawaiian islanders in 1779.
Your answer:
Problem with verb tense
No problem
Fragment
Problem with tense shift