Admission English g9 SCIS

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Which sentence correctly uses an adverbial clause to combine sentences 1 and 2?

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When school let out early last June, my family traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, for vacation.

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Which is the BEST revision for sentence 4 to properly use the colon?

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The swamp tour brochure promised we would see a variety of interesting “critters”: great blue herons, pelicans, otters, mink, armadillos, and alligators.

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The simple conditional tense of the verb phrase 'would see' suggests that an action —

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might take place

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Correct the spelling of a plural noun in sentences 3–4.

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Change armadilloes to armadillos

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Which revision of sentence 6 is correctly written in the active voice?

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We boarded the tour bus early in the morning.

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Which prepositional phrase would add necessary information to sentence 7?

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For hours we floated through the bayous, marshes, and swamps.

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Correct the spelling of a plural noun in sentences 7–8: marshes, lilys, varieties.

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Change lilys to lilies

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If the author changed had lived to lived and had hidden to hid in sentence 10, it would mean that the Native Americans and the pirates —

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were currently doing the action

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Which revision of sentence 12 is correctly written in the active voice? Options: We spotted a family of otters ahead of the boat., Ahead of the boat was a family of otters that had been spotted., The family of otters that was spotted was ahead of the boat., The family of otters ahead of the boat were the ones that were spotted.

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We spotted a family of otters ahead of the boat.

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Which adverb phrase adds necessary information to sentence 21? Options: eyes of yellow, protruding from the surface, was in essence, camouflaged in the green water

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protruding from the surface