Practice Test 2

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 1?

(1)The story begins with the unnamed narrater visiting an observatory.

• Place a comma after “visiting.”

• Delete the word “begin.”

• Change “narrater” to “narrator.”

• Capitalize “observatory”

What change should be made to sentences (1) & (2)?

(1)The story begins with the unnamed narrater visiting an observatory. (2) There he is shown explosions of the surface of Mars.

• Remove the period and put in a comma.

• Change “explosions” to “explosive”

• Change “Mars” to “mars.”

• Join the two sentences using a semicolon “;”.

What change should be made to sentence (3)?

(3) Shortly afterwards an apparent meteor lands close to the narrator's house in Surrey.

• Insert a comma after “afterwards.”

• Change “meteor” to “Meteor.”

• Change “narrator’s” to “narrators.”

• Change “close to” to “closely.”

What change should be made to sentence (4)?

(4) When he goes to look, he sees the first of the martians emerging from its spacecraft.

• Change “martians” to “Martians.”

• Change “goes” to “had gone.”

• Change “Surrey” to “surrey.”

• Change the “,” after look to a “:”.

What change should be made to sentence (5)?

(5) The invaiders went to work setting up strange machinery, building powerful heat rays, and incinerating any who approached.

• Change “invaiders” to “invaders.”

• You capitalize “Heat Ray.”

• Place a semicolon after work. ( ; )

• Make no changes.

What change should be made to sentence (6)?

(6) The narrator takes his wife to presumed safety then returns just in time to witness gigantic tripods Martian war machines armed with heat rays and poisonous black smoke smashing their way through the massed ranks of the British Army.

• Change “takes” to “takes’.”

• Insert a comma after “tripods” and “smoke.”

• Change “British Army” to “British army.”

• Make no changes.

What change should be made to sentence (7)?

(7) Three tripods are brought down in a succession of battles before the army and navy are routed the Martians are reinforcing their invasion.

• Place a semicolon after “routed.”

• Insert a comma after “tripods.”

• Change “brought” to “bring”

• Capitalize “army and navy”

How should you rewrite sentence (10)?

(10) It seems they intend to treat humanity as something bad.

• Treat humanity badly- they do- YES!

• It seems the Martians intend to treat humanity as nothing more than a food source!

• They intend to treat humanity as humanity needs to be treated!

• It seems that the martians intend to use humanity as food!

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence?

Mary Shelley wrote one of the scary book of all time.

• Change "wrote" to "write"

• Change "scary" to "scariest"

• Change "time" to "times"

• Make no change

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence?

The belief that ghosts are real could led to the exploration of potentially haunted areas.

• Change "belief" to "beliefs"

• Change "could" to "could" to "might"

• Change "led" to "lead"

• Make no change