403B - 2.08 Unit Test Prep

Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.

After giving his side of the argument in the debate, Michael listened impatiently to his opponent as he waited to give his _____________.

• refusal

• refutation

• remediation

• rambunctious

Though it was unfortunate that Amy's car wouldn't start, it was __________ that her friend was available to cover her shift at work.

• inconsequential

• unbiased

• fortuitous

• collaborated

Sarah's _________ reaction to the news that her friend was getting married covered up the _________ she felt over her own relationship break-up.

• boisterous; dejection

• irate; enthusiastic

• intrepid; opulent

• intuitive; spontaneous

Since the prosecutor was unable to ____________ the accusations, the jury decided to __________ the defendant.

• extenuating; superfluous

• substantiate; emancipate

• entail; querulous

• impute; abhor

There were no eye witnesses to _________ the accusations, so the charges against the _________ had to be dropped.

• contradict; repudiate

• scrutinize; digress

• corroborate; litigant

• abdicate; hedonistic

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error.

While reading about the Romantic poet, William Wordsworth I learned he was friends with another poet named Samuel Coleridge.

• While reading about the

• Wordsworth I

• named Samuel Coleridge

• No error

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error.

Mark was ready for summer weather as he drives to work in the cold, rainy weather.

• ready for summer

• he drives

• cold, rainy

• No error

Each of the sentences provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify the section that contains the error, if there is one, by selecting the appropriate answer choice. If there is no error in the sentence, choose no error.

I wish you could come to the party with Melissa and I.

• I wish

• could come to

• Melissa and I

• No error

In competitive cheerleading, endurance, strength, and to have coordination is important.

• In competitive cheerleading

• and to have coordination

• important

• No error

Now that I am older, I love reading Shakespeare, but I hated it when I am in high school.

• Now that I am older,

• but I hated

• when I am

• No error