Adjectives and Adverbs

Parsons decided that most of the subway tunnel would be constructed using an innovation engineering method known as "cut and cover." Choose the correct answer.

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• innovate engineer

• innovative engineering

• innovate engineering

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CCSS.L.3.1A

What resulted from this siege was one of the largest humanitarian efforts to date. Pilots who had bombed Berlin relentless during the war were now called upon to deliver food—"Vittles"一as part of the Berlin Airlift. Choose the correct answer. (Hint: This one was on the video.)

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• unrelented

• unrelentless

• relentlessly

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

Through the 1920s, waist overalls or jeans we're primary considered work pants. Choose the correct answer.

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• primary were

• were primarily

• primarily we’re

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

McClintock believed maize (corn) was idealistically a plant to study because each ear had hundreds of kernels for each with a different set of chromosomes. Choose the correct answer.

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• an ideal plant

• an ideally plant

• an idealistic plant

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CCSS.L.3.1A

This happened after I heard some residents in the community where I now live talk favorable about the landfill. Choose the correct answer.

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• more favorable of

• favorably about

• In favor with

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

Similarly, Pei's design for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas, echoes the aim of city planners who wished to revitalize the Arts District while announcing Dallas's emergence as an international cultural center. Choose the correct answer.

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• international culturally

• internationally culturally

• internationally culture

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

After the contests, people came to her on their own to share even more stories.

Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

• still

• many

• much

• OMIT the underlined portion.

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CCSS.L.1.1D

CCSS.L.3.1A

Other tales were exaggeratedly and humorous accounts of harsh bosses and smarter workers, or of trickster animals such as Brer Rabbit and his cousins. Choose the correct answer.

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• exaggeratedly humorously

• exaggerated humorously

• exaggerated, humorous

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

Part of the problem is that we all own to many cars. Choose the correct answer.

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• way to many

• too much

• too many

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CCSS.L.3.1G

A portion of the ecosystem had been preserved in 1934 as Everglades National Park, the remainder faced relentless human pressures. Choose the correct answer.

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• relentlessly humanly

• human relentlessly

• relentless and humanly

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CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G