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Which of the following items violates the standards of capitalization?

• Football team

• court

• desert

• Mojave Desert

Which of the following items violates the standards of capitalization?

• ethnic group

• Metropolitan Museum Of Art

• organization

• nationality

Which of the following items violates the standards of capitalization?

• republican theories

• Republican

• Coca-Cola Company

• perry street

Which of the following violates the standards of capitalization?

• deity

• Summer

• Wednesday

• newspaper

Which of the following violates the standards of capitalization?

• law

• labor day

• baseball game

• ship

Which of the following sentences is properly combined by a coordinating conjunction?

• The lamp broke, so I had to use a flashlight.

• The lamp broke, but I had to use a flashlight.

• The lamp broke, nor I had to use a flashlight.

• The lamp broke, yet I had to use a flashlight.

1. Which of the following sentences is a proper combination of the sentences:

The sun rises every day. The time that that it rises is early morning.

• The sun rises every day is early morning.

• The sun rises early in the morning every day.

• Early morning rises the sun every day.

• Every day early in the morning the sun rises.

1. Which of the following sentences is an improper combination of the sentences:

George Washington sat. He sat with an ax. He sat beneath the cherry tree.

• George Washington sat with an ax beneath the cherry tree.

• Beneath the cherry tree, George Washington sat with an ax.

• With an ax beneath the cherry tree, George Washington sat.

• George Washington sit with an ax beneath the cherry tree.

Which of the following items adheres to the standards of numbers and numerals

• Although 95% of the crowd was peaceful, the remaining five% caused some trouble.

• Although 95 percent of the crowd was peaceful the remaining five percent caused some trouble.

• Although 95 percent of the crowd was peaceful, the remaining 5 percent caused some trouble.

• Although 95 percent of the crowd was peaceful, the remaining 5% caused come trouble.

Which of the following items adheres to the standards if numbers and numerals?

• Linda’s assignment was to read page one hundred to page 234 in her history book.

• Linda’s assignment was to read page 100 to page two hundred thirty-four in her history book.

• Linda’s assignment was to read page one hundred to page two hundred thirty-four in her history book.

• Linda’s assignment was to read page 100 to page 234 in her history book.