Diagnostic quiz 1

For each question, choose the alternative you consider the best  to make the sentence correct

 

Most fashion designers agree that diligence, creativity, and a keen understanding of popular tastes are a requirement for sustained success in their profession.

• (A) No change

• (B) is a requirement

• (C) are requirements

• (D) being requirements

For each question, choose the alternative you consider the best  to make the sentence correct

The tour guide warned us to lower our head when entering the old castle, since the old

doorway was very low. 

• (A) No changes

• (B) to lower us heads

• (C) in lowering our heads

• (D) to lower our heads

For each question, choose the alternative you consider the best  to make the sentence correct

Amusement parks, particularly those featuring water rides, are a fun place for

families to visit during the hot summer months.

• (A) No change

• (B) is a fun place

• (C) are fun places

• (D) and are fun places

For each question, choose the alternative you consider the best  to make the sentence correct

A significant factor to include in the budget when buying a car are the costs of fuel  maintenance and the insurance payments.

• (A) No change

• (B) A significant factors

• (C) Significant factors

• (D) As a significant factor 

For each question, choose the alternative you consider the best  to make the sentence correct

A majority of the students who attended the job fair expressed interest in becoming a doctor or lawyer.

• (A) No change

• (B) doctors and lawyers

• (C) a doctor and lawyers

• (D) doctors and also lawyers

For each question, choose the alternative you consider the best  to make the sentence correct

 

The novelists who readers choose as their favorites are not always the most skilled writers.

• (A) No change

• (B) whom are reading 

• (C) whom readers

• (D) who readers may

For each question, choose the alternative you consider the best  to make the sentence correct

Perhaps the most extra ordinary feature of the African elephants is there amazingly versatile trunk.

• (A) No change

• (B) their

• (C) they're

• (D) theirs

For each question, choose the alternative you consider the best  to make the sentence correct

If we plan carefully and waste no time on irrelevant topics, you should be able to

finish the essay in twenty minutes.  

• (A) No change

• (B) you 

• (C) he

• (D) one

For each question, choose the alternative you consider the best  to make the sentence correct

The relationship between goby fish and striped shrimp are truly symbiotic, for neither can survive without the other. 

• (A) No change

• (B) were

• (C) have

• (D) is

For each question, choose the alternative you consider the best  to make the sentence correct

A sweetener, normally either sugar or syrup, are used in almost all bread for taste or as an aid yeast growth.

• (A) No change

• (B) is used

• (C) are using

• (D) have used