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Billie Holiday was famous ___ singing the blues.

• for
• of
• with
• to

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13. If you ______________ the young boy this stick, he would hurt himself.

• gives
• gave
• give
• had given 

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What is the best change we can make to this sentence: 

When I opened my present I let out a yell.

• Delete When
• Change I to we
• Change I let out to and yell out
• Insert a comma after present.

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There is a huge traffic jam near the bank! The robber _____________ all the money, by the time the police comes.

• will have taken
• will take
• will be taking
• takes

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A teenage whose holding a shoebox containing a kitten smiles as other fly by.

• NO CHANGE

• thats

• as

• who's

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Identify the underlined clause as independent or subordinate:

You need to practice if you want to be a better reader.

• Independent

• Subordinate

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I wanted to learn about stars, __________ I did some research at the library.

• but

• or

• so

• yet

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I (stay) at the hotel for a fortnight when I received your letter.

• A. stayed

• B. had stayed

• C. had been staying

• was staying

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Mr. Groth threw the DBQ packet at the kid because he was frustrated.

• APPOSITIVE

• COMPOUND VERB

• PARTICIPIAL PHRASE

• PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE

• DEPENDENT CLAUSE

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They ________ the cottage that weekend.

• using

• 'll be using

• 're be using

• 's be using

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