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1) Margo, as always, biked standing up, her arms locked as she leaned above the handlebars.  2) Her purple sneakers a circuitous blur. 3) It was a steam-hot day in March. 4) The sky was clear, but the air tasted acidic, like it might storm later.   - edited excerpt from John Green's Paper Towns

• 1 contains a fragment
• 2 contains a fragment
• 3 contains a fragment
• 4 contains a fragment

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The keys were stolen by the thief.

• Passive
• Active

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The past simple of the verb BREAK is...

• breaked
• broken
• break
• broke

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Do you think the kittens or the puppy (is, are) cuter? 

• are
• is

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Is the punctuation in the following sentence correct or incorrect?
When a sentence is unclear it is probably due to poor punctuation.

• correct
• incorrect

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Select the sentence that uses the comma rule incorrectly:

• She is nice, but also funny. 
• Although he is my dad, he is my friend. 
• Mom, get out of my face. 
• Her glowing, red eyes were evil. 

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I met .............boy. .........boy was very tall. 

• a, a
• the, a
• a, the
• the, the

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The dull, droning speech of the college president put us to sleep _________ the crash of her water glass on the floor woke us up.

• comma

• semicolon

• no punctuation

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The movie, including all the previews, _____ about two hours to watch.

• take
• takes

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Which of the following sentences is NOT written in active voice?

• Many scientists are studying the Loch Ness monster in Scotland.

• Experiments were conducted by scientists on Lake Winnipeg, Canada.

• Scientists have questioned some reports about the monster.

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