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Sentence Correction

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

To develop more accurate population forecasts, demographers have to know a great deal more than now about the social and economic determinants of fertility.

a)

have to know a great deal more than now about the social and economic

b)

have to know a great deal more than they do now about the social and economical

c)

would have to know a great deal more than they do now about the social and economical

d)

would have to know a great deal more than they do now about the social and economic

e)

would have to know a great deal more than now about the social and economic

2.

Five fledgling sea eagles left their nests in western Scotland this summer, bringing to 34 the number of wild birds successfully raised since transplants from Norway began in 1975.

a)

bringing

b)

and brings

c)

and it brings

d)

and it brought

e)

and brought

3.

Among the objects found in the excavated temple were small terra-cotta effigies left by supplicants who were either asking the goddess Bona Dea’s aid in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help.

a)

in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help

b)

in healing physical and mental ills and to thank her for helping

c)

in healing physical and mental ills, and thanking her for helping

d)

to heal physical and mental ills or to thank her for such help

e)

to heal physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help

4.

Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, excepting for the domains of administration and teaching, the English language was never really spoken on the island.

a)

excepting for

b)

except in

c)

but except in

d)

but excepting for

e)

with the exception of

5.

Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the size of the 6-mile-wide asteroid that eradicated the dinosaurs has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is evidence of the earliest known asteroid impact on Earth.

a)

has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is

b)

has been dated at 3.47 billion of years old and thus

c)

have been dated to be 3.47 billion of years old and thus are

d)

have been dated as being 3.47 billion years old and thus

e)

have been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus are

6.

A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.

a)

reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump

b)

reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping

c)

reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump

d)

reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump

e)

reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities

7.

The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word “natural” to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives,or nothing that has beensynthesized.

a)

or nothing that has been

b)

or that has been

c)

and nothing that is

d)

or anything that has been

e)

and anything

8.

Recently physicians have determined that stomach ulcers are not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but a bacterium that dwells in the mucous lining of the stomach.

a)

not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but

b)

not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but are by

c)

caused not by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but by

d)

caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but

e)

caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but are by

9.

His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the range of present-day glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets had existed in now currently temperate areas.

a)

in which great ice sheets had existed in now currently temperate areas

b)

in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas

c)

when great ice sheets existed where there were areas now temperate

d)

when great ice sheets had existed in current temperate areas

e)

when great ice sheets existed in areas now that are temperate

10.

Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, creating a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.

a)

creating a special nongovernment organization to take

b)

creating a special nongovernment organization that takes

c)

creating a special nongovernment organization for taking

d)

and create a special nongovernment organization for taking

e)

and create a special nongovernment organization to take