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Grammar Session

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Choose the correct option.


The North Pole...a latitude of 90 degrees north

a)

it has

b)

is having

c)

which is having

d)

has

2.

Choose the correct option.


The city of Beverly Hills is surrounded on...the city of Los Angeles.

a)

its sides

b)

the sides are

c)

it is the side of

d)

all sides by

3.

Choose the correct option.


... greyhound, can achieve speeds up to thirty-six miles per hour

a)

the

b)

the fastest

c)

the fastest dog

d)

the fastest dog, the

4.

Choose the correct option.


Marmots spend their time foraging among meadow plants and flowers or... on rocky cliffs

a)

gets sun

b)

sunning

c)

the sun

d)

sunny

5.

Choose the correct option.


The greenhouse effect occurs.......heat radiated from the Sun

a)

when does the Earth's atmosphere trap

b)

does the Earth's atmosphere trap

c)

when the Earth's atmosphere traps

d)

the Earth's atmosphere traps

6.

Choose the correct option.


The Rose Bowl, .....place on New Year's Day, is the oldest postseason collegiate football game in the United States

a)

takes

b)

it takes

c)

which takes

d)

took

7.

Choose the correct option.


Experiments.....represents a giant step into the medicine of the future

a)

using gene therapy

b)

use gene therapy

c)

they use

d)

gene therapy uses

8.

Choose the correct option.


....off the Hawaiian coastline are living, others are dead.

a)

While some types of coral reefs

b)

Some types of coral reefs

c)

There are many types of coral reefs

d)

Coral reefs

9.

Choose the correct option.


Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark gray clouds.....

forebode rain

a)

what

b)

which

c)

what they

d)

which they

10.

Choose the correct option.


Some economists now suggest that home equity loans are merely a new trap to push consumers beyond.....

a)

they can afford

b)

they can afford it

c)

what is affordable

d)

able to afford

11.

Choose the correct option.


People who reverse the letters of words....to read suffer from dyslexia

a)

when trying

b)

if they tried

c)

when tried

d)

if he tries

12.

Choose the correct option.


Featured at the Henry Ford Museum....of antique cars dating from 1865

a)

is an exhibition

b)

an exhibit

c)

an exhibit is

d)

which is an exhibit

13.

Choose the correct option.


Rubber....from vulcanized silicones with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber

a)

is produced

b)

producing

c)

that produces

d)

produced

14.

Choose the correct option.


.....appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely an optical illusion

a)

The Moon

b)

That the Moon

c)

When the Moon

d)

The Moon which

15.

Choose the correct option.


According to the World of Health Organization, ..... any of the six most dangerous diseases to break out, it could be cause for quarantine.

a)

were

b)

they were

c)

there were

d)

were they

16.

Find the error in each sentence below.

On the floor of the Pacific Ocean is hundreds of flat-topped mountains more than a mile beneath sea level

a)

the floor

b)

is

c)

flat-topped

d)

more than

17.

Find the error in each sentence.


Because of the flourish with which John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, his name become synonymous with signature

a)

which

b)

his

c)

become

d)

synonymous

18.

Find the error in each sentence.


Segregation in public schools was declare unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1954

a)

public

b)

was declare

c)

unconstitutional

d)

in 1954

19.

Find the error in each sentence.


Sirius, the Dog Star, is the most brightest star in the sky with an absolute magnitude about twenty-three times that of the Sun

a)

the most brightest

b)

an absolute

c)

twenty-three times

d)

that

20.

Find the error in each sentence.


Killer whales tend to wander in family clusters that hunt, play, and resting together

a)

tend

b)

to wander

c)

resting

d)

together

21.

Find the error in each sentence.


Some of the most useful resistor material are carbon, metals, and metallic alloys

a)

some of

b)

most useful resistor

c)

material

d)

metallic

22.

Find the error in each sentence.


The community of Bethesda, Maryland, was previous known as Darcy's Store.

a)

thcommunity

b)

previous

c)

known

d)

as

23.

Find the error in each sentence.


Alloys of gold or cooper have been widely using in various types of coins

a)

have

b)

widely

c)

using

d)

various

24.

Find the error in each sentence.


J.H. Pratt used group therapy early in this century when he brought tuberculosis patients together to discuss its disease

a)

group

b)

early

c)

when he

d)

its

25.

Find the error in each sentence.


The United States has import all carpet wools in recent years because domestic wools are too fine and soft for carpets.

a)

import

b)

all

c)

because

d)

too fine

26.

Find the error in each sentence.


Irving Berlin wrote "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" while serving in a U.S. Army during World War I.

a)

wrote

b)

while serving

c)

a

d)

during

27.

Find the error in each sentence.


Banks are rushing to merge because consolidations enable them to slash theirs costs and expand.

a)

are rushing

b)

eanble them

c)

theirs

d)

expand

28.

Find the error in each sentence.


That water has a very high specific heat means that a large temperature change water can add or lose a large number of heat.

a)

that

b)

means

c)

add or lose

d)

number

29.

Find the error in each sentence.


Benny Goodman was equally talented as both a jazz performer as well as a Classical musician.

a)

equally

b)

performer

c)

as well as

d)

Classical mucisian

30.

Find the error in each sentence.


The state seal still used in Massachusetts designed by Paul Revere, who also designed the first Continental currency.

a)

still used

b)

designed

c)

who

d)

the first

31.

Find the error in each sentence.


Quarter horses were developed in eighteenth-century Virginia to race on courses short of about a quarter of a mile in length.

a)

to race

b)

courses short

c)

of a mile

d)

in length

32.

Find the error in each sentence.


William Hart was an act best known for his roles as western heroes in silent films.

a)

act

b)

best known

c)

his

d)

as

33.

Find the error in each sentence.


No longer satisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn School, Martha Graham has moved to the staff of the Eastman School in 1925.

a)

no longer

b)

satisfied

c)

the emphasis

d)

has moved

34.

Find the error in each sentence.


Prior to an extermination program earlier this century, live wolves roamed across nearly all of North America.

a)

prior

b)

earlier

c)

live

d)

across nearly

35.

Find the error in each sentence.


During the 1960s the Berkeley campus of the University of California came to national attention as a result its radical political activity.

a)

during

b)

came

c)

result

d)

political

36.

Find the error in each sentence.


Artist Gutzon Borglum designed the Mount Rushmore Memorial and worked on project from 1925 until his death in 1941

a)

artist

b)

project

c)

until

d)

his

37.

Find the error in each sentence.


It is proving less costly and more profitably for drug-makers to market directly to patients.

a)

costly

b)

profitably

c)

to market

d)

directly

38.

Find the error in each sentence.


Sapphires weighing as much as two pounds have on occasion mined.

a)

weighing

b)

as

c)

two pounds

d)

mined

39.

Find the error in each sentence.


Like snakes, lizards can be found on all others continents except Antarctica.

a)

like

b)

be found

c)

others

d)

except

40.

Find the error in each sentence.


Banks, savings and loans, and finance companies have recently been doing home equity loans with greater frequency than ever before.

a)

have recently

b)

doing

c)

greater frequency

d)

even before