Exam 19: Composition

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. Greetings consists of speaking, shaking their hands, and smiling.

Which course of action most improves the following sentence? The committee constitutes eleven persons from departments throughout the company.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. However, it is unclear if the new provisions will cover the loans as property prices continue to fall and the recession continues.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. The World Wildlife Foundation recently reports that the number of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico has declined drastically.

Which course of action most improves the following sentence? If you would have taken out a second mortgage to finance your vacation, you would be in trouble now that you are out of work.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. Along with gold, silver, and platinum, palladium is a precious metal owned and traded by investors.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. The government has requested loans to help their banks, but the government has not been able to repay the money.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. Private debt becoming public debt because of the lack of steady growth and credit availability.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. Corporations that produce genetically modified foods point to hundreds of studies that show that they are safe.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. After the division of Vietnam, the United States supports South Vietnam.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. After agreeing to another ceasefire; they returned to their former claimed areas.

Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. Both nations claims sovereignty over the islands.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. Recently, the new government ordered banks to set aside money for troubled, property, development loans because of the mortgage crisis and recession.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. The nicer a person look, the more respect he or she will receive.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. The first war between India and Pakistan began in 1947 and continued until 1949, when the United Nations stepped in and broker a ceasefire.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. That authority reverted back to Japan in 1971.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. Some people thought that her campaign would sour the fight for women's voting rights.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. Another important source of income for Belize is the influx of money from the Belizean's that work abroad.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A. The problems may lead to a international bailout that could destabilize the global economy.