Deck 22: Correction Symbols

Question 1

A linking verb is always followed by a noun, pronoun, or adjective.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Which of the following possessive phrases is not correct?

A) The team's contract with the players
B) The teams' contract with the players
C) It's advantages to the players
D) Its advantages to the players

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is a demonstrative pronoun?

A) Who
B) This
C) Anyone
D) He

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following terms should not be hyphenated?

A) We had a long-term relationship.
B) The relationship was long-term.
C) That is one self-confident politician.
D) I introduced her as my ex-wife.

Question 5

Punctuation goes inside quotation marks if the whole sentence is quoted but outside the quotation marks if only the last part of the sentence is a quote.

Question 6

Which of the following is a sentence fragment?

A) Moxie, depending on his friends for support.
B) Come here.
C) He put the package in the mail right away.
D) The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Question 7

The verb "do" is an example of a regular verb.

Question 8

Which of the following punctuation marks is used to separate a dependent clause at the beginning of a sentence from the rest of the sentence?

A) Comma
B) Semicolon
C) Colon
D) Dash

Question 9

What is the tense of the verb in this sentence? "We had given Tim the money a week before he arrived."

A) Past
B) Future
C) Present
D) Past perfect

Question 10

What is the problem with this sentence? "We can give him a small raise, he deserves it."

A) Dangling modifier
B) Comma splice
C) Sentence fragment
D) Nothing

Question 11

The plural of "son-in-law" is "sons-in-law," but the possessive is "son-in-law's."

Question 12

Which of the following italicized words is an adjective?

A) silent movie
B) too dark
C) badly missed
D) into the theater

Question 13

In the following sentence, which word should not be capitalized? "After talking with President Hilda Bruckner, he decided that the Insurance industry would provide a suitable career for someone who was a graduate of the Department of Business at Gable University."

A) Department
B) Insurance
C) Gable
D) President

Question 14

You should include a comma when a date consists only of the month and year.

Question 15

Many adverbs are formed by adding "-ly" to adjectives.

Question 16

Which of the following words is misspelled?

A) Receive
B) Occurrence
C) Accomodate
D) Exaggerate

Question 17

The pronoun "who" is in the nominative case; the pronoun "whom" is in the objective case.

Question 18

The following sentence uses all words correctly: She was disinterested in paying me a complement.

Question 19

A semicolon is used to separate independent clauses when the second clause begins with a conjunctive adverb such as "however" or "therefore."

Question 20

The difference between "lie" and "lay" is that "lie" is an intransitive verb and "lay" is a transitive verb.