Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 56

Underline the correct form in parentheses.
1. Volunteers who gave (bloods, blood) were served coffee and cookies afterward.
2. (Were, There were) only two donuts left in the box.
3. The instructions for the new computer were very (confused, confusing).
4. The snow began to fall (in, at) dawn and continued all day.
5. I stopped at a newsstand to buy (the magazine, a magazine) to read on the train.
6. A (large hairy, hairy large) spider crawled across the basement floor.
7. Susan agreed (marrying, to marry) her boyfriend but then changed her mind.
8. In the United States, Halloween is celebrated (on, in) October 31.
9. After we finished dinner, we (decided to go, decided to be going) to the movies.
10. Most (homes, home) in that neighborhood were affected by the blackout.