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Which sentence demonstrates correct subject-verb agreement?
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Correct answer: C - The committee, along with its two advisors, meets every Thursday.
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Which sentence demonstrates correct subject-verb agreement?
Correct answer: C - The committee, along with its two advisors, meets every Thursday.
Which word correctly completes the sentence? The scholarship committee will award the grant to ______ submits the most compelling proposal.
Correct answer: B - whoever
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Correct answer: D - The data were incomplete; however, the committee proceeded with its recommendation.
Which sentence contains a dangling modifier?
Correct answer: D - After completing the training, the certificate was mailed to participants.
Which sentence contains a usage error?
Correct answer: C - The report inferred that enrollment would continue to decline.
Which revision corrects the faulty parallelism in the sentence below? The new policy is intended not only to reduce paperwork but also improving response times.
Correct answer: A - The new policy is intended not only to reduce paperwork but also to improve response times.
Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. For decades, city planners treated stormwater as waste to be removed as quickly as possible, channeling it into concrete drains and out to rivers. That approach reduced local flooding but carried pollutants downstream and starved urban soils of moisture. Newer designs reverse the logic. Permeable pavements, roadside rain gardens, and green roofs slow water down and let it soak in where it falls. These installations cost more to build than a simple drain, yet cities that have adopted them report lower treatment costs and fewer overflow events during heavy storms. Which statement best expresses the central idea of the passage?
Correct answer: B - Urban stormwater design has shifted from rapid removal toward absorption.
Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. The district should replace its paper permission slips with an online system. Last year, staff spent an estimated 400 hours collecting, sorting, and filing paper forms. An online system would eliminate nearly all of that labor, freeing office staff for work that directly supports students. Districts of comparable size that have made the switch report recovering the cost of the software within two years. The argument depends on which unstated assumption?
Correct answer: D - Families have reliable internet access and devices for submitting forms.
Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. The curator's decision to hang the two portraits side by side was not accidental. Placed together, the paintings qualify one another: the confident stance of the older subject reads differently beside the uncertainty in the younger sitter's face, and the effect is to soften what either canvas alone might assert. As used in the passage, the word 'qualify' most nearly means:
Correct answer: C - to limit or moderate the force of
Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. A recent survey found that students who participate in school music programs earn higher grade point averages than students who do not. The author of the report concludes that expanding music instruction would raise academic achievement across the district. Which weakness most seriously undermines the report's conclusion?
Correct answer: A - Students who choose music may differ in ways that affect grades.
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