QUESTION 1 Having studied small engine repair in night school, fixing the lawn mower was easy. misplaced modifier dangling modifier faulty...

QUESTION 1

Having studied small engine repair in night school, fixing the lawn mower was easy.

misplaced modifier

dangling modifier

faulty predication

incomplete comparison

QUESTION 2

When I asked for a submarine, the convenience store clerk said he didn't have kits for making model ships with a confused look.

misplaced modifier

dangling modifier

faulty predication

incomplete comparison

QUESTION 3

I always think linen napkins are nicer.

misplaced modifier

dangling modifier

faulty predication

incomplete comparison

QUESTION 4

The reason she is not here is because she is ill.

misplaced modifier

dangling modifier

faulty predication

incomplete comparison

QUESTION 5

The wind was howling and blowing a hundred miles an hour when suddenly there is a big crash, and a tree falls into Rocky's living room.  The sentence shifts in

person

tense

discourse

voice and subject

QUESTION 6

The bulldozer clanked into the woods and the ground was disturbed.  This sentence shifts in

number

mood

voice and subject

discourse

QUESTION 7

Some used car salesmen twist the truth.  Be careful when you talk to them.  This sentence shifts in

mood

voice and subject

person

number

QUESTION 8

If one smokes cigarettes, you run the risk of getting lung cancer.

number

mood

tense

person

QUESTION 9

Anyone who rides a bicycle every day will discover that they develop some muscles not developed by jogging.  This sentence shifts in

person

number

mood

discourse

QUESTION 10

The person sat down at the counter and asked did we have any scruples.  This sentence shifts in

mood

discourse

tense

voice and subject

QUESTION 11

He brought home a new car--large, fire-engine red, fast, and which he could not afford.

unclear pronoun reference

lack of parallelism

mixed metaphor

simile

QUESTION 12

He wrote a hot check.  The word hot is used

connotatively

denotatively

QUESTION 13

Hot flames poured out of the grill.  The word hot is used

connotatively

denotatively

QUESTION 14

Have you booted the disk?  The word booted is

jargon

sexist language

euphemism

regional

QUESTION 15

When is the blessed event supposed to take place?  Blessed event is

jargon

sexist language

euphemism

colloquial

QUESTION 16

The male nurse left the room.  Male nurse is

jargon

sexist language

euphemism

colloquial

QUESTION 17

"Mortality weighs heavily upon me like an unwilling sleep" --Samuel Johnson

metaphor

simile

personification

hyperbole

QUESTION 18

He flunked the chemistry test.  Flunked is

jargon

sexist language

euphemism

slang

QUESTION 19

"But time did beckon to the flowers"--Herbert

metaphor

simile

personification

hyperbole

QUESTION 20

Here the once embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world.

metaphor

simile

personification

hyperbole

QUESTION 21

Select the most effective sentence.

Baxter worried about his English exam when he thought about it.

Baxter felt a pang of existential enxiety when he comtemplated his English exam.

When Baxter thought of his English test, he freaked out.

Thinking about the English exam, worry came over Baxter.

QUESTION 22

Identify the type of organization used in the following sentence:  I went to the buffet six times, and I still saved room for dessert.

subordination

coordination

religious

secular

QUESTION 23

Identify the type of organization in the following sentence:  Since I was hungry again in an hour, I went to Whataburger.

secular

religious

subordination

coordination

QUESTION 24

I am ____ distraught over my horrible love life ____ commiserate with you over yours.

to, too

to, to

too, to

too, too

QUESTION 25

I wonder ____ jacket this is.  Does it belong to Jennie, ____ absent today?

whose, whose

who's, who's

who's, whose

whose, who's