Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?
He confirmed he knew the house in that my friend lived many years ago.
Answer: C
It should read that my friend lived in.
In that is not a relative construction - the preposition either goes before which (in which my friend lived) or moves to the end after that. Both are correct; only in that is not.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. There is no meaning in what you say.
2. There is no meaning in that you say.
3. There is no meaning as to what you say.
4. There is no meaning that you say.
Answer: A
It is sentence 1.
What here is a relative pronoun meaning the thing which, and it is the object of say. That cannot introduce a noun clause after in, and as to what is redundant after meaning.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. Lina was born in the Czech village of Novemetro.
b. She grew up in warm and loving general store.
c. Her father owned the towns general store.
d. Her mother helped the customers.
Answer: B
b and c are incorrect.
Sentence b needs an article - grew up in a warm and loving general store. Sentence c needs the possessive apostrophe: the town's general store.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The teacher asked the students to thoroughly study this book.
2. The teacher asked the students thoroughly to study this book.
3. The teacher asked thoroughly the students to study this book.
4. The teacher asked the students to study thoroughly this book.
Answer: D
It is sentence 4.
The adverb belongs next to the verb it modifies, and thoroughly modifies study, so it goes immediately after it. Sentence 3 makes thoroughly modify asked instead, which changes the meaning.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. An one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
2. A one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
3. The one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
4. One-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
Answer: B
It is sentence 2.
The choice between a and an depends on sound, not spelling. One-eyed begins with a w sound, so it takes a, exactly as a university and a European do.
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Man, with wild animals, destroy the environment in many ways through sheer carelessness.
Answer: A
It should read destroys the environment.
The subject is man, which is singular; with wild animals is a prepositional phrase and does not join a second subject to it. Only and would make the verb plural.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. Alan was a young Spanish writer.
b. He made remarkable statement.
c. He said that shipwrecked men can keep alive by living on 'seafood'.
d. He decided on to prove that he was right.
Answer: D
b and d are incorrect.
Sentence b needs an article - made a remarkable statement. Sentence d has decided on to prove, where either decided to prove or decided on proving is correct, but not both constructions at once.
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They did not go there at the proper time, do they?
Answer: B
It should read did they?
A question tag reverses the polarity: a negative statement takes a positive tag. The statement is past simple negative, did not go, so the tag is did they.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. It was an anthropologist's dream.
b. A tribe of Stone Age people were discovered in the jungle.
c. The news excited scientists and journalists.
d. The cave men became media darlings.
Answer: A
Only b is incorrect.
A tribe was discovered - the subject is tribe, which is singular, and of Stone Age people is a prepositional phrase that does not change the agreement.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The teacher asked the student with a frown on his face to leave the room.
2. The teacher asked with a frown on his face the student to leave the room.
3. With a frown on his face the teacher asked the student to leave the room.
4. The teacher asked the student to leave the room with a frown on his face.
Answer: C
It is sentence 3.
The frown belongs to the teacher, so the phrase must sit next to teacher. In sentences 1 and 4 it attaches to the student or to the room, which is the classic misplaced modifier.
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