Writing Skills Flashcards
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Which sentence correctly uses a semicolon?
Answer: She studied hard; she passed the exam.
A semicolon joins two closely related independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction.
Which option corrects the subject-verb agreement error: 'Neither the students nor the teacher are ready'?
Answer: Neither the students nor the teacher is ready.
With 'neither/nor,' the verb agrees with the subject closest to it; 'teacher' is singular, so use 'is.'
Which sentence avoids wordiness?
Answer: Because it was raining, we stayed inside.
'Because' is a concise substitute for the wordy phrase 'due to the fact that.'
A paragraph's topic sentence should:
Answer: State the main idea of the paragraph
The topic sentence introduces and controls the central idea of the paragraph.
Which punctuation correctly ends an indirect question?
Answer: .
Indirect questions are statements reporting a question and end with a period, not a question mark.
Which revision eliminates the redundancy: 'The unexpected surprise caught everyone off guard'?
Answer: The surprise caught everyone off guard.
'Surprise' already implies something unexpected, so 'unexpected' is redundant.
Which choice best describes parallel structure in writing?
Answer: Using the same grammatical form for items in a list or series
Parallel structure requires that coordinated elements share the same grammatical form (e.g., all nouns or all gerunds).