SPaG Flashcards
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Which sentence contains a dangling participle?
Answer: Having finished the exam, the room fell silent.
The room cannot finish an exam; the participle 'Having finished' dangles because it doesn't logically attach to 'the room.'
What is the plural of 'criterion'?
Answer: criteria
'Criteria' is the correct plural of 'criterion,' following its Latin origin.
Which punctuation correctly completes: 'We visited three cities __ Paris, Rome, and Berlin.'?
Answer: Colon
A colon is used after a complete main clause to introduce a list of specific examples.
Which of the following sentences uses a subordinating conjunction?
Answer: I stayed home because it was raining.
'Because' is a subordinating conjunction that introduces a dependent clause explaining the reason.
Which word correctly fills the blank: 'I __ no idea what happened.'?
Answer: have
The first-person singular present tense of 'to have' is 'have,' making 'I have no idea' grammatically correct.
Which is the correct spelling?
Answer: independent
'Independent' ends in '-ent,' not '-ant'; it means not relying on others.
What rhetorical device is used in: 'The wind whispered through the trees'?
Answer: Personification
Personification gives the wind a human quality (whispering), treating it as if it can speak.