IPC Grammar & Syntax 3

Question 1

Which sentence correctly uses an adjective clause to add non-essential information?

Accepted Answer

The candidate, who scored highest, received the award.

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The candidate who scored highest received the award.

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The candidate, that scored highest, received the award.

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The candidate which scored highest received the award.

Question 2

Which sentence correctly uses the past perfect tense?

Accepted Answer

By the time she arrived, the meeting had ended.

Answer

By the time she arrived, the meeting ended.

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By the time she arrived, the meeting has ended.

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By the time she arrived, the meeting was ending already.

Question 3

Which sentence demonstrates correct use of correlative conjunctions?

Accepted Answer

Both the manager and the director approved the plan.

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Either she will attend nor her assistant will.

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Neither he went to the meeting or he sent a delegate.

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Not only she studied but she passed the exam.

Question 4

In which sentence is the gerund used correctly as the object of a preposition?

Accepted Answer

She is interested in learning new languages.

Answer

She is interested in to learn new languages.

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She is interested in learned new languages.

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She is interested in learn new languages.

Question 5

Which sentence avoids a misplaced modifier?

Accepted Answer

Walking home from work, he found a wallet.

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She almost drove her children to school every day.

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He found a wallet walking home from work.

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The professor only teaches graduate students on Tuesdays.

Question 6

Which sentence uses reported (indirect) speech correctly?

Accepted Answer

She said that she would finish it the next day.

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She said that she will finish it tomorrow.

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She said that she will finished it tomorrow.

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She said that she finishes it tomorrow.

Question 7

Which sentence correctly uses a compound-complex structure?

Accepted Answer

Although she was tired, she finished the exam, and she submitted it on time.

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She was tired she finished the exam, and she submitted it.

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Although she was tired; she finished the exam, and submitted it.

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She was tired, although she finished the exam, submitted it.