PELLET B Sentence Clarity 3

Question 1

Which sentence is written most clearly for a police report?

Accepted Answer

I observed the suspect place a bottle of liquor inside his jacket and exit the store without paying.

Answer

Option A uses clear first-person active voice with events in chronological order.

Question 2

Select the best way to combine: 'The driver refused the breathalyzer test. The officer placed the driver under arrest.'

Accepted Answer

After the driver refused the breathalyzer test, the officer placed the driver under arrest.

Answer

Option A correctly uses a subordinate clause preserving the cause-and-effect relationship.

Question 3

Which sentence correctly uses a pronoun reference?

Accepted Answer

When Officer Lopez spoke with the witness, the witness stated that she had seen the accident.

Answer

Option A avoids ambiguous pronoun reference by specifying 'the witness' instead of 'she.'

Question 4

Which revision eliminates the double negative: 'The witness could not hardly remember nothing about the suspect's appearance.'

Accepted Answer

The witness could hardly remember anything about the suspect's appearance.

Answer

Option A removes the double negatives and replaces them with standard English.

Question 5

Choose the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement.

Accepted Answer

The collection of evidence items was transported to the crime lab.

Answer

The subject is 'collection' (singular), not 'items,' so it requires the singular verb 'was.'

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