Writing Skills & Grammar Usage Flashcards
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Select the sentence that uses commas correctly.
Answer: The officer searched the vehicle, found the contraband, and placed the suspect under arrest.
Option A correctly uses the Oxford comma in a three-item series.
Which sentence correctly uses a semicolon?
Answer: The suspect was apprehended at 2200 hours; the stolen property was recovered at the scene.
Option A correctly joins two related independent clauses.
Choose the sentence with correct possessive form.
Answer: The department's policy on overtime has been updated.
One department's policy = singular possessive: department's.
Which correctly uses 'who' vs. 'whom'?
Answer: The suspect whom the officer arrested was identified by two witnesses.
'Whom' is correct as the object of 'arrested.'
Identify correct use of 'affect' vs. 'effect.'
Answer: The new training program will positively affect officer response times.
'Affect' is the verb meaning 'to influence.'
Which demonstrates correct active voice for a report?
Answer: I collected three shell casings from the parking lot.
Active voice clearly identifies WHO performed the action.