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Free Online TSI Writing Practice Test

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Select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. The first choice is the same as the original sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer. Children who aren't nurtured during infancy are more likely to develop attachment disorders, which can cause persisting and severely problems later in life.

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This choice uses the correct, plural form problems and uses adjectives to describe the problems. The original phrase is incorrect because severely is an adverb and not an adjective. The other choices are incorrect because problem instead of the grammatically correct problems is used.

Select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. The first choice is the same as the original sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer. While speed is a measure of how fast an object is moving, velocity measures how fast an object is moving and also indicates in what direction it is traveling.

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The original agrees with the singular, noun and the and indicates that velocity is used to indicate more than one value.

Select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. The first choice is the same as the original sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer: Many companies are now using social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to market there service and product.

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This choice uses the grammatically correct their instead of there. The to indicates the companies are using these sites for something, and services and products agree with each other because they are both plural.

Select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. The first choice is the same as the original sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer. An autoclave is a tool used mainly in hospitals to sterilizing surgical tools and hypodermic needles.

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This choice states that an autoclave is a tool used to sterilize. Beginning with to sterilizing and for sterilize, are not grammatically correct. The other choice indicates that the machine is used to sterilize a single tool and needle, which does not make sense in the context of the sentence.

Select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. The first choice is the same as the original sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer. The bizarre creatures known by electric eels are capable of emitting an incredible 600 volts of electricity.

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This choice is best because it is grammatically correct and identifies electric eels as the bizarre creatures being discussed in the sentence.

Select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. The first choice is the same as the original sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer: A key factor taken into account during city planning is where major services and amenities will be located.

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This choice makes sense and the singular a key factor and is agree with each other.

Select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. The first choice is the same as the original sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer: Jupiter with its numerous moons, and Great Red Spot, has been studied extensively by astronomers.

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This choice is the only choice that has correctly placed commas. The numerous moons and the Great Red Spot both refer to the planet Jupiter, which is maintained in this answer.

Select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. The first choice is the same as the original sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer. Many gardeners are now making their own backyard compost, which is not only cheap, but also helps to cut down on landfill waste.

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This answer is succinct, the comma is in the correct place, and it expresses the information is a clear way that is not awkward.

Select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. The first choice is the same as the original sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer: The growth of the security industry can be large attributable to the fact that people are less trusting of others than they once were.

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Select the best edit for the underlined part. These books, which was published in the late eighteenth century, are very valuable.

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Select the best edit for the underlined part. Working as a receptionist for my uncle’s business taught me to handle customer complaints, answering the telephone, and how to maintain a Rolodex.

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Select the best edit. In a large city, you may have massive traffic jams on your daily commute to work.

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Select the best edit. We could watch the stars sitting on the balcony

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Rewrite, beginning with: The drama club had to …

the next words should be:

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Select the sentence with correct punctuation and correct use of the word: however

The best choice will be:

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Select the best edit for the underlined part. If a person wants to succeed in school, they have to study.

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