TSI Sentence Revision and Editing 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which revision corrects the run-on: "The meeting ran late everyone was exhausted"?
- The meeting ran late everyone, was exhausted.
- The meeting ran late, so everyone was exhausted. (Correct answer)
- The meeting ran late everyone was, exhausted.
- The meeting, ran late everyone was exhausted.
Correct answer: The meeting ran late, so everyone was exhausted.
A comma plus the conjunction "so" properly joins two independent clauses.
Question 2: Select the correct verb tense: "By the time we arrived, the show ____ already begun."
- has
- have
- had (Correct answer)
- having
Correct answer: had
The past perfect "had begun" shows an action completed before another past action.
Question 3: Which sentence correctly uses an apostrophe?
- The dog wagged it's tail happily.
- The dog wagged its tail happily. (Correct answer)
- The dogs' wagged its tail happily.
- The dog's wagged it's tail happily.
Correct answer: The dog wagged its tail happily.
"Its" is the possessive form; "it's" means "it is."
Question 4: Choose the best revision to eliminate redundancy: "He returned back to the office at 9 a.m. in the morning."
- He returned back to the office at 9 a.m.
- He returned to the office at 9 a.m. (Correct answer)
- He returned back to the office in the morning.
- He returned to the office at 9 a.m. in the morning.
Correct answer: He returned to the office at 9 a.m.
"Returned" already implies "back," and "9 a.m." already means morning.
Question 5: Which sentence places the modifier "only" correctly to mean she ate just the salad?
- She only ate the salad.
- Only she ate the salad.
- She ate only the salad. (Correct answer)
- She ate the salad only her.
Correct answer: She ate only the salad.
Placing "only" before "the salad" limits what she ate.
Question 6: Select the sentence with correct capitalization.
- We visited the Pacific ocean last Summer.
- We visited the Pacific Ocean last summer. (Correct answer)
- We visited the pacific Ocean last Summer.
- We visited the pacific ocean last summer.
Correct answer: We visited the Pacific Ocean last summer.
Proper nouns like "Pacific Ocean" are capitalized, but seasons are not.
Question 7: Which transition best fits: "The recipe looked simple; ____, it took three hours to make"?
- therefore
- however (Correct answer)
- moreover
- for example
Correct answer: however
"However" signals the contrast between looking simple and taking long.
TSI Sentence Revision and Editing 3
Which revision corrects the run-on: "The meeting ran late everyone was exhausted"?