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Verb Tense: tells you when an action is taking place ✔ Unsatisfied with the ending, the director considering reshooting the entire film. Subject-Verb Agreement: one subject needs one verb/a plural subject needs a plural verb and they agree in person. ✔ Although nutritionists have criticized pizza for being too high in fat, there is many people who continue to enjoy it. Pronouns: agree with the antecedent (a noun that corresponds to the pronoun in the sentence) ✔ A student who applies for a part-time job assisting Alex from Target may get more than they bargained for. To expand the newspaper's coverage on politics, they transferred a popular columnist to the City desk. Idioms: word combinations that sound right/go together Words that can trick you: by, at, among, before ✔ Many people are desensitized to violence on TV shows, but this does not mean that they are not sensitive of the real-life violence around them. Comparison: parts of speech i.e. nouns and verbs all have the same form ✔ Even though he is a Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel's name is still less well known than last year's Heisman Trophy winner. Adjectives: modify a noun or pronoun Adverbs: modify a verb, adverb -ly ✔ Since the onset of his blindness the artist has sculpted more slow than before. Double Negative: two negatives cannot be used in the same sentence because they cancel each other out to form a positive ✔ The town hasn't hardly any money in its budget because of the unexpected snowplow costs. Sounds like: The town HAS money in its budget because of the unexpected snowplow cost. Completing Sentences: require a main subject and main verb ✔ Last of the world's leaders to do so, the prime minister admits that terrorist credible enough to warrant the imposition of stringent security measures.
Run-On Sentence: two complete sentences joined together when they should be separated using a period, coma, semicolon ✔ Harry Elephante was born in East Harlem, New York, the developer of the polio vaccine. Dependent/Subordinate Clause: is linked to an independent clause using a conjunction such as because, although, since to express a complete thought ✔ New restaurants appeared on the waterfront, however merchants were finally able to convince diners of the area's safety. preposition ✔ a word that indicates direction or position or connects two ideas (on, off, above, to, of, from, at) article ✔ a word that comes before a noun that indicates whether the noun is specific or non specific a, an, the, this conjunction ✔ a word that joins two words or phrases (for, and, but, or) common noun ✔ general thing..girl, boy, country proper noun ✔ Alice, Canada subject of a sentence ✔ who the sentence is about, the subject performs the verb object of a sentence ✔ not the subject and has the verb performed on it concrete noun ✔ physical object abstract noun ✔ not physical: examples - ideas, creativity, sadness antecedent ✔ the noun that a pronoun stands for predicate ✔ gives information about the subject in a sentence dependent clause
Find the error: For a writer, the rarest privilege is not merely to describe her country and time but to help shape it. a) rarest b) is not merely c) to describe d) it e) no error ✔ d) it The pronoun "it" is incorrectly used to refer to two nouns, "country" and "time." The pronoun required here is the plural "them." Find the error: The school magazine will print those who win prizes for poetry, short stories, and drama; nonfiction, however, will not be accepted for publication. a) those who win b) ; c) will not d) be accepted for e) no error ✔ a) those who win In the phrase "those who win," the pronoun "those" indicates the people who win prizes. But the magazine will not print the people who win; it will print what the winners have written, or the submission of those who win prizes. The error in this question is the illogical use of a pronoun. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out passionately for the poor of all races. "spoke out passionately" should be replaced with: a) spoke out passionate b) did spoke out passionately c) has spoke out passionately d) had spoken out passionate e) correct as is ✔ e) correct as is As a consumer, one can accept the goods offered to us or we can reject them, but we cannot determine their quality or change the system's priorities.
"As a consumer, one can accept" should be replaced with: a) We the consumer either can accept b) The consumer can accept c) Either the consumer accepts d) As consumers, we can accept e) correct as is ✔ d) As consumers, we can accept The problem in this sentence concerns parallelism and agreement in pronoun number. The underlined portion of the sentence uses the singular pronoun, "one," which correctly agrees with its antecedent, "consumer." However, in the portion of the sentence that is not underlined, the first person plural, "we," is used as a subject in the second part of the sentence. To create a sentence free of agreement faults, you must look for a choice that contains both "we" and the plural of "consumer." The last choice, "As consumers, we can accept" is the only one that corrects the agreement problem and has a phrase parallel to "we can reject them," and is thus the correct answer. Which sentence is correct? a) The agent, passing through the crowd without being noticed by hardly anyone. b) The agent passed through the crowd without hardly being noticed by hardly anyone. c) The agent's passing through the crowd was not hardly noticed by anyone. d) No one hardly noticed how the agent passed through the crowd. e) The agent was hardly noticed as she passed through the crowd. ✔ e) The agent was hardly noticed as she passed through the crowd. The first choice presents two major problems: it is not a complete sentence, and the phrase "without ... hardly" is not idiomatic. Although the second, third, and fourth choices are complete sentences, each uses "hardly" in an equally unidiomatic construction. The fifth choice, the best answer, is an idiomatic and complete sentence. Which is the main purpose of reviewing the references in a research article when one writes an academic paper? a) To check that the authors did their own research b) To identify additional relevant sources c) To learn how to write citations correctly d) To verify that the authors did not cite themselves. e) To avoid reading other sources on the same topic. ✔ b) To identify additional relevant sources Sample Argumentative Essay Topic ✔ Read the opinion stated below:
-is generally free from errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics ✔ score of 6 on an argumentative essay Sample source-based essay topic ✔ See https://www.ets.org/s/praxis/pdf/5722.pdf pages 37 & 38 for example. Use this example to write a source-based essay for practice. Smart tips for taking the test ✔ See https://www.ets.org/s/praxis/pdf/5722.pdf pages 48 & 49 for smart tips regarding the writing section of the Praxis CORE
