Writing Skills Part 1

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- WRITING SKILLS PART 1 When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers, click Submit Exam. Answers will not be recorded until you hit Submit Exam. If you need to exit before completing the exam, click Cancel Exam. Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer. 1. Which of the following is correct in regard to the use of formal English? A. Contractions are considered acceptable in any document. B. In formal business correspondence, it's best keep the language impersonal. C. Formal English is used more frequently in speaking than in writing. D. In formal English, we use words to say precisely what we mean. 2. Which of the following is a complex sentence? A. As Jake was reading the letter from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention. B. I simply cannot make heads or tails of rap lyrics, but I suppose I'm just too old to understand them. C. I would like to visit the Kinshasa, but I understand the city is unsafe for foreigners. D. Check out the editorial page in today's paper and you'll notice the piece by Oscar Lewis. 3. Choose the connective that belongs in the blank in the following sentence. Everyone appeared to be having a good time. _______, my impressions may have been wrong. A. Of course B. In fact C. In other words D. Furthermore 4. What is the complete predicate of the sentence below? Looking up from his computer monitor, Jason mopped his brow, exhaled sharply, and picked up his phone. A. mopped his brow B. mopped his brow, exhaled sharply, and picked up his phone. C. picked up the phone D. Looking up from his computer monitor, —— mopped his brow, exhaled sharply, and picked up his phone. 5. Choose the connective that

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