Writing Skills 1

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1. Which one of the following sentences contains two ideas joined by a connecting word? A. Frank went fishing on Saturday he caught many fish. B. Mike ran after the bus. C. Tina arrived at work earlier than usual. D. Sally lives with her parents, although she could afford her own apartment. 2. Which of the following is a complex sentence? A. I simply cannot make heads or tails of rap lyrics, but I suppose I'm just too old to understand them. B. Check out the editorial page in today's paper and you'll notice the piece by Oscar Lewis. C. As Jake was reading the letter from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention. D. I would like to visit the Kinshasa, but I understand the city is unsafe for foreigners. 3. Choose the connective that belongs in the blank. She left the party early. Next she went to a movie. _______ she went home. A. Next B. First C. Meanwhile D. Finally 4. What is the name of the common error in the following sentence? Having risen because of the rains, the hikers were unable to cross the river. A. Run-on sentence B. Dangling modifier C. Infinitive phrase D. Prepositional phrase 5. Which of the following groups of words is a sentence fragment? A. When we stopped by the garden. B. We stopped; she didn't. C. Stop by the garden. D. Stopping by the garden, we saw that the flowers were in bloom. 6. Which of the following statements about connecting paragraphs is correct? A. You can't state an idea in paragraph 2 that's related to an idea in paragraph 1. B. You can use a pointing word that that refers to a word in the previous paragraph. C. Two paragraphs may be joined by an action verb. D. A good connection between two paragraphs is an implied transition. 7. Which of the following sentences has a dangling modifier? A. On the way to the bank, the interest rates went

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