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Error Practice

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Error Practice

The document contains a list of sentences with grammatical errors, and each sentence is followed by four options labeled A, B, C, and D, indicating parts that may need correction. The task is to identify the incorrect part in each sentence to improve its grammatical structure. This exercise is designed to test and enhance understanding of English grammar.

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Directions : Select the underline part that must be change to be

correct.

1. General reference maps include basic information,


J
A B

such continents, countries, rivers, features.

C D

2. According to art consultant Maeve Bee, selects works of art

A B

for display is neither an easy task nor a glamorous occupation.

C D

3. If television had been invented a thousand years ago, will

A B C

nations be significantly more homogeneous than they are now?

4. The St. Lawrence Seaway, which runs between British Columbia


S
A

and New York, has completed by the United States and Canada

B C

in 1959.

D
5. To the citizens of the United States, the bald eagle, America’s

national bird, symbolize strength and freedom

B C D

6. Dolphins are warm-blooded; that is its body temperature

always stays about the same, regardless of the surroundings.

B c D

7. Authenticity stained glass is colored while the glass is in a liquid

A B C D

state.

8. On most scales, zero marks the starting point or the neutralize

A B C D

position.

9. The tongue of the okapi is too long that it can extend all the

A B C

way to its eyes when it cleans itself.

D
10. Individuals exposed to loud noise for long intervals may stuffer

A B

temporary or permanently loss of hearing.

C D

11. Film directors can take far great liberties in dealing with

A B

concepts of time and space than stage directors can.

C D

12. Traditionally, ethnographers and linguists have paid little

attention to cultural interpretation give to silence, or to the

B C

types of social in which tends to occur.


1
D inf
13. With the exception of aluminum, shiny metals such as tin or

A B

Copper turns into black powders when ground fine

C D
14. Since 1921 the budget of the United States became the primary

A B C

responsibility of the President.

15. The research of Percy Julian has contributed to the creation of

A B

drugs that are in widespread use over victims of arthritis.

C D

16. A number of doctors believe that taking an aspirin the day can

A B

reduce a person’s chances of having a heart attack.

C D

17. The speech of people from United States may be differentiated

A B

on the basis of regional dialects as such Midwestern or

C D

Southern.
18. The nineteenth-century historian Harriet Maxwell Converse

having been a tireless and effective lobbyist on behalf of

B C D

American Indians.

19. Alike other members of the cat family, the domestic cat has

A B

retractable claws and a very supple body.

C D

20. Although recent motor homes are more fuel-efficient than

previously models, they still cannot be considered economical.

B C D
S

21. The first fossilized dinosaur bones were discovery in the 1700’s.

A B C D

22. Styles and fads in music may come and gone, but the blues

A B

Always seem to endure.


-

C D
23. Hydrocarbons, too well as many other organic compounds,

A B C

frequently form polymers.

24. Research has indicated that nearest seventy percent of an

A B

individual’s communication with other is carried out on a

nonverbal level.

25. The grow of such international organizations as the United

A B C

Nations has changed the meaning of political neutrality.

26. The first libraries in the North American colonies was

A B

established in Massachusetts in the year 1638.

C D
27. When does a neutron from one atom collides with the nucleus

A B

of another atom, a chain reaction can occur.

C D

28. Alike other academic disciplines, sociology has several major

A B C D

subdisciplines.

29. An enormous variety of information many be obtained from

A B

a largest daily newspaper.

C D

30. Before the invention of the clock, people had to reliable on the

A B C

celestial bodies to tell time

31. How many people remember listening to Orson Welles’ 1938

A B

radio broadcast, The War of the Worlds, which convince


-

C D

thousands that space aliens had invaded the Earth?


32. Pewter, a metal with an ancient heritage, is still practical

A B C

medium for the nonprofessional metalworker.

33. According to cognitive theories of emotion, anger occurs when

individuals believe that they have been harmed and that the

B C

harm was either avoidable and undeserved.

34. Jackie McLean’s recordings have shown that he is one of the

few jazz musicians who style of playing has kept pace with the

A B C

evolution of modern jazz.

35. How Native American developed corn is a puzzling, for no wild

A B

corn has ever been discovered, and it grows only where people

C D

plant and tend it.


36. A principle of manager is to ensure that every action or

A B

decision achieves a carefully planned goal.

C D

37. A good exercise program helps teach people to avoid the habits

A B

that might shorten the lives.

C D

38. Classicism as a doctrine seeks what is universally truth and

A B C D

good.

39. Researchers at the University of Colorado are investigating a

A B

series of indicators that could help themselves to predict

C D

earthquakes.

40. Fungi are important in the process of decay, which returns

A B

ingredients to the soil enhances soil fertility, and decompose

C D

animal debris.
41. Land animals depend on lakes for drink water.

A B C D

42. Although days are now measured from midnight toward

A B C

midnight, this has not always been so.

43. Initial appearing with her own troupe of dancers in 1929,

A B

Martha Graham became an outstanding figure in modern

C D

dance.

44 The lowest point in the United States, 282 foot below sea level,

A B C

is found in Death Valley, California.

45. Wilson Bently, who spent many years studying snow, took

A B

more than five hundred pictures of snow crystals, but found

none two shapes alike.

D
46. In the nineteenth century, artists began to veer away from the

traditional concepts and techniques of painting that been

B C

practiced since the Renaissance.

47. The tulip tree, appreciated for its beauty, is also useful for to

A B C

make lumber.

48. The rate of interest can be definition as the gross rate of

A B

growth of capital in a contractual obligation.

C D

49. On the one hand, photovoltaic cells are relatively expensive;

on the contrary, they are completely nonpolluting.

B C D
50. No amphibian lays eggs that have shells, and therefore

amphibian eggs must to be deposited in a moist place.

B C D

51. During most of this century, A Philip Randolph struggled for

Black rights in the United States and becomes an important

B C

figure in the labor movement.

52. It has been calculated that the Earth’s circumference around

A B

the equator is over forty longer miles than the circumference

C D

around the two poles.

53. A fish must constantly to gulp water in order to keep a current

flowing through its delicate gills.

B C D
54. Maria Martinez, a Pueblo Indian, rediscovered the ancient art

of Pueblo black pottery and, by teaching the process to family

B C

and friends, develop a lucrative business.

55. Muscular motion is caused by the stimulate of specific never

A B C

cells in the brain and spinal cord.

56. A common use with gold in the nineteenth century was as a

A B

standard for the value of money.

C D

57. A liquid is similar to a gas because has molecules are not fixed
A B

to each other in any specific way.

C D
58. The Conestoga wagon, used for to carry heavy loads over long

A B

distances, originated around 1725 in a region of Pennsylvania

occupied by the Conestoga Indians.

59. Providence, Rhode Island, is a busy manufacturing city and

A B

seaport, as well the state capital.

C D

60. They young of most bird species are totally dependence on

A B

parental care after hatching.

C D

61. A large ring around the sun or the Moon has recognized by

A B C

many as a sign of rain.

D
62. Direct rail service began between New York City and Chicago

A B C

since 1852.

63. A gargoyle is a decorated waterspout projection from the

A B

above part of a building, usually from roof gutter.

C D

64. In American schools many a teacher begins the day by greeting

A B

the children, taking attendance, and salutes the flag.

C D

65. In a record dive in his bathysphere, William Beebe was the first

person to explore the ocean at a deep of 3,028 feet.

B C D

66. The myth, a traditional story representing a particular world

A B

view, is an ancient types of folklore.

C D
67. Without a reliable source of priced reasonably electricity, if

A B C

would be practically impossible to maintain a healthy economy.

68. Allegories be still written today, although modern authors

A B

generally prefer less abstract, more personal symbolism.

C D

69. Shells have served as currency in many lands and among many

A B C

differently peoples.

70. It would be hard to find a subject that someone has not already

A B C

drawn or tried to drawn.

71. The root of each hair extends down into a hair follicle and

widen into an indented bulb at the base.

B C D
72. Hundreds of wildlife refuges have been established throughout

A B

North America to provide animals with a safe place which live.

C D

73. The same other beans, limas are seeds that grown in pods.

A B C D

74. All English words of two or more syllables have least one

A B C

accented syllable.

75. It is thinked that the first urban park in the United States was

A B

the Boston Common, set aside in 1643 as community ground.

C D

76. There are three basic type of muscles in human being.

A B C D

77. To make iron, the metal must be separately from the

A B C

nonmetallic elements in the ore.

D
78. As a commercial venture, radio is about thirty years older than

A B C

television has.

79. A large company can have more flexibility in its employment

A B C

policies as a small firm.

80. Biologists studies the origins and functions of animal and plant

A B C D

life.

81. Positive reinforcement is essential for those students who are

unsure of their ability to learn; therefore, some teachers find it

B C D

hard to give other than negative comments.

82. Plato’s mistakes carry the mark of genius as plain as do those of

A B

his ideas that have survived centuries of criticism unscathed.

C D
83. If smaller amounts of pesticide would have been used by the

A B

farmers. The streams around Joplin would not now be so

polluted.

84. The economic situation of the aged, who experienced a

depression in the years when they were earning and now face

inflation in the years of their retirement, it is precarious.

C D

85. For a writer, the rarest privilege is not merely to describe his or

A B C

her country and time but to help shape it.

86. The purpose of the American Dental Association is to improve

A B

dental health and promotion the science and art of dentistry.

C D
87. Those Who have traditionally been the victims of discrimination
A

are not any longer powerless or ignored.

B C D

88. Modern travelers seem to prefer speed more than comfort.

A B C D

89. The fact that some mushrooms are perfectly safe for one

person but not for others probably accounts for differences of

B C

opinion as to which species are edible and which are not.

90. In the celery fields of Florida, the growers welcome

A B C

chameleons, which feed caterpillars and moths.

91. Putting small parcels in one bag is one of several way of

A B

carrying many things easily.

C D
92. Economics are the study of the relationship between unlimited

A B C

wants and limited resources.

93. Mosquitoes are one from the world’s deadliest insects,

A B

spreading yellow fever, malaria, and encephalitis.

C D

94. The Taoist ideal is a person who avoids conventional social

A B

obligation and leads a simple, spontaneous, and meditative life

closely to nature.

95. Gertrude Ederle was the first woman swimming the English

A B

Channel, a feat she accomplished in 1926.

C D

96. The feathers of birds help they fly and also keep them warm.

A B C D
97. Between 1820 and 1920, over thirty-eight million immigrants

A B

entered the United States from Ireland, Italy and many another

C D

countries.

98. Even though the average women possesses less physical

A B C

strength than the average man, she is believed to have greater

stamina.

99. The male narwhal have a spiral ivory tusk about eight feet long

A B

jutting out of the left side of its head.

C D

100. When glass fibers are embedded in plastic sheets, they formula

A B C

a very strong, light material.

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