English Language Skills - FTCE

This is a simple case of standardized spelling knowledge. The correct spelling of “prejudice,” which means an opinion about something held without good reason or actual experience.

Dangling modifier errors are extremely common, all the way to (and past) high school graduation. If a sentence begins with a dependent introductory clause, the subject of that clause must be the same as the subject of the main clause that follows, otherwise the modifier will modify a word that is not clearly present in the sentence, thus "dangling."

For example: "Having finished the repairs, the car drove out of Jim's Autobody Shop."

Comparative adjectives are used when two objects are being directly compared. "The sun is brighter than the moon," is an example of a comparative adjective. Superlative adjectives are used to distinguish one item from many. "Of all the bodies in our galaxy, the sun is the brightest."

Comparative and superlative adjective forms can be used to describe any noun in terms of any quality.

Note here that some proper nouns can be replaced with pronouns that are not associated with a person, think of towns of countries, for instance. Personal pronouns only refer to people.

In order to avoid a dangling modifier, “they” must refer to the subject of the introductory clause, Kevin and Charles.

This is a very basic question interrogating the test-taker's knowledge of the rules of capitalization. While the rules of capitalization (not to mention spelling and punctuation) remained unstandardized for the vast majority of the history of the English language, at this point the rules are mostly set. Proper nouns (names, whether of people or things) always require capitalization, as do the words beginning any sentence.

"Suface" is not a word in English, this is a simple misspelling of the word "surface." All other words are correctly spelled.

The word to describe a triangle with sides of equal length is spelled "scalene."

This is a simple case of standardized spelling knowledge. The correct spelling of “prejudice,” which means an opinion about something held without good reason or actual experience.

Dangling modifier errors are extremely common, all the way to (and past) high school graduation. If a sentence begins with a dependent introductory clause, the subject of that clause must be the same as the subject of the main clause that follows, otherwise the modifier will modify a word that is not clearly present in the sentence, thus "dangling."

For example: "Having finished the repairs, the car drove out of Jim's Autobody Shop."

Comparative adjectives are used when two objects are being directly compared. "The sun is brighter than the moon," is an example of a comparative adjective. Superlative adjectives are used to distinguish one item from many. "Of all the bodies in our galaxy, the sun is the brightest."

Comparative and superlative adjective forms can be used to describe any noun in terms of any quality.

Note here that some proper nouns can be replaced with pronouns that are not associated with a person, think of towns of countries, for instance. Personal pronouns only refer to people.

In order to avoid a dangling modifier, “they” must refer to the subject of the introductory clause, Kevin and Charles.

This is a very basic question interrogating the test-taker's knowledge of the rules of capitalization. While the rules of capitalization (not to mention spelling and punctuation) remained unstandardized for the vast majority of the history of the English language, at this point the rules are mostly set. Proper nouns (names, whether of people or things) always require capitalization, as do the words beginning any sentence.

"Suface" is not a word in English, this is a simple misspelling of the word "surface." All other words are correctly spelled.

The word to describe a triangle with sides of equal length is spelled "scalene."

Dangling modifier errors are extremely common, all the way to (and past) high school graduation. If a sentence begins with a dependent introductory clause, the subject of that clause must be the same as the subject of the main clause that follows, otherwise the modifier will modify a word that is not clearly present in the sentence, thus "dangling."

For example: "Having finished the repairs, the car drove out of Jim's Autobody Shop."

This is a simple case of standardized spelling knowledge. The correct spelling of “prejudice,” which means an opinion about something held without good reason or actual experience.

Comparative adjectives are used when two objects are being directly compared. "The sun is brighter than the moon," is an example of a comparative adjective. Superlative adjectives are used to distinguish one item from many. "Of all the bodies in our galaxy, the sun is the brightest."

Comparative and superlative adjective forms can be used to describe any noun in terms of any quality.

Note here that some proper nouns can be replaced with pronouns that are not associated with a person, think of towns of countries, for instance. Personal pronouns only refer to people.