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Example Question #1 : Adjectives Describing Quality, Quantity, And Variety
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Diverse
No mistakes
Conspicuous
Excessive
Deficent
Deficent
This question tested your ability to spot an often easy to overlook error, a missing "i" verb. The reason this is easy to miss is purely visual, in the middle of a visually complex word like "deficient" it is almost natural to overlook a missing letter. It is important, when proofreading or having your spelling tested, to give words an extra look, to make sure that your eye hasn't naturally filled in a missing letter.
The rest of these adjectives are all spelled correctly.
Example Question #1 : Adverbs
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Urgently
Wryly
Instantaneously
No mistakes
Zelously
Zelously
The correct spelling for the word "zealously" has an "a" after the "e." You could have known this by simply knowing the correct spelling, or realizing that this adverb would be based on the word "zeal," which includes an "a" after the "e." The rest of the options were correctly spelled adverbs.
Example Question #1 : Spelling
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Promotion
Explanation
Comotion
No mistakes
Demotion
Comotion
The only word that is misspelled is "comotion," which is missing an "m." "Commotion" is the correct spelling. All the other given options are spelled correctly.
Example Question #2 : Spelling
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Chicanery
No mistakes
Solemnity
Amity
Calamitty
Calamitty
"Calamity," when spelled correctly, uses only one "t" preceding the "y." All the other options are correctly spelled.
Example Question #3 : Spelling
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Diciple
Pundit
No mistakes
Virtuoso
Goon
Diciple
The given options are all words used to describe different kinds of people (making them all, obviously, nouns). "Disciple," however, needs to have an "s" preceding the "c."
Example Question #4 : Spelling
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
No mistakes
Appease
Vex
Brood
Impress
No mistakes
The given words are all verbs describing emotional changes or states. All of them are spelled correctly.
Example Question #5 : Spelling
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
No mistakes
Drench
Impede
Soak
Dry
No mistakes
The given options are all verbs pertaining to the act of changing something's physical state. They are all spelled correctly, so the only correct answer is "no mistakes."
Example Question #1 : Identifying Adjective And Adverb Errors
Select from the given options the one that includes a usage error. If all of the options are correct, select "no mistakes."
No mistakes
We had a terrible time at the football game. It was bitter cold.
The brain trauma issue deeply bothers me, especially when the players are not being paid.
I sincerely do not like football.
We had a terrible time at the football game. It was bitter cold.
The example sentence erroneously uses an adjective where an adverb is needed. "Bitter," in this context, modifies the verb "was," and therefore should be replaced by the adverb "bitterly." If the cold were being used as a noun, then the adjective form of "bitter" would be appropriate—for example, "We were wrapped in a bitter cold."
Example Question #1 : Usage
Select from the given options the one that includes a usage error. If all of the options are correct, select "no mistakes."
Listen, I'm reaching the limits of my patience.
No mistakes
I have no clear idea who I am speaking to.
Excuse me, could you say that again?
I have no clear idea who I am speaking to.
The correct choice features a very common error of pronoun case, which leads the sentence to incorrectly conclude with a preposition. Rather than using the subjective-case "who" in saying "who I am speaking to," it is correct to use the objective-case "whom." Sentences should never, in academic writing, end with a preposition.
Example Question #1 : Inconsistent Usage
Select from the given options the one that includes a usage error. If all of the options are correct, select "no mistakes."
It is very important to look both ways when one crosses the street because you never know when a car might come.
No mistakes
Kent was extremely sad; he had been thinking about cross the street an unhealthy amount
If you cross the street carelessly, you never know what might happen.
It is very important to look both ways when one crosses the street because you never know when a car might come.
The correct answer features inconsistent pronoun usage. Since the sentence first uses the pronoun "one," the sentence must remain consistent in its usage of that pronoun. It is incorrect to follow "one" (when used as a pronoun) with "you." The correct version of the sentence reads, "It is very important to look both ways when one crosses the street because one never knows when a car might come." This question interrogates the principle of consistent pronoun usage. None of the other options included any grammatical errors.
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