Test Part 1

Question 0

Run - on sentence

Answer 0

A RUN-ON SENTENCE (sometimes called a “fused sentence”) has at least two parts, either one of which can stand by itself (in other words, two independent clauses), but the two parts have been smooshed together instead of being properly connected.

Question 1

Fragment

Answer 1

A SENTENCE FRAGMENT fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself. It does not contain even one independent clause

Question 2

Faulty parallelism

Answer 2

Incorrect
The candidate’s goals include winning the election, a national health program, and the educational system.

Correct
The candidate’s goals include winning the election, enacting a national health program, and improving the educational system.

Incorrect
Some critics are not so much opposed to capital punishment as postponing it for so long.

Correct
Some critics are not so much opposed to capital punishment as they are to postponing it for so long.

Question 3

Passive and active voice

Answer 3

Ask yourself is the subject performing the action of the verb

Yes- active
No-passive