Test-Taking Strategies
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Practice Set 3: Identifying Sentence Errors
Read through the items and choose the order in which to attempt them. When you’re done, compare your decision making process to ours.
1.   
 The teachers  did not expect a complete victory, but they
A 
had  counted on   the university  granting at least some of
 B C 
 his or her  main requests.  No error 
 D E
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2.   
 Strewn around  his  playpen was  the  toddler’s  favorite toys,
A B C 
including a miniature car and  a set of  alphabet blocks.
 D 
 No error 
 E
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3.   
If you are going to Beijing in December, it is essential
 
 to dress  in layers,  as  the sudden changes of temperature
 A B 
 there  can  catch one off guard.  No error 
 C D E
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4.   
At the school assembly, one candidate for student council
 
made a speech  where   he  proposed  holding  a blood drive  in the fall. 
 A B C D 
 No error 
 E
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5.   
More  devotedly   as any  nun in the church, Mother Teresa worked
 A B 
 long hours  to restore the health of the patients  in her hospital. 
 C D 
 No error 
 E
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6.   
The typical American high school student has to  take out 
 A 
several loans  in order to  attend college because  in the last 
 B C 
thirty years  they have  grown extremely expensive.  No error 
 D E
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
7.   
The governor, as well as all fifty members  of his staff, 
 A 
 have been working  nonstop  on the  reelection  campaign.  No error. 
 B C D E
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
8.   
The student declared that he could  not scarcely  imagine
 A 
a better role model  for Sarah Lawrence students  than  Alice
 B C 
Walker,  herself  a Sarah Lawrence alumna.  No error 
 D E
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9.   
The month of July  has  so long  been associated  with vacations
 A B 
that  the very mention  of the month conjures up visions of
 C 
barbecues, fireworks, and  the beach.   No error 
 D E
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
10.   
The guest lecturer  strode up  to the podium, put down his
 A 
papers,  and without  introduction  began  to read  from it. 
 B C D 
 No error 
 E
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)


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