PBT STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
GRAMMAR REVIEW 3: "Underlined" Section

 

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PARALLEL STRUCTURE

 

1. Having weekly family talks can be an important means of exploring sensitive family issues, redefining sibling relationships, and to foster new familial bonds.

2. Three goals of the Sierra Club are to encourage environmental conservation, lobbying for environmental issues in Washington, D.C., and develop youth awareness of environmental concerns.

3. Acumen that was political, knowledge of Congress, and the Southern vote were qualities that Lyndon Johnson brought to the national ticket in 1960.

4. Because of their size, dachshunds are less expensive to feed, more easy to train, and more congenial than Great Danes.

5. Electronic bulletin boards are important in the process of reviewing product performance which evaluates how a product operates and recommend whether one should buy it.

6. Certain changes in the method of mailing packeted seeds including packaged, assembling, and mailing have obviated the necessity for rehandling by authorities.

7. There is no doubt that a herd of elephants show much more intelligence in their ordinary life than any of the other gregarious vegetable feeders, such as deer, for, though these follow a leader, post sentinels, and detected every unusual sign or sound, they never combine to attain some end as elephants do.

8. Production of chlorine without the attendant sodium hydroxide is attained by the electrolysis of fused chlorides such as lithium or magnesium and several different chemical processes such as the reaction of sodium chloride and nitric acid.

9. Chopin, in the "Ballade in A flat," while not confining himself to a superficial imitation, contriving to suggest in each stanza the chimes of that which preceded, and sums up the whole in a tremendous peroration.

10. The decrease in game can be easily attributed to the recklessness of early colonists who could be found selecting haunches of venison and leaving the rest of the carcass to their dogs, giving wild geese to their dogs as well, and burning canebreaks thereby they destroyed the habitat of many game animals and birds.

Answers: D, B, A, C, D, C, D, C, B, D

 

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WORD FORM

 

1. There has been an alarming increase in the incidental of babies born addicted to cocaine.

2. Lincoln's ability to hold the Union together and waging war successfully amazes historians even today.

3. Evaluation potential Supreme Court justices is one of the most important prerogatives of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

4. Hartwell, Georgia is well-known for the manufacturer of trampolines and of other critical trampoline components.

5. Dependent on monetary aid from foreign countries often cripples the economies of developing countries.

6. Light electrical stimulate of certain lobes of the brain has been known to affect great mood swings in the behavior of the recipients.

7. Highly solute in alcohol, ether, and hydrocarbons, butyl acetate has a freezing point of -75 C. and a refractive index of 1.3951.

8. In rivers like the Colorado, with highly banks and a changeable water level, beavers make a tunnel well under water, and this leads to a large burrow in the bank.

9. The eradication of tuberculosis from animal herds in the U.S. was once thought completely, but now forms of the disease have been diagnosed in such animals as buffalo.

10. It is of general as well as scientific interest to ascertain to what extent mental activity compares with muscular activity with respect to the bodily transformational of matter and energy attendant upon it.

Answers: C, C, A, B, A, B, A, B, C, C

 

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PREPOSITIONS

 

1. The dependence of killer whale offspring in their mothers can be seen by the fact that they remain together for life.

2. It is interesting that some the most intriguing languages in the world have originated in central Africa.

3. The martial art of aikido is based from the principle of using the force of the opponent to the practitioner’s advantage.

4. In the southwestern part of the United States, most of the water comes of the Colorado River and the manmade lakes created from it.

5. Temperatures along the Egyptian Sinai peninsula have been known to reach as high as 55 degrees Celsius inside the summer.

6. The virgin forests of Vietnam are home to some the most unusual animal species that can be found anywhere.

7. Young oak pruner larva, after hatching of the egg, first mine in the inner bark, then enter the wood and girdle the twig or branch by boring around it several times in the same place.

8. The water required to form soil fluid ranges with the texture of the solid body from 10% for sand in 40% for fine clay.

9. No class of imported products subject for inspection under the provisions of the food and drug act has shown more marked improvement than the crude drugs.

10. Bach's compositions are the outgrowths of his purely ideal way looking at the world and of his deeply religious feelings.

Answers: B, B, B, C, D, C, A, D, B, B

 

 

 

ADJECTIVES

 

1. Computer email is replacing the postal service as the reliablest mode of document transfer.

2. The higher infant mortality rate in the world can be found in the nation of Burkina Faso.

3. In responding to telephone surveys with detailed answers, consumers are unawares that they may be placed on telephone and email marketing lists.

4. A colostomy bag, normally used in cases of colon failure, has also found utility for those suffer from extreme blockage of the urethra.

5. It can be easily understood that peace negotiations involving religious factors are more difficulter to resolve than those which are purely political.

6. Through intensive efforts to make its hiring policies more equitably, the Coca-Cola Company has set the standard for other beverage companies.

7. The land tortoise differs from the sea tortoise in having its tail rounded, not flattened, and in not having webbing toes.

8. To the grower and shipper, precooling fruit is important as a means of extending the marketed area of the product.

9. Progesterone, the femaled sex hormone, is secreted in the body by the corpus luteum, the adrenal cortex, or by the placenta during pregnancy.

10. Ideal purity of thought, simplicity of means, simplicity and wise orchestration, all contribute to the freshness and ingenuousness of Haydn's cantatas.

Answers: C, A, C, C, C, C, D, D, A, B

 

VERB TENSE AND FORM

 


1. The canine collie family is often separate into several branches including border collies and Australian collies.

2. George Washington, the nation's first President, caught a cold while riding, is bled profusely, and died shortly thereafter.

3. Producing two presidents, various cabinet heads, and numerous judges, the Adams family has been the preeminent political family of 19th century America.

4. Because genetic researchers already will find the blueprint of the human genome, many scientists believe that cures to most of the major diseases will soon be found.

5. Malaria, once thought to be completely eradicated, remained today a source of sickness through the developing world.

6. Amelia Earhart, famed for her ill-fated attempt to be the first woman to fly around the world, establishes many intercontinental flight records during her lifetime.

7. The opening of the seventeenth century saw a revolution in music such as has never since been paralleling.

8. Related to the manatee, the dugong eats seaweed, but its back teeth are few and soon fallen out.

9. The old system of paying road taxes in labor has proved inefficient and is been rapidly discarded for the better plan of requiring all road taxes to be paid in cash.

10. The first agricultural universities in the United States are established according to a special act of Congress passed on July 2, 1862.

Answers: B, C, D, B, C, D, D, D, C, A

 

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ARTICLES

 

1. A newest computer programs contain graphics which once could only be imagined.

2. Reputed to be the loveliest woman of her time, Helen of Troy's actual existence is the matter of historical dispute.

3. Most of the South’s victories occurred between years of 1860 and 1863, at the outset of the Civil War.

4. Mozart, whose life spanned less than half century, composed a copious amount of musical works ranging from simple sonatas to highly complex symphonies and operas.

5. Relatively little is known about his background and life of the famous Persian Emperor, Xerxes I.

6. Although the water is critical to the growth of plants, the amount of water actually delivered to root systems is almost as important.

7. The armature of ordinary tortoise, like the Greek tortoise, is intricately shaped and formed.

8. When the Portuguese landed on St. Helena in the beginning of a fifteenth century, they took with them many goats.

9. In 1834, Wagner secured the post of musical director at the Magdeburg Stadttheater, and at once embarked upon a composition of a second opera, 'Das Liebesverbot.'

10. The sum of an atomic weights of the atoms in a molecule is called its molecular weight.

Answers: A, C, B, B, B, A, B, D, C, B

USAGE

 

1. Earlier or later, a less painful method for medicine delivery than the needle will be devised.

2. Bell's palsy is a paralytic condition that usually occurs in one side of the face but not another.

3. Making homework assigned by a professor is one of the best ways that a student has of mastering material covered in class.

4. Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale redefined the nature of the relationship between President and Vice-President by having Mondale perform duties formally done by only the President.

5. Following the conquests of Marcus Aurelius and Augustus Caesar, Roman ideas about culture and law were spread throughout almost of the European and Mediterranean world.

6. Alike her father, Elizabeth I displayed an understanding of what the people wanted and how to give it to them.

7. From time to time, conditions disclosed by inspection or questions raised in the administration of law render it necessary to let special studies of certain classes of food or drugs.

8. Quail have been reduced most to the vanishing point in the Northern states ranging from New York to New Hampshire.

9. Silicone is the group name for semi-organic polymers made up of a skeleton structure of alternate silicon and oxygen atons with variety organic groups attached to the silicon.

10. Continental islands are done by the tops of submarine volcanoes, or by the peaks of a slowly rising mountain chain, or by coral growths on the shoulders of either of those.

Answers: A, D, A, D, D, A, D, B, C, A

 

NUMBER

 

1. The gravitational interplay in the atmosphere of Jupiter is intriguing because of the presence of so many moon.

2. Whether eating plant is morally unacceptable is an issue raised by only the most extreme of philosophers.

3. Unlike those who are lactose intolerant, others are able to subsist almost entirely on a diet that is based on milks.

4. Ecology, the branch of science that deals with the connection between living organism and their environment, has evolved into a required course at many universities.

5. The ability of economists to explain such simple phenomenon as fluctuations in the stock market remains questionable.

6. Displaying no aptitudes for language or mathematics at an early age, Einstein confounded academia by producing the General Theory of Relativity.

7. In year of severity such as 1992, the cost of fighting the tobacco flea beetle has ranged from twenty to thirty dollars per acre.

8. With its chisel edged front teeth the beaver cuts two parallel furrows across the grain of the wood, and then wrenches off the part between in a succession of chip.

9. Experiments clearly prove that nesting birds can find their way homes from a distance of 800 miles or more across seas or along coasts unknown to them.

10. A group of compound with the empirical formula of CnH2n+2, paraffins vary from colorless gases to water-white liquids.

Answers: D, A, D, B, B, B, A, D, C, A

 

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CONNECTOR

 

1. Some native grasses of California are too drought resistant that they never need watering.

2. Thomas Jefferson was a magnificent writer as well a noted scholar in the area of languages.

3. By geological dating of rocks, scientists have determined that neither the Rocky Mountains stretching from Canada to Mexico or the Sierra Nevada Mountains of the Pacific Coast is the continent’s oldest mountain chain.

4. Some lizard societies of Sonoran Mexico are too matriarchal in nature that no males whatsoever reside in their communities.

5. Hiermonious Bosch produced some of the most creative paintings of the Renaissance as well some of the most unusual.

6. Movie critics agree that Ridley Scotts’ movies contain either an original vision of the future and a disquieting perspective about the past.

7. Continental islands are made by the tops of submarine volcanoes, or by the peaks of a slowly rising mountain chain, or by coral growths on the shoulders of both of these.

8. Female cockroaches are about three times more numerous as male cockroaches and have rudimentary wings.

9. Practically as same as those obtained from eating meat, fat and protein consumption statistics from eating cheese show that cheese is a viable substitute when eaten in moderation.

10. Such healthy is oat bran that nutitionists recommend one serving a day is sufficient to lower cholesterol.

Answers: B, B, C, B, C, B, D, B, A, A

 

 

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

 

1. Colonial woman, espcially those in the northern colonies, were expected to fill a wide array of responsibilities.

2. Few beetles are as specialized as elephant dung beetles which feed exclusively on fecal matter it obtains from elephants.

3. The difference in Asian and European retailing methods have led to economic seminars which help importers and exporters to understand how to deliver their goods.

4. The Masters Golf Tournament, one of four tournaments which make up golf’s Grand Slam, are held each spring in Augusta, Georgia.

5. That there exist much oil under the ocean off the Pacific coast of California has been known by petroleum companies for over half a century.

6. The Tri-Nations Cup, which brings together the finest rugby teams from southern Pacific nations, have traditionally been won by the famous All-Blacks Team from New Zealand.

7. The results that have been secured with broom corn stalks indicate that this material are suitable for immediate use in paper making, both on the basis of quality of fiber produced and on yield of fiber secured.

8. The soundness in general of the bluebirds' instincts are vindicated by the fact that various natural catastrophes do not permanently diminish the bird population.

9. For many years, large importations of grafted persimmon trees from Japan was made by commercial nurseries.

10. Who, since Mozart and Beethoven, have created piano concertos in which the solo instrument and the orchestra are in just relationship?

Answers: A, D, B, C, A, C, C, B, D, B

 

 
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PRONOUNS

 

1. Bill Clinton, that won the 1992 presidential election, was formerly governor of the state of Arkansas.

2. James Buchanan, who was elected President in 1856, did little to calm the war fever that swept the country during its term of office.

3. The technique of DNA fingerprinting is becoming more well known to those detectives who specialty is homicide.

4. Casablanca is essentially a cinematic story about an expatriot American whom decides that he is living in neither the time nor the place for moral ambiguity.

5. From a psychological perspective, those people who expect that the worse will happen to him are seldom disappointed.

6. Making tunnels as they go through any woody product including trees, paper, and furniture, the termite eats voraciously.

7. They have been noted by many travelers to India that when figs ripen in the groves around temples, monkeys come forth in troops to feast upon them.

8. The hen has kept pace with her breed and environment and invariably gives the owner more than they receive.

9. The American Revolution established the independence of the colonies in whose the fire of freedom had burned brightly for their citizens.

10. Yolo County, located in the central valley of California, has as it's capital, Woodland, a city of 75,000 inhabitants.

Answers: A, D, D, B, D, B, A, D, B, C

 

 

REPEATED SUBJECT

 

1. Berbers of the western Sahara they are distinguishable by their unique language and customs.

2. CNN, based in the southern state of Georgia, it was the first all-news television network to begin international broadcasting.

3. Improved alfalfas are mostly needed in the colder states, where great hardiness is essential, and in the eastern states, where strains they will produce seed under humid conditions are desired.

4. The Bureau of Biological Survey, a little known and completely misunderstood arm of the Department of Agriculture, it has continued its investigations of the economic relations of wild birds and mammals with special effort to render its work of practical importance to the stock grower.

Answers: B, B, C, C

 

 

 

WORD ORDER

 

1. Patients suffering from Alzheimers disease often do not know who are they.

2. When Lance Armstrong won his second Tour de France bicycling victory, he brought his young son with him to the podium to receive the trophy championship.

Answers: D, B

 

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GERUND/INFINITIVE

 

1. A pocket calculator is useful for to compute difficult mathematical functions in algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and calculus.

Answer: B

 

 

ADVERB

 

1. Translators at the United Nations are usual hired if they can translate a speaker’s words accurately and quickly.

Answer: A

 

 

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