Sentence Practice · Homework

1. Complete the sentence with a finite verb.

The report, which draws on measurements collected over six winters, ______ (identify) a persistent change in rainfall.

2. Complete the modifier; the main finite verb is already present.

Researchers ______ (compare) the two archives found that several dates conflicted.

Question 3 · Easy

For decades after World War II, the women who had worked for the US military as wartime codebreakers ______ their vital efforts a secret.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

1. to keep
2. having kept
3. keeping
4. kept

4. Insert the comma at the end of the introductory dependent clause.

Although the records that survived the fire contain several detailed descriptions the historian cannot identify the workshop with confidence.

Question 5 · Easy

While one requires oxygen and one does ______ and anaerobic respiration are both forms of cellular respiration—that is, they are processes by which cells break down glucose to use as energy.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

1. not aerobic
2. not. Aerobic
3. not, aerobic
4. not; aerobic

6. Remove the punctuation that incorrectly splits the main core.

The measurements from the instruments installed on the roof, reveal a consistent temperature difference.

Question 7 · Easy

In her book The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, author Maxine Hong Kingston examines themes ______ childhood, womanhood, and Chinese American identity by intertwining autobiography and mythology.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

1. of:
2. of
3. of—
4. of,

8. Repair the comma splice with a semicolon; keep all words.

The archive preserves the expedition’s field notes, the published report omits several of their observations.

Question 9 · Moderate

That the expansionist appetites of colonial European powers had their sights set on his country was evident to Siam’s King ______ deterring those ambitions through international diplomacy and domestic reform was perhaps his foremost achievement. Though his reign ended roughly twenty years before Siam became known by its modern name of Thailand, King Chulalongkorn is often credited with ushering the nation into modernity.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

1. Chulalongkorn;
2. Chulalongkorn that
3. Chulalongkorn,
4. Chulalongkorn