#GRAMMAR 4.1-4.5 TEST REVIEW (due date: Thursday, May 25) - Brittany Dudzik | Library

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Grammar 4.1: Usage I (A Lot → A While) 
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Do not use the emergency exits, (accept, except) in case of fire.

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Blue-screen matting is a common special (effect, affect) in television and movies.

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Mr. Chen will be coming back to his office in (a while, awhile), if you’d like to wait.

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The track coach will not (accept, except) applications submitted after the first of the year.

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To the lake and back was (all the farther, as far as) we had to go.

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We waited at the restaurant (a while, awhile) before going out into the cold.

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Jules was working on (an, a) history paper when I called.

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Does committing too many fouls (effect, affect) the score?

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It (isn’t, ain’t) incorrect to omit the leading zero on some decimal numbers.

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It should take less than (an, a) hour to complete this test.

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I was (all together, altogether) astonished at the outcome of the story.

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The fire had (already, all ready) raged out of control when the emergency vehicles arrived.

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The architect was (already, all ready) to present his design to the construction company.

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Is it (alright, all right) to wear a striped necktie with a plaid shirt?

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The ice hockey player skated (as fast as, all the faster) he could to get by the left wing.

Grammar 4.2: Usage II (Allusion → Would Of)
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They (can’t hardly, can hardly) believe what they found.

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They saw that molten rock oozes (continuously, continually) from the seafloor.

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It cools, hardens, and is (taken, brought) away from the openings, or rifts.

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This, said scientists, (can, may) explain how continents move.

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If the seafloor moved, Earth’s crust (could of, could have) moved, too.

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This movement (borrows, lends, loans) credence to the theory of plate tectonics, which suggests that Earth is broken into large plates.

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Geologists (can, may) tell that when two continental plates collide, they push up material and form mountain ranges.

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In fact, the Himalayas are (continuously, continually) rising by five centimeters each year.

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Continental drift is a theory that is now believed (everywhere, everywheres).

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If you put North and South America (beside, besides) each other, they would fit together.

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(Being as, Since) at one time only one continent may have existed, all the continents would have fit together.

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When Alfred Wegener suggested this theory, people reacted (bad, badly).

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However, Wegener showed other evidence (beside, besides).

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There was a similarity (between, among) the many species of animal and plant fossils on the continents of Africa, South America, Australia, and Asia.

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He also made (allusion, illusion) to the one-time presence of glaciers in Australia.

Grammar 4.3: Usage III (Different From → It's)
PART 3 of 5
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1. Choose the word or expression in parentheses that best completes each sentence. (15 points)
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Hemingway was born in 1899 (into, in, in to) Oak Park, Illinois.

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Hemingway began his career as a journalist (in, into, in to) Kansas City at the Star.

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(Irregardless, Regardless) of his budding career, he went to Italy and worked as an ambulance driver in World War I.

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Due to his wartime experiences, his writings delved (farther, further) into themes of violence and the need for courage.

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Hemingway went to Paris where he met American authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein who were not so (different from, different than) himself.

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They (hanged, hung) around together and encouraged each other to write.

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One of his most famous novels, The Sun Also Rises, was about a group of disillusioned Americans, not (different than, different from) those he met while in Paris.

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A Farewell to Arms, while set in World War I Italy, was (less, fewer) a war story than a love story.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls (doesn’t, don’t) take place in Italy, but in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

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During the 1950s Hemingway wrote (less, fewer) books.

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He did, however, (farther, further) his career with the successful 1952 novel, The Old Man and the Sea.

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Developing an interest in fishing, he wrote (fewer, less) novels but created characters who seem to live.

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For example, the reader (doesn’t, don’t) forget Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea.

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Santiago is an aged Cuban fisherman who takes his boat into the ocean (farther, further) than is safe.

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Although he was once a respected fisherman, Santiago’s long streak of bad luck means people (don’t, doesn’t) have faith in him.

Grammar 4.4: Usage IV (Lay → These Kinds)
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(This kind, These kinds) of flowers do well in the shade.

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Jonas had to (leave, let) for his babysitting job at seven o’clock.

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Please (lay, lie) my tennis trophy on the mantel.

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My little sister has a dress just (like, as) her doll’s dress.

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Last Saturday morning I (laid, lay) in bed until noon.

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If you know the answer, (raise, rise) your hand.

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Enrique (past, passed) through the grocery store on his way home from school.

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The information boxes (proceed, precede) the exercises in this workbook.

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Did my candidate (lose, loose) the election?

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My mom (raises, rises) early each day to go to the gym before work.

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Amed and Héroko are working together to fix the (lose, loose) knob on the stereo.

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(This kind, These kinds) of muffin is Crystal’s favorite.

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Our class (learns, teaches) that the animal kingdom has a well-defined social order.

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Please do not (raise, rise) the blind.

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Coyote cubs can make noises that sound (like, as) human babies crying.

Grammar 4.5: Usage V (Respectfully → You're)
PART 5 of 5
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Carlos, Pete, and Hillman are eight, ten, and fourteen, (respectfully, respectively).

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You can do better (than, then) that!

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(This here, This) coat is my favorite.

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Yesterday, my teacher (says, said) I could make up the test.

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Please (sit, set) quietly while the speaker is introduced.

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If you must point out his errors, please do it (respectfully, respectively).

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(Where at, Where) are the maps we will need for our trip?

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(That there, That) constellation can be seen only in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Everyone (says, said) this has been the best year yet.

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(Sit, Set) the procedure and follow it each time to prevent confusion.

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Yesterday the art teacher (say, said), “Who would like to exhibit a project at the public library?”

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Endangered species, such as the California condor, are more (than, then) just threatened.

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They even agreed (two, too, to) take care of the animals for Mr. Webb.

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Do you know (where, where at) the original Constitution of the United States is kept?

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