True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true
or false.
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You don’t need to use specific verbs when you are
writing instructions.
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2.
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It is a bad thing to have sentences of different lengths in your
writing. They should all be the exact same length.
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3.
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Reseach papers need to be proofread so that mistakes
are corrected for the final copy.
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When checking to see what the correct spelling of a
word is, you would look in a thesaurus.
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It is a good idea to check your research paper line by line and to
check for each kind of error one at a time.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Choose the verb that is more exact.
a. | Open your sock
drawer and choose a pair. | b. | Get some socks.
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Choose the sentence that uses more details.
a. | Put soap on your sponge. | b. | Gently squeeze soap onto a sponge then run warm water over the
sponge and squeeze the sponge. | | | | |
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Choose the sentences that have different sentence lenghts.
a. | Everyone must
sit in a circle. Then one person becomes the duck. He walks around the circle slowly. When he chooses
someones, he says “Goose”. | b. | In this game all the players except one sit in a big circle.
The one player not sitting is the picker. He walks around the circle. He says “Duck” to
those he is not picking. He says “Goose” to who he does pick. Then they run!
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Choose the sentence uses a verb in the present tense.
a. | She walked to her friend’s house.
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her friend’s house. | b. | She walks to her friends’s house.
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Choose the type of error there is in the following sentence.
The cats pounces on the toy.
a. | Capitalization | c. | Verb Form | b. | Punctuation | | | | |
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