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Please assist with the following grammar related questions: (You can highlight the correct answer below each question.) Answer need to be correct, PLEASE DON’T GUESS!!!

Which of the following is NOT part of an introduction?

Question 1 options:

A)

Solution

B)

Context

C)

Further question

D)

Problem

Question 2 (1 point)

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If our readers struggle to understand our writing, the problem is not our flawed writing but their careless reading.

Question 2 options:

A) True

B) False

Question 3 (1 point)

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Passive voice has an appropriate place in your prose if:

Question 3 options:

A)

You don’t know who did an action or your reader doesn’t care who did an action

B)

You want to switch from one character to another

C)

The sentence lacks a flesh-and-blood character

D)

You want to avoid using “I” or “We”

Question 4 (1 point)

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Which of the following is NOT a principle of concision?

Question 4 options:

A)

Change negatives to affirmatives

B)

Delete interrupters

C)

Delete words implied by other words

D)

All the above

E)

Both A and B

Question 5 (1 point)

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“Don’t split infinitives” is an optional rule.

Question 5 options:

A) True

B) False

Question 6 (1 point)

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Readers judge sequences of sentences to be cohesive depending on how all the sentences in a passage cumulatively begin.

Question 6 options:

A) True

B) False

Question 7 (1 point)

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Think about the length of your sentences only if they are all longer than thirty words or shorter than fifteen.

Question 7 options:

A) True

B) False

Question 8 (1 point)

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To help readers grasp the coherence of a document:

Question 8 options:

A)

Repeat the themes

B)

State the main themes

C)

Identify the themes in headings

D)

All of the above

E)

None of the above

Question 9 (1 point)

Which of the following is a reason why we write unclearly?

Question 9 options:

A)

An awareness of our audience

B)

A good understanding of the content

C)

An excessive concern for correctness

D)

A simple style

E)

All the above

Question 10 (1 point)

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The following sentence is an example of what?

Most young people cannot grasp the insecurity that many people felt during the Great Depression, an insecurity that shaped them for the rest of their lives.

Question 10 options:

A)

Resumptive modifier

B)

Free modifier

C)

Dangling modifier

D)

Summative modifier

E)

Metadiscourse

Question 11 (1 point)

When you consistently rely on verbs to express key actions, your readers benefit by reading sentences that are:

Question 11 options:

A)

Concrete

B)

Consistent

C)

Concise

D)

Both A and C

E)

Both B and C

Question 12 (1 point)

The beginning of a sentence is usually the stress position because it is where writers introduce key themes.

Question 12 options:

A) True

B) False

Question 13 (1 point)

Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

Question 13 options:

A)

The first rule of ethical writing is to “write to others as you would have others write to you.”

B)

We owe our readers precise and nuanced prose, but we ought not to assume that they owe us an indefinite amount of their time to unpack it.

C)

Clarity is a value that is created by society and that society must work hard to maintain, for writing clearly is not just hard: it is almost an unnatural act. It has to be learned, sometimes painfully.

D)

The first principle of ethical writing is as follows: “We are ethical writers when we would willingly put ourselves in the place of our readers and experience what they do as they read what we’ve written.”

E)

All of the statements are true.

Question 14 (1 point)

Metadiscourse is language that refers to:

Question 14 options:

A)

Directions to the reader

B)

The structure of the text

C)

The writer’s intentions

D)

All of the above

E)

None of the above

Question 15 (1 point)

Readers want actions in verbs, but they want characters as subjects even more.

Question 15 options:

A) True

B) False

Question 16 (1 point)

What makes a sentence graceful?

Question 16 options:

A)

Balance and symmetry

B)

Subjects and verbs

C)

Introductory clauses

D)

None of the above

E)

All of the above

Question 17 (1 point)

Which sentence contains a nominalization?

Question 17 options:

A)

Fraternities understood that drinking on campus had to be controlled.

B)

If we revise the program, we can serve clients more efficiently.

C)

The agency conducted an investigation into the matter.

D)

The engineers struggled more than they expected when designing the new rollar coaster.

Question 18 (1 point)

A practical problem demands a change in understanding as a solution, and a conceptual problem demands an action as its solution.

Question 18 options:

A) True

B) False

Question 19 (1 point)

Readers must see how the parts of your document are ordered. They look for three kinds of order:

Question 19 options:

A)

Chronological, logical, and narrative

B)

Chronological, coordinate, and logical

C)

Chronological, narrative, and coordinate

D)

Logical, segment, and narrative

E)

Segment, coordinate, and chronological

Question 20 (1 point)

The words “comprise” and “constitute” are used correctly in the following sentences:

Canada comprises 10 provinces and three territories. Ten provinces and three territories constitute the country of Canada.

Question 20 options:

A) True

B) False

Question 21 (1 point)

Which of the following is NOT a principle of clarity?

Question 21 options:

A)

Open your sentence with familiar units of information

B)

Control sprawl

C)

Be concise

D)

Make it clear where each part/section begins and ends

E)

All of the above are principles of clarity

Question 22 (1 point)

The secret to a clear style is in the first seven or eight words of a sentence. Get those straight and the rest of the sentence usually takes care of itself.

Question 22 options:

A) True

B) False

Question 23 (1 point)

What is the foundation of a gracefully shaped sentence?

Question 23 options:

A)

Conjunction

B)

Coordination

C)

Clause

D)

Claim

Question 24 (1 point)

Which of the following is NOT a principle of coherence?

Question 24 options:

A)

Make everything that follows relevant to your point

B)

Begin sentences that form a unit with consistent subject/topics

C)

Open each part/section with its own short introductory segment

D)

Introduce the important concepts that you will develop in what follows

E)

All of the above are principles of coherence

Question 25 (1 point)

Ethos refers to your character that readers infer from your writing.

Question 25 options:

A) True

B) False

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