SENTENCE CORRECTION TEST

Q1. One view of the economy contends that a large drop in oil prices should eventually lead to lowering
interest rates, as well as lowering fears about inflation, a rally in stocks and bonds, and a weakening of the
dollar.

(A) lowering interest rates, as well as lowering fears about inflation,

(B) a lowering of interest rates and of fears about inflation,
(C) a lowering of interest rates, along with fears about inflation,
(D) interest rates being lowered, along with fears about inflation,
(E) interest rates and fears about inflation being lowered, with

Q2. Few people realize that the chance of accidental injury or death may be as great or greater in the “safety”
of their own homes than in a plane or on the road.

(A) may be as great or greater in the “safety” of their own homes than
(B) is at least as great or greater in the “safety” of their own homes than
(C) might be so great or greater in the “safety” of their own home as
(D) may be at least as great in the “safety” of their own homes as
(E) can be at least so great in the “safety” of their own home as

Q3. Although he had planned on pursuing a law degree, Eli Whitney's college debt forced him to accept a
private tutoring job in South Carolina, a decision that ultimately led to the invention of the cotton gin and a
revolution of the cotton industry.

(A) had planned on pursuing a law degree, Eli Whitney's college debt forced him to accept a private tutoring
job in South Carolina
(B) planned on pursuing a law degree, Eli Whitney's college debt forced him to accept a private tutoring job in
South Carolina
(C) had planned on pursuing a law degree, Eli Whitney was forced to accept a private tutoring job in South
Carolina to pay his college debt
(D) planned on pursuing a law degree, Eli Whitney had college debt so it forced him into accepting a private
tutoring job in South Carolina
(E) had planned on pursuing a law degree, college debt forced Eli Whitney to accept a private tutoring job in
South Carolina

Q4. Trees inherit from their parent trees not only physical features and also specific environmental
requirements, such as for a particular forest's soil, air, degree of moisture, and weather conditions.

(A) and also specific environmental requirements, such as for a particular forest's soil
(B) and also specific environmental requirements, like the soil of a particular forest
(C) but also specific environmental requirements, such as for the soil of a particular forest
(D) but also specific environmental requirements, like a particular forest's soil
(E) but also specific environmental requirements, such as for a particular forest's soil
Q5. The World Wildlife Fund has declared that global warming, a phenomenon most scientists agree to be
caused by human beings in burning fossil fuels, will create havoc among migratory birds by altering the
environment in ways harmful to their habitats.

(A) a phenomenon most scientists agree to be caused by human beings in burning fossil fuels,
(B) a phenomenon most scientists agree that is caused by fossil fuels burned by human beings,
(C) a phenomenon that most scientists agree is caused by human beings' burning of fossil fuels,
(D) which most scientists agree on as a phenomenon caused by human beings who burn fossil fuels,
(E) which most scientists agree to be a phenomenon caused by fossil fuels burned by human beings,

Q6. Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French
throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that if they did not hold it, their grip
on Algeria was always insecure.

(A) if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure
(B) without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure
(C) their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it
(D) without that, they could never be secure about their grip on Algeria
(E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold it

Q7. The British Admiralty and the War Office met in March 1892 to consider a possible Russian attempt to
seize Constantinople and how they would have to act militarily to deal with them.

(A) how they would have to act militarily to deal with them
(B) how to deal with them if military action would be necessary
(C) what would be necessary militarily for dealing with such an event
(D) what military action would be necessary in order to deal with such an event
(E) the necessity of what kind of military action in order to take for dealing with it

Q8. In the most common procedure for harvesting forage crops such as alfalfa, as much as 20 percent of the
leaf and small-stem material, which is the most nutritious of all the parts of the plant, shattered and fell to the
ground.

(A) which is the most nutritious of all the parts of the plant, shattered and fell
(B) the most nutritious of all parts of the plant, shatter and fall
(C) the parts of the plant which were most nutritious, will shatter and fall
(D) the most nutritious parts of the plant, shatters and falls
(E) parts of the plant which are the most nutritious, have shattered and fallen
Q9. In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the
debt by using the company's earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their
divisions.

(A) by using the company's earnings and to profit

(B) by using the companies' earnings and by profiting
(C) using the companies' earnings and profiting
(D) with the company's earnings, profiting
(E) with the companies' earnings and to profit

Q10. The computer software being designed for a project studying Native American access to higher education
will not only meet the needs of that study, but also has the versatility and power of facilitating similar research
endeavours.

(A) but also has the versatility and power of facilitating

(B) but also have the versatility and power to facilitate
(C) but it also has the versatility and power to facilitate
(D) and also have the versatility and power of facilitating
(E) and it also has such versatility and power that it can facilitate

Q11. Just like the Internet today, often being called an “information superhighway,” the telegraph was
described in its day as an “instantaneous highway of thought.”

(A) Just like the Internet today, often being

(B) Just as the Internet is today often
(C) As with the Internet being today often
(D) As is often the case today with the Internet,
(E) Similar to the Internet today, often

Q12. Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to
recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak.

(A) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to
recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak
(B) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, which they admit they lack, many people are disinclined to
recognize that their analytical skills are weak
(C) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, analytical skills bring out a disinclination in many people to
recognize that they are weak to a degree
(D) Many people, willing to admit that they lack computer skills or other technical skills, are disinclined to
recognize that their analytical skills are weak
(E) Many people have a disinclination to recognize the weakness of their analytical skills while willing to admit
their lack of computer skills or other technical
Q13. Some psychiatric studies indicate that among distinguished artists the rates of manic depression and
major depression are ten to thirteen times as prevalent as in the population at large.

(A) the rates of manic depression and major depression are ten to thirteen times as prevalent as in
(B) the rates of manic depression and major depression are ten to thirteen times more prevalent than in
(C) the rates of manic depression and major depression are ten to thirteen times more prevalent when
compared to
(D) manic depression and major depression are ten to thirteen times as prevalent when compared to
(E) manic depression and major depression are ten to thirteen times more prevalent than in

Q14.Just because King Alfred occupied and fortified London in 886 did not mean that he also won the loyalty
of its citizens: the invading Danes were well aware of this weakness and used it to their advantage in 893.

(A) Just because King Alfred occupied and fortified London in 886 did not mean that he
(B) The fact that King Alfred had occupied and fortified London in 886 did not mean that he had
(C) Just because King Alfred occupied and fortified London in 886, it did not mean he
(D) The fact that King Alfred occupied and fortified London in 886, it did not mean that he
(E) Just because King Alfred had occupied and fortified London in 886, it did not mean he

Q15. The proposed health care bill would increase government regulation of health insurance, establish
standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing
jobs who otherwise could be uncovered for months.

(A) establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers
changing jobs who
(B) establishing standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to
workers who are changing jobs and
(C) to establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to
workers who change jobs that
(D) for establishing standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and
workers changing jobs who
(E) for the establishment of standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems
and workers who are changing jobs that

Q16. Patience Lovell Wright, whose travelling waxworks exhibit preceded Madame Tussaud's work by 30
years, became well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered
popular public figures in wax.

(A) well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular
public figures in wax
(B) well known as much for having an eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public
figures
(C) well known as much because of her eccentric personality as she was for her skillful wax renderings of
popular public figure
(D) as well known for having an eccentric personality as having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(E) as well known for her eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
Q17. The physical structure of the human eye enables it to sense light of wavelengths up to 0.0005
millimeters; infrared radiation, however, is invisible because its wavelength—0.1 millimeters—is too long to be
registered by the eye.

(A) infrared radiation, however, is invisible because its wavelength—0.1 millimeters—is too long to be
registered by the eye
(B) however, the wavelength of infrared radiation—0.1 millimeters—is too long to be registered by the eye
making it invisible
(C) infrared radiation, however, is invisible because its wavelength—0.1 millimeters—is too long for the eye to
register it
(D) however, because the wavelength of infrared radiation is 0.1 millimeters, it is too long for the eye to
register and thus invisible
(E) however, infrared radiation has a wavelength of 0.1 millimeters that is too long for the eye to register, thus
making it invisible

Q18. The cheetah seems to be headed for extinction because, resulting from intensive inbreeding generations
ago, the species has so little genetic variation that it is extremely vulnerable to environmental change.

(A) because, resulting from intensive inbreeding generations ago,

(B) because, as a result of intensive inbreeding generations ago,
(C) because they inbred intensively generations ago so that
(D) because there was intensive inbreeding generations ago and
(E) as a result of their intensive inbreeding generations ago, and

Q19. Despite recent increases in sales and cash flow that have propelled automobile companies’ common
stocks to new highs, several industry analysts expect automakers, in order to conserve cash, to set dividends
more conservatively than they were.

(A) to set dividends more conservatively than they were

(B) to set dividends more conservatively than they have been
(C) to be more conservative than they have been in setting dividends
(D) that they will be more conservative than they were in setting dividends
(E) that they will be more conservative than they have been to set dividends
Q20. By devising an instrument made from a rod, wire, and lead balls, and employing uncommonly precise
measurements, in 1797–1798 Henry Cavendish’s apparatus enabled him to arrive at an astonishingly accurate
figure for the weight of the earth.

(A) By devising an instrument made from a rod, wire, and lead balls, and employing uncommonly precise
measurements, in 1797–1798 Henry Cavendish’s apparatus enabled him
(B) In 1797–1798, by devising an instrument made from a rod, wire, and lead balls, and employing
uncommonly precise measurements, Henry Cavendish’s apparatus enabled him
(C) Henry Cavendish devised an instrument made from a rod, wire, and lead balls, and employed uncommonly
precise measurements, and in 1797–1798 was able
(D) Having devised an instrument from a rod, wire, and lead balls, and employment of uncommonly precise
measurements, Henry Cavendish in 1797–1798 was able
(E) By devising an instrument made from a rod, wire, and lead balls, and employing uncommonly precise
measurements, Henry Cavendish was able in 1797–1798

Q21. Because of the enormous research and development expenditures required to survive in the electronics
industry, an industry marked by rapid innovation and volatile demand, such firms tend to be very large.

(A) to survive
(B) of firms to survive
(C) for surviving
(D) for survival
(E) for firms’ survival

Q22. Heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved from the previous year, only look less appetizing than their
round and red supermarket cousins, often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but
are more flavourful.

(A) cousins, often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but are
(B) cousins, often green and striped, or with plenty of bumps and bruises, although
(C) cousins, often green and striped, or they have plenty of bumps and bruises, although they are
(D) cousins; they are often green and striped, or with plenty of bumps and bruises, although
(E) cousins; they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but they are

Q23. With cloning technology, scientists are approaching what has long been the ultimate goal of modern
husbandry: achieving a consistency of quality and production in farm animals as once thought to be limited to
manufactured goods.

(A) achieving a consistency of quality and production in farm animals as once thought to be
(B) achieving farm animals with a consistency of quality and production as were once thought of as
(C) achieving in farm animals a consistency of quality and production that was once thought to be
(D) achievement of farm animals whose consistency of quality and production are the same as what were once
thought to he
(E) achievement of farm animals at a consistency of quality and production once thought of as
Q24. Because of the erratic pattern of sales increases this year, retailers and analysts hesitate to predict five-
year trends in retail sales during the months that have historically been the most profitable.

A) Because of the erratic pattern of sales increases this year, retailers and analysts hesitate to predict
B) With the erratic pattern of this year’s sales increases, retailers and analysts are hesitant in predicting
C) This year, due to the erratic pattern of increasing sales, there is some hesitation among retailers and
analysts in predicting
D) The erratic pattern of sales increases have made retailers and analysts hesitate this year to predict
E) This year’s erratic pattern of increasing sales have made retailers and analysts hesitate to predict

Q25. Like the grassy fields and old pastures that the upland sandpiper needs for feeding and nesting when it
returns in May after wintering in the Argentine Pampas, the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United
States is a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in farming practices.

(A) the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United States is a result of residential and industrial
development and of changes in
(B) the bird itself is vanishing in the northeastern United States as a result of residential and industrial
development and of changes in
(C) that the birds themselves are vanishing in the northeastern United States is due to residential and
industrial development and changes to
(D) in the northeastern United States, sandpipers' vanishing due to residential and industrial development and
to changes in
(E) in the northeastern United States, the sandpipers' vanishing, a result of residential and industrial
development and changing

Q26. In the United States one of the earliest challengers of the economic principle of free trade was Alexander
Hamilton, who in 1792 advocated government policies that would encourage indigenous manufacturing and to
protect it from competition from British exports.

(A) and to protect it

(B) but protecting it
(C) while protecting it
(D) for protecting them
(E) to protect them

Q27. Despite its attractiveness, investing abroad can still pose big risks, ranging from the potential for political
instability in some countries to the shortage of regulations to protect investors and a serious lack of
information about investments in others.

(A) to the shortage of regulations to protect investors and a serious lack of information about investments in
others
(B) to the shortage of regulations to protect investors and in others a serious lack of information about
investments
(C) and the shortage of regulations to protect investors and a serious lack of information about investments in
others
(D) and the shortage of regulations to protect investors to a serious lack of information about investments in
others
(E) to the shortage of regulations to protect investors in others and a serious lack of information about
investments

Q28. An array of tax incentives has led to a boom in the construction of new office buildings; so abundant has
capital been for commercial real estate that investors regularly scour the country for areas in which to build.

(A) so abundant has capital been for commercial real estate that
(B) capital has been so abundant for commercial real estate, so that
(C) the abundance of capital for commercial real estate has been such,
(D) such has the abundance of capital been for commercial real estate that
(E) such has been an abundance of capital for commercial real estate,

Q29. The type of behaviour exhibited when an animal recognizes itself in a mirror comes within the domain of
“theory of mind,” thus is best studied as part of the field of animal cognition.

(A) of “theory of mind,” thus is best

(B) “theory of mind,” and so is best to be
(C) of a “theory of mind,” thus it is best
(D) of “theory of mind” and thus is best
(E) of the “theory of mind,” and so it is best to be