Basic English Writing Sentence diagnostic Practice (1)

Name: ________________
NO: __________________

Choose one underlined part that makes the sentence structure incorrect.

__c__ 1. The impact on earth of a large meteorite was a possible contributing

A B
factor when 70 percent of all living species became extinct 65 million years ago.
C D

__c_2. More hydroelectric power plants are built in the United States than those in
any other
A B C
countries.
D
__a_ 3. Many of the early Cubist were influenced by the strength and simplicity of
A B C
African Negro sculpture and by the structural landscapes of Paul Cezanne.
D
B 4. There is a great amount of evidence that clothes have been sewn for more than
A B C D
15,000 years.

_d__5. It takes a ship approximately eight hours to complete the trip through the
A B
Panama Canal instead of traveling some seven thousands miles around Cape Horn.
C D
__d_6. Many sea turtles have been reported to navigate thousand of miles through the
A B C
ocean and finally return to their nesting areas.
D
_d__7. The lizards include animals of a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, and
A
the largest of the gigantic lizards measure approximately nine or ten foot in length.
B C D

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__b_ 8. An university education enables people to earn better salaries, to participate
A B
more actively in the affairs of their communities, and to have a better understanding
C D
of different filed of interest.

__b_9. There was a magnificent exhibition of Picasso in celebration of a centennial of

A B C
his birth.
D
_a__ 10. The secretary has announced that the Board of Directors will meet
A B C
the next month.
D
__c_11. Elizabeth Blackwell was an American female doctor of nineteen century who
A B C
established the first medical school for women.
D
_a__12. Well known for their poetry and critical works, Thomas Stearns Eliot
received
A B C
the 1948 Nobel Prize for literature, but his The Waste Land seemed to have caused

quite a controversy.
D
__d_13. Even though Margaret Mitchell was totally disabled in one foot and was
A B
extremely feeble in another, she still managed to finish her novel Gone with the Wind.
C D
__a_14. Both of the three girls fell in love with John; as a result, they refused to speak
A B C
to each other.
D
a__ 15. Unlike mitosis, which it takes place in four orderly stages, meiosis consists of
A B C
two separate divisions of sex cells for living things to reproduce themselves sexually.
D

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_d _16. John Hancock participated in signing the historic Declaration of
Independence,
A B
which set forth the reasons for the independence of which is now the United States
C D
from Great Britain.

_b_ 17. Poverty is one of the major problems among the developing countries, much
of
A B
which depend on foreign countries for assistance.
C D
II. Sentence-combining. Combine the following pairs of sentences.

1a. The noise along the hall interfered with her powers of concentration.
1b. Jodie grabbed up her books.
1c. She headed for the library.
1c. She wanted to finish her geology paper.
The noise along the hall interfered with her powers of concentration, so Jodie,
wanting to finish her geology paper, grabbed up her books and headed for the library.

2a. Henri Matisse is now recognized as a gifted painter.

2b. He was born in Le Cateau, France, in 1869.
2c. Today in Le Cateau one may visit the Matisse Museum in the town hall.
Henri Matisse was born in Le Cateau France in 1869. He is now recognized as a
gifted painter, so today in Le Cateau one may visit the Matisse Museum in the town
hall.

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3a. I worked at our library’s annual used-book sale.
3b. I came across three copies of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
3c. The author, Omar Khayyam, was a Persian mathematician, an astronomer, and a
poet.
I worked at our library’s annual used-book sale and I came across three copies of The
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which was a Persian mathematician, an astronomer, and
a poet.