Select the letter of the correct pronoun for the blank in each of the following sentences. The University Judiciary Board, composed of twelve undergraduate students, reached ____ decision on the date rape case.

A) their
B) its
C) his or her

For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. Despite such challenges, on March 13, 2012, a Siberian research institute with access to mammoth remains signed an agreement with one of the world's most controversial geneticists, Hwang Woo-Suk of South Korea. They sayed that they would clone a mammoth together.

A) signed
B) sayed

Select the answer that joins each pair of simple sentences with conjunctions or conjunctive adverbs correctly and is punctuated correctly. Stephen cleans the kitchen and bathroom once a week.
They always look cluttered and messy.

A) Stephen cleans the kitchen and bathroom once a week, so they always look cluttered and messy.
B) Stephen cleans the kitchen and bathroom once a week; however, they always look cluttered and messy.
C) They always look cluttered and messy, although Stephen cleans the kitchen and bathroom once a week.

Find the complete subject and the complete verb in each of the following sentences. Then select the letter of the answer that contains both the subject and the verb. Bananas are an excellent source of potassium and magnesium.

A) Bananas, are
B) Bananas, source
C) Bananas, potassium, magnesium

In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where a verb should be. Select the letter of the verb that agrees with the subject of the sentence. Whenever my family ____ to a baseball game, we all ____ hot dogs and pretzels.

A) go, gets
B) goes, get

For the following questions, select the letter of the answer that correctly identifies each type of prewriting. My Best Friend
My best friend Robin. We met junior year, Sherman High School. A very caring person, has many friends because she's sympathetic to other people's problems. A really good listener. She's smart makes good grades. Got a scholarship. Nursing student, I know she'll be a good one ⎯ nurses have to be good at helping people, and Robin is great at that. Cares about animals, would be a good veterinarian if she doesn't become a nurse.
This prewriting is an example of

A) focused freewriting.
B) brainstorming.
C) clustering.
D) asking questions.
E) keeping a journal.

Identify each of the following statements as true or false.
Careful documentation of information gathered from outside sources will help prevent plagiarism.

Select the letter of the correct answer for each of the following question(s) . Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good summary?

A) It includes the author, title, and source of the original.
B) It's shorter than the original.
C) It includes your opinions about the ideas in the original source.

Identify each of the following statements as true or false.
Information from outside sources is usually interesting but does not help support an essay's main points.

For each pair of sentences below, select the letter of the option that provides the best sentence variety. Which answer choice provides the best sentence variety?

A) For instance, one house served as a recording studio, and another was a business office.
B) One house served as a recording studio. Another was a business office.

Below is a source followed by passage(s) from student papers. If the student has summarized, directly quoted, or indirectly quoted the source correctly, select "Correct." If you believe the source is incorrectly summarized or plagiarized, select "Incorrect."
"In May, scientists in the Gulf of Mexico began tracking plumes of methane and oil droplets drifting up to 30 miles from the broken [BP oil] well, at depths of 3,000 to 4,000 feet. One of those scientists was University of Georgia biogeochemist Mandy Joye, who has spent years studying hydrocarbon vents and brine seeps in the deep Gulf. She found a plume the size of Manhattan, and its methane levels were highest she had ever measured in the Gulf. As bacteria feast on spilled oil and methane, they deplete the water of oxygen; at one point Joy found oxygen levels dangerously low for life a water layer 600 feet thick, at depths where fish usually live. Since waters in the deep Gulf mix very slowly, she said, such depleted zones could persist for decades."
⎯ Bourne, Joel. "The Gulf of Oil: The Deep Dilemma."
Green . Boston: Wadsworth, 2013. 100-112. Print.
Student version: The BP Oil Company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was environmentally destructive. According to Joel Bourne, University of Georgia biogeochemist Mandy Joye found a plume the size of Manhattan, and its methane levels were highest she had ever measured in the Gulf. As bacteria feast on spilled oil and methane, they deplete the water of oxygen; at one point Joy found oxygen levels dangerously low for life a water layer 600 feet thick, at depths where fish usually live (110-111) .

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

The topic sentence below is followed by a brainstormed list of possible ideas for a paragraph. Decide which ideas support the topic sentence and should be kept and which ideas should be dropped. Select "keep" or "drop" for each idea. Topic sentence: Modern fireworks have their origins in tenth-century Chinese pyrotechnics.
A fireworks shell is a tube made of paper.

A) Keep
B) Drop

Read each of the following essay introductions. Select the method the writer used in each introduction. The essay below begins with a(n)
Almost all of us have heard of the Amish, the religious sect that separates itself from the world and rejects modern conveniences and advanced technology. We imagine people wearing hand-sewn clothing and living in homes without refrigerators, dishwashers, televisions, and telephones. However, the Amish have been buying and using cell phones for years. They also use in-line skates, power-operated grass cutters, and gas grills for barbecuing. The Amish employ such conveniences when they do not interfere with family life. Cell phones, for example, are kept outside the home and are used for business purposes only. The Amish people look at every modern-day convenience and accept it only if it works to bring together, not drive apart, members of the family and community.
⎯ Wired, January 1999,
Http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/amish.html

A) single-sentence thesis statement.
B) illustration.
C) contradiction.

Select the answer that correctly identifies the subject and complete verb in each sentence. Two-paycheck families are becoming more common.

A) Two-paycheck, are becoming
B) families, becoming
C) families, are becoming

Select the letter of the correct answer. Which of the following is a good way to identify personal error patterns?

A) Read your returned papers and study the errors marked by the instructor.
B) Read a book about grammar.
C) Read your classmates' papers and notice the mistakes they make.

Read each of the sentences below carefully. Then select the correct word in parentheses. The workshop leader pointed at ( her , herself ) and said, "You're next."

A) her
B) herself

The following sentences form a passage. For each sentence, select "correct" if the sentence is punctuated correctly, "fragment" if it is a fragment, "run-on" if it is a run-on, and "comma splice" if it is a comma splice. Then a television program on PBS changed his life the seventh grader watched in amazement as students in a well-equipped machine shop built their own robots.

A) correct
B) fragment
C) run-on
D) comma splice

Each group below contains one correct sentence. In each group, select the letter of the sentence that is correct. Which sentence is correct?

A) She inexperienced in the world of business.
B) Her inexperience in the world of business creates problems.
C) Is inexperience in the world of business.

Each of the following groups contains one correct sentence. Select the correct sentence from each group. Which sentence is correct?

A) Patiently waiting in line, hoping to buy tickets for the musical Hamilton .
B) They patiently waiting in line, hoping to buy tickets for the musical Hamilton .
C) They patiently waited in line, hoping to buy tickets for the musical Hamilton .

What kind of paragraph or essay is required by each of the following questions? Select the letter of the correct answer. What is the difference between a frog and a toad?

A) contrast
B) persuade
C) discuss effects