Oganization struture questions 8 potx

48. c. The difference between 105 and 99 is 6 degrees.

Application of the ice pack plus a “resting”

period of 5 minutes before reapplication means

that the temperature is lowered by half a degree

every six minutes, or 1 degree every 12 min￾utes; 6 degrees times 12 minutes per degree

equals 72 minutes, or 1 hour and 12 minutes.

Section 3: Writing (Part A—

Multiple-Choice)

1. c. Middle Ages is a proper noun and should be

capitalized.

2. c. The objective pronoun her is misused in Part 1

as a subject pronoun; it needs to be replaced

with the pronoun she.

3. a. Quotation marks need to be inserted before the

quotation is resumed after the interrupting

phrase, the brochure informed her.

4. b. Part 1 states that guidelines were established,

and Part 4 states specifically what one of the

guidelines was, so Part 4 should follow Part 1.

Also the information in Part 2 follows from the

information in Part 4: Part 4 names roadblocks

as a type of guideline; Part 2 contains specific

information about roadblocks. So Part 2 should

be moved to come after Part 4.

5. d. In Part 8, the pronouns he or she need to be

changed to they to agree in number and person

with the antecedent officers.

6. a. The context requires a word meaning to add

something to complete a thing; choice a, sup￾plement, is the only word or phrase with that

meaning.

7. c. To correctly divideis a split infinitive. The infini￾tive is to divide. Choices a, b, and d do not make

this kind of error.

8. a. The context requires a verb that means to extend

beyond, not to come before. The words in the

other choices do not have this meaning.

9. a. Part 2 in the only interrogatory sentence in the

passage. Since it asks a question, it needs a ques￾tion mark as punctuation.

10. b. The main idea of this paragraph is that, while

genius has a recognizable pattern, the patterns

are extraordinary. Choice b directly states that

the patterns have the eerie quality of the fated.

11. c. The possessive Mozart’s is required before the

gerund composing.

12. a. Part 4 contains an error in pronoun/antecedent

agreement; the pronoun they must be changed

to it in order to agree in number and person

with its antecedent, regularity.

13. d. Part 6 is a statement about the effect of the play

in theater history in general; however, this state￾ment is placed in the midst of a description of

the reception of the opening of the play. The

paragraph ends with a statement about the

play’s effect on theater history, so Part 6 should

either be moved to the end of the paragraph or

removed. Since there is no choice to move Part

6 to the end of the paragraph, choice d is the

correct answer.

14. c. The names of works that can be published on

their own should be italicized, even if only part

of the title (in this case Godot) is used to desig￾nate the work; therefore choice b is incorrect.

Choice a is incorrect because Mr. Godot names

a character, not the play. Choice d is incorrect

because the titles of newspapers must be itali￾cized.

15. a. The comma in Part 5 separates the subject,

critics and playgoers, from its verb, greeted.

16. b. Inserting a comma in Part 2, after the word

opening, separates the introductory clause from

the rest of the sentence. The sentences in choices

a, c, and d are correct as they are written.

17. d. The two independent clauses in Part 2 need a

conjunction in order for the sentence to be

grammatically correct. Choices a, b, and c are

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