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AP English Language and Composition Unit 1A: Rhetorical Reading & Claims Analysis — practice questions — page 2

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Choosing the right wordRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the definition of the active voiceRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the definition of the passive voiceRead the answer and worked solution →Active or passive?Read the answer and worked solution →True or false: voiceRead the answer and worked solution →Naming the voiceRead the answer and worked solution →Order the steps: turn an active sentence passiveRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: why the passive is usedRead the answer and worked solution →Assertion and reasonRead the answer and worked solution →Two are true, one is notRead the answer and worked solution →Three of these are wrong. Find the one that holds.Read the answer and worked solution →Tap every sentence in the passive voiceRead the answer and worked solution →Flip and pair: voice with its signatureRead the answer and worked solution →Which sentence element moved?Read the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that does not belongRead the answer and worked solution →Reading the definitions backRead the answer and worked solution →Order the steps: turn a passive sentence activeRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: when the passive cannot be undoneRead the answer and worked solution →Can this verb go passive?Read the answer and worked solution →Spotting the agentRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that does not belongRead the answer and worked solution →Assertion and reason: transformationRead the answer and worked solution →Flip and pair: active with its passiveRead the answer and worked solution →Words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases are:Read the answer and worked solution →Every pronoun must match the noun it replaces in gender and:Read the answer and worked solution →The noun that a pronoun replaces is called its:Read the answer and worked solution →In Mariah said she wanted to go home, the antecedent of she is:Read the answer and worked solution →When Lizzie smacked her arm into the glass window, she broke it. The problem here is:Read the answer and worked solution →The grammatical function of a pronoun in a sentence is its:Read the answer and worked solution →In I like pizza, the pronoun I is in the:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Choosing the right word

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Questions
  1. Question
    Which is correct?
    Choices
    1. different than
    2. different from
    3. different to
    Correct choice
    different from
  2. Question
    The rain did not ___ the result.
    Choices
    1. effect
    2. either
    3. affect
    Correct choice
    affect
  3. Question
    They hoped to ___ a change.
    Choices
    1. effect
    2. affect
    3. either
    Correct choice
    effect
  4. Question
    There were ___ errors this time.
    Choices
    1. less
    2. fewer
    3. lesser
    Correct choice
    fewer
Applying the entries. Source: The Elements of Style, Strunk (1918), Words Commonly Misused.

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Complete the definition of the active voice

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Missing parts
  1. Answer
    subject
    Choices
    1. subject
    2. object
    3. agent
  2. Answer
    agent
    Choices
    1. agent
    2. object
    3. verb
Complete the statement
The active voice is the form of a verb that represents the {0} as acting. Put another way, it makes the subject and the {1} the same word.
Section 209 defines it by which words coincide. Source: An English Grammar, Baskervill and Sewell (1896), sections 209-211.

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Complete the definition of the passive voice

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Missing parts
  1. Answer
    acted
    Choices
    1. acted
    2. speaking
    3. asking
  2. Answer
    agent
    Choices
    1. agent
    2. subject
    3. verb
Complete the statement
In the passive voice the subject is spoken of as being {0} upon. The object and the subject become the same word, and the {1} may be omitted from the sentence altogether.
Section 211 defines it by a different coincidence, and notes what may drop out. Source: An English Grammar, Baskervill and Sewell (1896), sections 209-211.

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