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AP English Language and Composition Unit 7C: Modifiers, Clauses and Sentence Transformation — practice questions

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Choose the best subject: Walking down the lane, ___ admired the old trees.Read the answer and worked solution →Strunk and White say a participle phrase that opens a sentence must refer to the sentence's:Read the answer and worked solution →A phrase modifying no noun, as in 'The weather being beautiful, we plan to go out', is a(n):Read the answer and worked solution →Complete in parallel form: She likes cooking, jogging, and ___.Read the answer and worked solution →Balance among similar phrases that share one grammatical structure is known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Repeating 'I have a dream that one day' at the start of successive clauses is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Using parallel structure in a sentence mainly improves its:Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: He is ___ university student from Kerala.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: We waited for ___ hour outside the gate.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct word: She gave me ___ useful advice.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: We do not have ___ information.Read the answer and worked solution →Pick the correct phrase: It was ___ long letter, full of news.Read the answer and worked solution →Pick the correct phrase: It was ___ loss for the whole village.Read the answer and worked solution →Pick the correct phrase: She is ___ clever girl.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: What ___ beautiful day!Read the answer and worked solution →Select the correct opening: ___ is famous for its fashion houses.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: ___ the girls won medals at the meet.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: Between you and ___, the plan is risky.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: The prize was shared between Ravi and ___.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: Meena and ___ went to the market.Read the answer and worked solution →A mistake made by overcorrecting what one wrongly thinks is an error is called:Read the answer and worked solution →In American English, complete: The jury ___ reached its verdict.Read the answer and worked solution →In British usage, complete: Arsenal ___ won the match.Read the answer and worked solution →A word naming a collection of things taken as a whole is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →In Standard English, two negatives in one independent clause are understood to:Read the answer and worked solution →The rhetorical term for saying 'I'm not feeling unwell' to mean mildly well is:Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: She did not give me ___ help.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: I cannot find my keys ___.Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these languages is an example of a negative-concord language?Read the answer and worked solution →Which bishop's 1762 grammar book is cited for the rule that two negatives make a positive?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Choose the best subject: Walking down the lane, ___ admired the old trees.

  1. the trees
  2. a breeze
  3. my aunt
  4. the shops
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Correct answer: C. my aunt

The walker must be the subject of the main clause, so I fits and the opening phrase no longer dangles.

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Strunk and White say a participle phrase that opens a sentence must refer to the sentence's:

  1. grammatical object
  2. main finite verb
  3. closing adverb
  4. grammatical subject
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Correct answer: D. grammatical subject

Their rule ties the opening participle phrase to the grammatical subject of the sentence.

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A phrase modifying no noun, as in 'The weather being beautiful, we plan to go out', is a(n):

  1. dangling participle
  2. split infinitive
  3. faulty parallel
  4. absolute construction
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Correct answer: D. absolute construction

An absolute phrase is not meant to modify any noun, so it is grammatical and not a dangling participle.

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