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AP English Language and Composition Unit 7C: Modifiers, Clauses and Sentence Transformation — practice questions — page 2

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Choose the correct word: Of the two brothers, Ravi is the ___.Read the answer and worked solution →Which expression do prescriptive grammars reject as illogical?Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form: This painting is ___ than that one.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form: He is the ___ player in the whole team.Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the sentence: If it ___ tomorrow, the match will be cancelled.Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the sentence: If she had studied harder, she ___ the exam.Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the sentence: She insisted that the guard ___ the gate at once.Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the sentence: It is vital that she ___ present at the meeting.Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the sentence: We demand that the report ___ submitted today.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct word: The teacher to ___ I gave the book smiled.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct word: I helped the lads ___ car had broken down.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct word: These are the men ___ work upstairs.Read the answer and worked solution →Which phrase contains a split infinitive?Read the answer and worked solution →An adverb placed between 'to' and the verb, as in 'to quickly leave', forms a:Read the answer and worked solution →In American usage, complete: The band ___ released its new album.Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the sentence: If I ___ you, I would apologise.Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the sentence: The panel recommended that he ___ a written warning.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word **closest in meaning** to *fatigue*. "There lay Duncan in a sound sleep after the **fatigues** of his journey."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word **closest in meaning** to *contrived*. "That it was too full of the milk of human kindness, to do a **contrived** murder."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word **closest in meaning** to the underlined word. "Such a **prophetic** greeting might well amaze him."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word **closest in meaning** to *abhorrent*. "She would not have undertaken a deed so **abhorrent** to her sex."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word **closest in meaning** to *ambitious*. "She was a bad, **ambitious** woman."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correctly spelled word:Read the answer and worked solution →Spot the error: "He returned back from Delhi yesterday."Read the answer and worked solution →In the lesson 'How I Taught My Grandmother to Read', the narrator stays in a village in:Read the answer and worked solution →In which Kannada weekly was the novel 'Kashi Yatre' appearing as a serial?Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form: "Each of the boys ___ a prize."Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct tense: "By the time he arrived, the train ___."Read the answer and worked solution →The Kannada word 'Avva' used by the narrator for her grandmother means:Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct tense: "He ___ his homework before the teacher came."Read the answer and worked solution →

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Choose the correct word: Of the two brothers, Ravi is the ___.

  1. more taller
  2. taller
  3. most tall
  4. tallest
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Correct answer: B. taller

Traditional grammar uses the comparative form when only two persons are compared.

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Which expression do prescriptive grammars reject as illogical?

  1. very tall
  2. most unique
  3. much taller
  4. less crowded
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Correct answer: B. most unique

Unique already means one of a kind, so it cannot sensibly take a superlative.

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Choose the correct form: This painting is ___ than that one.

  1. most beautiful
  2. beautifuler
  3. more beautiful
  4. beautifullest
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Correct answer: C. more beautiful

Adjectives of three or more syllables form the comparative with more.

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