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AP English Language and Composition Unit 8B: Synonyms, Antonyms and Lexical Nuance — practice questions — page 3

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A preposition with no complement, as in She went up, is ____.Read the answer and worked solution →A multi-word preposition is called a ____ preposition.Read the answer and worked solution →In preposition stranding, the preposition ends up at the end of the ____.Read the answer and worked solution →In a cloze test, a portion of text is masked and the learner must ____ it.Read the answer and worked solution →The word cloze is derived from ____ in Gestalt theory.Read the answer and worked solution →The cloze exercise was first described in 1953 by ____.Read the answer and worked solution →In a cloze exercise, words may be deleted mechanically (every nth word) or ____.Read the answer and worked solution →In "I went to the ____ and bought some milk", the blank must be filled by aRead the answer and worked solution →Words with many synonyms have a ____ word clozability score.Read the answer and worked solution →Glover called cloze tests ____ recall, weaker than free recall but stronger than recognition.Read the answer and worked solution →In language-model training, cloze deletion is known as ____ language modelling.Read the answer and worked solution →English grammar requires most singular countable noun phrases to start with a ____.Read the answer and worked solution →The definite article is not typically used with generic nouns or with ____.Read the answer and worked solution →A newspaper headline may drop articles, so omission is common in signs, labels and ____.Read the answer and worked solution →It was too great ____ loss for the small team to bear.Read the answer and worked solution →He is such ____ idiot!Read the answer and worked solution →Everyone read quite ____ long letter from the principal.Read the answer and worked solution →Both ____ girls arrived early for the practice session.Read the answer and worked solution →We do not have ____ information about the missing file.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word that is closest in meaning to **AUGUST**.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word that is closest in meaning to **CORPULENT**.Read the answer and worked solution →

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A preposition with no complement, as in She went up, is ____.

  1. complex
  2. intransitive
  3. passive
  4. transitive
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Correct answer: B. intransitive

A preposition that takes no complement is intransitive, while one with a noun phrase complement is transitive.

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A multi-word preposition is called a ____ preposition.

  1. fronted
  2. complex
  3. stranded
  4. simple
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Correct answer: B. complex

A complex preposition is made of more than one word, such as in front of.

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In preposition stranding, the preposition ends up at the end of the ____.

  1. title
  2. noun
  3. clause
  4. word
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Correct answer: C. clause

Stranding leaves the preposition at the end of the clause after the interrogative or relative phrase moves forward.

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