Select the letter of the correct noun to fill in the blank in each of the following sentences. One of the ____ spoke in defense of the accused.

A) women
B) woman
C) womens

Select the correct noun for each blank. Timber ____ are extinct in Western Europe, but they can still be found in North America, Russia, and parts of Asia.

A) wolves
B) wolfs

For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. Zoological scientists traveled to Siberia and tooked the discovery to the Russian Academy of Science's Zoological Institute where experts carefully preserved the mammoth in a special refrigerator.

A) traveled
B) tooked
C) preserved

Each of the following groups contains one correct sentence. Select the correct sentence from each group. Which sentence is correct?

A) Mr. Lecque celebrated his seventy-second birthday with a square dance, all who attended had a wonderful time.
B) Mr. Lecque celebrated his seventy-second birthday with a square dance all who attended had a wonderful time.
C) Mr. Lecque celebrated his seventy-second birthday with a square dance; all who attended had a wonderful time.

The following sentences form a paragraph. For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Either way, we experience stress physically and in an emotional sense . A second type is chronic stress.

A) experience
B) in an emotional sense
C) type is

The paragraph below is developed by a specific mode or pattern. Read the paragraph; then answer the question(s) .
(1) I hadn't seen my childhood bedroom in the two years since I had left for France. (2) My parents kept everything in place, as if I had never left. (3) An enormous poster of Michael Jordan was still tacked to the front of the door. (4) On the wall were markings of my height, from age three to eighteen. (5) In the bookcase next to my bed stood all the science fiction novels and copies of Sports Illustrated that I had read in middle and high school. (6) Above the bed, a model airplane hung, suspended by thin wires. (7) I lay on the bed, now too small for me, and watched the model airplane move gently in the breeze.
Select the type of development the writer of this paragraph has used.

A) illustration
B) narration
C) description
D) process
E) definition
F) persuasion
G) classification
H) cause/effect

For each of the following sentences, select "correct" if the sentence is punctuated correctly, "fragment" if it is a fragment, "run-on" if it is a run-on, and "comma splice" if it is a comma splice. "Barbecue" comes from the Spanish word berbekot , which refers to the wooden framework used for cooking meat.

A) correct
B) fragment
C) run-on
D) comma splice

Choose the correct words to insert in each of the following sentences. Then select the letter of the correct response. Otis likes ____ to work rather than ____ the bus.

A) walking, taking
B) walking, take
C) walk, take

Read each one of the following essay introductions. Select the letter of the method the writer used to begin the composition. The essay below begins with a(n)
Most people would agree that children should participate in team sports to have fun and develop good character. But a recent survey conducted by the Citizenship Through Sports Alliance, a national coalition of sports organizations that includes the National Collegiate Athletic Association and three of the four major professional leagues, found that today's parents and coaches have a very different idea about why children should play sports like soccer, baseball, and basketball. They believe that winning is more important than anything. Go to any youth game, and there will be at least one mom, dad, or coach who is yelling at the kids as though they're playing in a professional-level championship. These people have lost sight of the children's best interests, and they need to be reminded of the real value of participating in sports.

A) single-sentence thesis statement.
B) illustration.
C) contradiction.

Select the letter of the word in the sentence that is a look-alike/sound-alike error. As dawn approached, the morning star seemed to lose some of it's brilliance.

A) lose
B) some
C) it's