SIMPLE SENTENCE: APPOSITIVE
1. The Duncan sofa, __________ is highly valued in today 's antique furniture market.
a colonial masterpiece,
a colonial masterpiece which
it is a colonial masterpiece that
whose colonial masterpiece
2. Ulysses S . Grant, ________, showed great magnanimity...
SIMPLE SENTENCE: PARALLEL STRUCTURE
1. Egyptian pyramids were regularly robbed despite their intricate passageways, byzantine mazes, and __________.
walls which were false
they had false walls
false walls
walls of falsity
2. In the years following the American Revolution and prior to the...
SIMPLE SENTENCE: INFINITIVE
1. From the inception of his long and distinguished career, Frank Lloyd Wright was concerned with how __________ architecture with topography.
integrating
to integrate
did he integrate
integrated
2. Legendary home of the Nabateans, Petra is known ________...
SIMPLE SENTENCE: WORD ORDER
1. Because of its warm tropical climate, Hawaii __________ subzero temperatures.
almost experiences never
experiences never almost
experiences almost never
almost never experiences
2. In flush financial times, ________ on Wall Street may employ as many as 800...
SIMPLE SENTENCE: CONNECTOR
1. Emma Thompson was nominated for an Academy Award as both a screenwriter __________ an actress in 1996.
also
or
in addition
and
2. With neither a naturally aggressive disposition ________ particularly large size, the mimic octopus survives quite easily because...
SIMPLE SENTENCE: SUBJECT
1. __________ was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the photoelectric effect.
That Einstein
It was Einstein
Einstein who
Einstein
2. ________ of Willa Catha present an unadorned picture of life on the prairies of the Midwestern United States...
SIMPLE SENTENCE: PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
1. In __________, the crime rate has begun to drop due to neighborhood watch programs.
the past few years
a few years ago
few years
a few years since
2. Three responsibilities ________ are to search out, identify, and assess patentable inventions and...
SIMPLE SENTENCE: VERB
1. With the passing of time and the encroachment of people, the habitat of gorillas __________ to decrease.
continuing
which continue
continues
that it has continued
2. Sugar intake, particularly that of refined sugar, ________ curtailed by most overweight people...