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15. an imperative sentence is to a command as a declarative sentence is to a/an
a. question.
b. exclamation.
c. statement.
d. wish.
16. suppose you're writing a letter and you recall a word you'd like to use, but you don't know how it's
spelled. if you wanted to look up the word in a dictionary, you could use any of the following techniques
except
a. looking up a related word that you can spell in search of clues.
b. writing the word the way you think it's spelled to jog your recall.
c. using the first letter of the word and searching through all the entries under that letter.
d. looking up the word as you think it's spelled.
17. which one of the following sentences contains a spelling error?
a. every autumn we visit a quaint inn near boston.
b. evelyn was not familiar with the procedure.
c. joshua could give no good reason for his absence.
d. what would you like for desert?
end of exam
18. in which one of the following sentences is a word misspelled?
a. i spend my leisure time reading books.
b. laticia weighed herself on the bathroom scale.
c. niether lois nor clark believed in superman.
d. spanish isn't a foreign language if you're mexican.
19. in which one of the following sentences is the simple subject also the complete subject?
a. cory drove to middleton in his search for eloise.
b. detectives homer fry and janine small looked high and low for clues.
c. crocodiles, quiet as logs, lurked on the riverbank.
d. large and small dinosaurs stalked the grassy plains.
20. in which sentence is a homophone used correctly?
a. he could not break quickly enough to avoid the accident.
b. wherever you go, their you are.
c. he replaced the brake lining.
d. i would not want to be there mother.