Sentence Corrections with answers

1- In the mid-1960's a newly installed radar warning system mistook the rising of the moon as a
massive missile attack by the Soviets.

(A) rising of the moon as a massive missile attack by the Soviets

(B) rising of the moon for a massive Soviet missile attack

(C) moon rising to a massive missile attack by the Soviets

(D) moon as it was rising for a massive Soviet missile attack

(E) rise of the moon as a massive Soviet missile attack

Answer B

2- If Dr. Wade was right, any apparent connection of the eating of highly processed foods and
excelling at sports is purely coincidental.

(A) If Dr. Wade was right, any apparent connection of the eating of

(B) Should Dr. Wade be right, any apparent connection of eating

(C) If Dr. Wade is right, any connection that is apparent between eating of

(D) If Dr. Wade is right, any apparent connection between eating

(E) Should Dr.Wade have been right, any connection apparent between eating

Answer D
 3- When the technique known as gene-splicing was invented in the early 1970’s, it was feared that
scientists might inadvertently create an “Andromeda strain,” a microbe never before seen on
Earth that might escape from the laboratory and it would kill vast numbers of humans who
would have no natural defenses against it.

(A) it would kill vast numbers of humans who would have no natural defenses against it

(B) it might kill vast numbers of humans with no natural defenses against it

(C) kill vast numbers of humans who would have no natural defenses against it

(D) kill vast numbers of humans who have no natural defenses against them

(E) kill vast numbers of humans with no natural defenses against them

Answer C

4- A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that even
Theodore C. Sorensen, the White House counsel, did not know it existed.

(A) A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that

(B) So secret was a recording system installation and operation in the Kennedy Oval Office

(C) It was so secret that a recording system was installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval
Office

(D) A recording system that was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office

(E) Installed and operated so secretly in the Kennedy Oval Office was a recording system that

Answer A

5- In 1791 Robert Carter III, one of the wealthiest plantation owners in Virginia, stunned his family,
friends, and neighbors by filing a deed of emancipation, setting free the more than 500 slaves
who were legally considered his property.

(A) setting free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered
(B) setting free more than the 500 slaves legally considered as
(C) and set free more than 500 slaves, who were legally considered as
(D) and set free more than the 500 slaves who were legally considered
(E) and he set free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered as
 Answer A

6- Federal authorities involved in the investigation have found the local witnesses are difficult to
locate, reticent, and are suspicious of strangers.

(A) the local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and are
(B) local witnesses to be difficult to locate, reticent, and are
(C) that local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and
(D) local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and they are
(E) that local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and they are

Answer C

7- Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained
townships point out that dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads.

(A) dirt roads cost twice as much as maintaining paved roads

(B) dirt roads cost twice as much to maintain as paved roads do

(C) maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as paved roads do

(D) maintaining dirt roads costs twice as much as it does for paved roads

(E) to maintain dirt roads costs twice as much as for paved roads

Answer B

8- A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five
billion people can be traced back to a common root language.

(A) that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people can be traced

(B) that the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be traced

(C) the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable

(D) all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people to be traceable

(E) the ability to trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world's five
billion people
 Answer A

9- With only 5 percent of the world's population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its
nonrenewable resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use 21 times more
water per capita than Europeans do.

(A) With
(B) As
(C) Being
(D) Despite having
(E) Although accounting for

Answer E

10- While depressed property values can hurt some large investors, they are potentially devastating
for homeowners, whose equity - in many cases representing a life's savings - can plunge or even
disappear.

(A) they are potentially devastating for homeowners, whose

(B) they can potentially devastate homeowners in that their

(C) for homeowners they are potentially devastating, because their

(D) for homeowners, it is potentially devastating in that their

(E) it can potentially devastate homeowners, whose

Answer A
11- While some propose to combat widespread illegal copying of computer programs by attempting
to change people's attitudes toward pirating, others by suggesting reducing software prices to
decrease the incentive for pirating, and still others by calling for the prosecution of those who
copy software illegally.

(A) by suggesting reducing software prices to decrease the incentive for pirating, and still others
by calling

(B) by suggesting the reduction of software prices to decrease the incentive for pirating, and still
others call

(C) suggest the reduction of software prices for decreasing the incentive for pirating, and still
others call

(D) suggest the reduction of software prices to decrease the incentive for pirating, and still
others by calling

(E) suggest reducing software prices to decrease the incentive for pirating, and still others are
calling

Answer E

12- A wildlife expert predicts that the reintroduction of the caribou into northern Minnesota would
fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more numerous than one wolf
for every 39 square miles.

(A) would fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more numerous than

(B) would fail provided the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more than

(C) should fail if the timber wolf density in that region was greater than

(D) will fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is greater than

(E) will fail if the timber wolf density in that region were more numerous than

Answer D
13- Concerned at the increase in accident fatalities, Tennessee adopted a child-passenger protection
law requiring the parents of children under four years of age to be restrained in a child safety
seat.

(A) the parents of children under four years of age to be restrained in a child safety seat
(B) the restraint of parents of children under four years of age in a child safety seat
(C) that parents restrain children under four years of age in a child safety seat
(D) that children be restrained under four years of age in a child safety seat by their parents
(E) children to be restrained under four years of age by their parents in a child safety seat

Answer C

14- Found throughout Central and South America, sloths hang from trees by long rubbery limbs and
sleep fifteen hours a day, moving infrequently enough that two species of algae grow on its coat
and between its toes.

(A) sloths hang from trees by long rubbery limbs and sleep fifteen hours a day, moving
infrequently enough

(B) sloths hang from trees by long rubbery limbs, they sleep fifteen hours a day, and with such
infrequent movements

(C) sloths use their long rubbery limbs to hang from trees, sleep fifteen hours a day, and move
so infrequently

(D) the sloth hangs from trees by its long rubbery limbs, sleeping fifteen hours a day and moving
so infrequently

(E) the sloth hangs from trees by its long rubbery limbs, sleeps fifteen hours a day, and it moves
infrequently enough

Answer D

15- The commission proposed that funding for the park's development, which could be open to the
public early next year, is obtained through a local bond issue.

(A) that funding for the park's development, which could be open to the public early next year,
is
(B) that funding for development of the park, which could be open to the public early next year,
be
(C) funding for the development of the park, perhaps open to the public early next year, to be
(D) funds for the park's development, perhaps open to the public early next year, be
(E) development funding for the park, which could be open to the public early next year, is to be
Answer B

16- With just a few quick slashes of the sword, her opponents were defeated by the fencer,
capitalizing on their slowness.
(A) her opponents were defeated by the fencer, capitalizing on their slowness

(B) the fencer defeated her opponents, capitalizing on their slowness

(C) the fencer capitalized on the slowness of her opponents, defeating them

(D) the fencer defeated her opponents and also capitalized on their slowness

(E) her opponents and their slowness were defeated by the fencer

Answer B

17- Although the music superstar agreed to a new contract, she says that it must be posted on her
public website so that both her new listeners and her old fans will know what is going on behind
the scenes.

(A) she says that it must be posted on her public website so that both her new listeners and her
old fans will know what is

(B) she says it had to be posted on her public website so that both her new listeners and her old
fans knows what is

(C) sshe says that they would have to post the contract on her public website so that her new
listeners and her old fans knew what was

(D) she says that the contract would have to be posted on her public website so that both her
new listeners and her old fans would know what was

(E) saying that the contract had to be posted on her public website so that both new listeners
and old fans would know what had been

Answer B
 18- Since her husband began playing violin, Molly has become much more expert in distinguishing
a tuned instrument and an out of tune one, a Stradivarius and a student rental.

(A) much more expert in distinguishing a tuned instrument and an out of tune one, a
Stradivarius and

(B) far more expert in distinguishing a tuned instrument from an out of tune one, a Stradivarius
from

(C) much more expert when it comes to distinguishing a tuned instrument and an out of tune
one, a Stradivarius from

(D) far more expert in distinguishing a tuned instrument and an out of tune one, a Stradivarius
and

(E) far more the expert when it comes to distinguishing between a tuned instrument, an out of
tune one, a Stradivarius, and

Answer B

19- The unsupervised party seeming to be innocuous teenage fun, Judith Larkin, mother of two
well-behaved daughters, thought nothing of allowing her children to attend it after the prom.

(A) The unsupervised party seeming to be

(B) As the unsupervised party was
(C) In that the unsupervised party seemed
(D) Since the unsupervised party was
(E) Because the unsupervised party seemed to be

Answer E

20- Poor reading skills among students of inner-city schools have not resulted from failures in
teaching but insufficiently supportive home environments.

(A) not resulted from failures in teaching but

(B) resulted not from failures in teaching but from

(C) resulted from failures not in teaching but

 (D) resulted from failures not in teaching but have stemmed from

(E) resulted not from failures in teaching but have stemmed from

Answer B

21- A male musician can find a career as a solo performer, an orchestra member, or a music teacher
after he graduates from college with a degree in music, depending on his talent.

(A) A male musician can find a career as a solo performer, an orchestra member, or a music
teacher after he graduates from college with a degree in music, depending on his talent.

(B) After graduating from college with a degree in music, depending on his talent, a male
musician can find a career as a solo performer, an orchestra member, or a music teacher.

(C) After graduating from college with a degree in music, a male musician’s talent will determine
if he can find a career as a solo performer, an orchestra member, or a music teacher.

(D) Talent determines whether a male musician, after graduating from college with a degree in
music, can find a career as a solo performer, an orchestra member, or a music teacher.

(E) The talent of a male musician, after graduating from college with a degree in music, will
determine whether he can find a career as a solo performer, an orchestra member, or a music
teacher.

Answer D

To witness the atrocious conditions suffered by abandoned children in Chinese orphanages is to

see the inhumanity of the Communist government’s one-child policy.

(A) To witness
(B) Witnessing
(C) Having witnessed
(D) Once one witnesses
(E) To have witnessed

Answer A

22- The weather predictions delivered on television are usually reliable, but winds, storms that
could not be foreseen, and ocean currents often cause much more extreme weather conditions
than they had expected.
 (A) storms that could not be foreseen, and ocean currents often cause much more extreme
weather conditions than they had

(B) storms that cannot be foreseen, and ocean currents often cause much more extreme
weather conditions than

(C) unforeseeable storms, and ocean currents are the cause of much more extreme weather
conditions than they had

(D) storms that are not foreseeable, and ocean currents often cause much more extreme
weather conditions than they had

(E) unforeseeable storms, and ocean currents often cause much more extreme weather
conditions than they had

Answer B

23- The great directors that create cult favorites are similar to the world-class conductors
directing orchestras; both are critical in molding the talents of many individuals
into a cohesive and beautiful form.

(A)the world-class conductors directing

(B) the world-class conductor which directs
(C) world-class conductors who direct
(D) ones to direct the world-class conductors
(E) ones used in directing the world-class conductors

Answer C

24- It may someday be feasible to try to retrieve organisms from tiny undersea vents, but at the
present time submersibles require such thick walls to withstand the high pressure that it is
impossible.

(A) It may someday be feasible to try to retrieve organisms from tiny undersea vents

(B) Someday, it may be feasible to try and retrieve organisms from tiny undersea vents

(C) Trying to retrieve organisms out of tiny undersea vents may someday be feasible

(D) To try for the retrieval of organisms out of tiny undersea vents may someday be feasible
 (E) Retrieving organisms out of tiny undersea vents may be feasible to try someday

Answer A

25- In a recent survey, Physical Fitness Weekly found that people exercising daily consider
themselves no healthier than do people exercising three to five times a week.

(A) no healthier than do people exercising

(B) not any healthier than do people exercising
(C) not any healthier than do people who exercise
(D) no healthier than are people who are exercising
(E) not as healthy as are people who exercise

Answer A

26- Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce, Senator Bailey believes
that the laws are still practical, on the basis that child abductions should be prevented.

(A) on the basis that child abductions should be prevented

(B) on the grounds of preventing child abductions alone

(C) solely in that child abductions should be prevented

(D) while the abductions of children should be prevented

(E) if only because abductions of children should be prevented

Answer A

27- The ways children adapt to new situations tell psychologists more about how they absorb
information than the children’s I.Q.s.

(A) how they absorb information than

(B) how one absorbs information than
(C) how children absorb information than do
(D) absorbing information than
(E) their information absorption than do

Answer C
 28- During the internet boom in the 1990's, even a relatively small move in the tech market fooled
many investors having bought on rumor, they had to sell, and the dumping of stock quickly
revealed how over valued many of the companies were.

a) investors having bought on rumor, they had to sell, and

b) investors who had bought on rumor, having had to sell,
c) investors who had bought on rumor; they had to sell, and
d) investors, those who had bought on rumor; these investors had to sell, and
e) investors, who, having bought on rumor and having to sell,

Answer C

29- Touching on subjects like greed and corruption in corporate America and delivering a scathing
condemnation of contemporary capitalism, the novel will depict one blue-collar man’s attempts
to succeed in the business world.

(A) the novel will depict

(B) the novel shall depict
(C) there will be a novel depicting
(D) it is a novel that depicts
(E) it will be a novel that depicts

Answer A

30- Of all the vast tides of migration that have swept through history, maybe none is more
concentrated as the wave that brought 12 million immigrant onto American shores in little more
than three decades.
a) Maybe none is more concentrated as
b) It may be that none is more concentrated as
c) Perhaps it is none that is more concentrated than
 d) Maybe it is none that was more concentrated than
e) Perhaps none was more concentrated than

ANSWER (E) Easy

31- The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word “natural” to foods that
do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or nothing that has been
synthesized.
a) Or nothing that has been
b) Or that has been
c) And nothing that is
d) Or anything that has been
e) And anything

ANSWER (D) Easy

32- Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the law of physics, would
appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the
water as a person standing on land.
a) Water as a
b) Water as to a
c) Water; just as it would to a
d) Water, as it would to the
e) Water; just as to the

ANSWER (B) Easy

33- By 1940, the pilot Jacqueline Cochran held seventeen official national and international speed
records, and she earned them at a time when aviation was still so new for many of the planes
she flew to be of dangerously experimental design.
a) and she earned them at a time when aviation was still so new for many of the
planes she flew to be
b) earning them at a time that aviation was still so new for many of the planes she
flew to be
 c) earning these at a time where aviation was still so new that many of the planes
she flew were
d) earned at a time in which aviation was still so new that many of the planes she
flew were
e) earned at a time when aviation was still so new that many of the planes she
flew were

ANSWER (E) Medium

34- Dressed as a man and using the same Robert Shurtleff, Deborah Sampson, the first woman to
draw a soldier’s pension, joined the Continental Army in 1782 at the age of 22, was injured three
times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had become too ill to serve.
a) 22, was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had
become
b) 22, was injured three times, while being discharged in 1783 because she had
become
c) 22, and was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783, being
d) 22, injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she was
e) 22,having been injured three times and discharged in 1783, being

ANSWER (A) Easy

35- In ancient Thailand, much of the local artisans’ creative energy was expended for the creation of
Buddha images and when they constructed and decorated the temples that enshrined them.
a) Much of the local artisans’ creative energy was expended for the creation of Buddha
images and when they constructed and decorated the temples that enshrined them.
b) much of the local artisans’ creative energy was expended on the creation of Buddha
images and on constructed and decorated of the temples in which they were
enshrined.
c) much of the local artisans’ creative energy was expended on the creation of Buddha
images as well as constructing and decoration of the temples in which they were
enshrined
 d) creating images of Buddha accounted for much of the local artisans’ creative energy,
and also constructing and decorating the temples enshrined them
e) creation of Buddha images accounted for much of the local artisans’ creative energy, as
well as construction and decoration of the temples that enshrined them

ANSWER (B) Medium

36- Many house builders offer rent-to-buy programs that enable a family with insufficient savings
for a conventional down payment to be able to move into new housing and to apply part of the
rent to a purchase later.
a) programs that enable a family with insufficient savings for a conventional down
payment to be able to move into new housing and to apply
b) programs that enable a family with insufficient savings for a conventional down
payment to move into new housing and to apply
c) programs; that enable a family with insufficient savings for a conventional down
payment to move into new housing, to apply
d) programs, which enables a family with insufficient savings for a conventional
down payment to move into new housing, applying
e) programs, which enable a family with insufficient savings for a conventional
down payment to be able to move into new housing, applying

ANSWER (B) Medium

37- The 32 species that make up the dolphin family are closely related to whales and in fact include
the animal known as the killer whale, which can grow to be 30 feet long and is famous for its
aggressive hunting pods.
a) include the animal known as the killer whale, which can grow to be 30 feet long
and is
b) include the animal known as the killer whale, which can growing as big as 30
feet long and
c) include the animal known as the killer whale, growing up to 30 feet long and
being
 d) includes the animal known as the killer whale, which can grow as big as 30 feet
long and is
e) includes the animal known as the killer whale, which can grow to be 30 feet long
and it is

ANSWER (A) Medium

38- Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted
in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he
stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.
a) Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of
work both rooted
b) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that
was rooted both
c) jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work
rooted
d) jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was
rooted
e) jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted
both

ANSWER (D) Hard

39- A proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage poachers; the
question is whether tourist will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their
horns are trimmed.
a) whether tourist will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after
their horns are
b) whether tourist will continue to visit game parks to see one once their horns
are
c) whether tourist will continue to visit game parks to see rhinoceroses once the
animals’ horns have been
 d) if tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses once the
animals’ horns are
e) if tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one after the animals’ horns
have been

ANSWER (C) Medium

40- recently physicians have determined that stomach ulcers are not caused by stress, alcohol, or
rich foods, but a bacterium that dwells in the mucous lining of the stomach
a) not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but
b) not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but are by
c) caused not by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but by
d) caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but
e) caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but are by

ANSWER (C) Easy

41- As rainfall began to decrease in the Southwest about the middle of the twelfth century, most of
the join other clans whose access to water was less limited.
a) whose access to water was less limited
b) where there was access to water was less limited
c) where they had less limited water access
d) with less limitations on water access
e) having less limitations to water access

ANSWER (A) Medium

42- Authoritative parents are more likely than permissive parents to have children who as
adolescents are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.
a) Authoritative parents are more likely than permissive parents to have children
who as adolescents are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly
independent
 b) Authoritative parents who are more likely than permissive parents to have
adolescents children that are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly
independent
c) Children of Authoritative parents, rather than permissive parents, are the more
likely to be self-confident, high in self-esteem, and to be responsibly
independent as adolescents.
d) Children whose parents are authoritative rather than being permissive, are
more likely to have self-confidence, a high self-esteem, and be responsibly
independent when they are an adolescent.
e) Rather than permissive parents, the children of authoritative parents are the
more likely to have self-confidence, a high self-esteem, and to be responsibly
independent as an adolescent.

ANSWER (A) Medium

43- Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, excepting for the domains of administration
and teaching, the English language was never really spoken on the island.
a) excepting for
b) except in
c) but except in
d) but excepting for
e) with the expectation of

ANSWER (C) Easy

44- George Sand (Aurore Lucile Dupin) was one of the first European Writers to consider the rural
poor to be legitimate subject for literature and portray these with sympathy and respect in her
novels.
a) to be legitimate subject for literature and portray these
b) Should be legitimate subjects for literature and portray these
c) as being legitimate subjects for literature and portray them
 d) as if they were legitimate subjects for literature and portray them
e) legitimate subjects for literature and to portray them

ANSWER (E) Medium

45- Today, because of improvements in agricultural technology, the same amount of acreage
produces double the apples that it has in 1910.
a) double the apples that it has
b) twice as many apples as it did
c) as much as twice the apples it has
d) two times as many apples as there where
e) a doubling of the apples that it did

ANSWER (B) Easy

46- In no other historical sighting did Halley’s Comet cause such a worldwide sensation as did its
return in 1910-1911.
a) did its return in 1910-1911
b) had its 1910-1911 return
c) in its return of 1910-1911
d) its return of 1910-1911 did
e) its return in 1910-1911

ANSWER (C) Easy

47- Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the size of the 6-mile-wide
asteroid that eradicated the dinosaurs has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is
evidence of the earliest known asteroid impact on Earth.
a) has been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus is
b) has been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus
c) have been dated to be 3.47 billion years old and thus are
 d) have been dated as being 3.47 billion years old and thus
e) have been dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus are

ANSWER (E) Medium

48- In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vintners have cut prices; their wines have been
priced to sell, and they are.
a) have been priced to sell, and they are
b) are priced to sell, and they have
c) are priced to sell, and they do
d) are been priced to sell, and have
e) had been priced to sell, and they have

ANSWER: C Medium

49- She was less successful after she had emigrated to New York compared to her native Germany,
photographer Lotte Jacobi nevertheless earned a small group of discerning admirers, and her
photographs were eventually exhibited in prestigious galleries across the United States.
a) She was less successful after she had emigrated to New York compared to
b) Being less successful after she had emigrated to New York as compared to
c) less successful after she had emigrated to New York than she had been
d) Although She was less successful after emigrating to New York compared to
e) She had been less successful after emigrating to New York than in

ANSWER (C) Hard