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Sentence Correction

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This question presents a sentence, part of which or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part.

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This question presents a sentence, part of which or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

This question tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. In choosing your answer, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words, and sentence construction. Choose the answer that produces the most effective sentence; this answer should be clear and exact, without awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, or grammatical error.

Sample Question

While larger banks can afford to maintain their own data-processing operations, many smaller regional and community banks are finding that the cost associated with upgrading data-processing equipment and with the development and maintenance of new products and technical staff are prohibitive.

  1. cost associated with
  2. costs associated with
  3. costs arising from
  4. cost off
  5. costs of

Answer: B

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Sentence Correction

Parallelism

Dangling or Misplaced Modifier

Subject Verb Agreement

Nouns and Pronouns

Use of Tenses

Idioms

Voices

Usage

Ambiguity Wordiness and Redundancy

Punctuation

Adjective and Adverbs

Articles

Prepositions

Verbs

Sentence Jumbles

Direct and Indirect Speech

Comparisons