Sentence Correction Drill #12

1. Adult ladybugs often prey on agricultural or garden pests, causing many fruit growers to consider them among the most beneficial insects.

A. causing many fruit growers to
B. therefore, many fruit growers
C. this causes many fruit growers to
D. which cause many fruit growers to
E. many fruit growers

2. Environmentally hazardous contamination of the water and air is one of the more serious and complex issues facing urban centers in the United States, where they have an effect on public health, property values, and the quality of life is magnified by the density of population.

A. they have an
B. their
C. an
D. it has an
E. its

3. Numismatics, or coin collecting, and becoming popular in the United States around 1857, when the replacement of the large cent by the new flying-eagle cent led enthusiasts to start collecting the earlier coin.

A. and becoming
B. becoming
C. will become
D. became
E. it became

4. Just as his predecessor Mozart, for whom composing music seemed to come easily, Beethoven always struggled to perfect his work.

A. Just as
B. Even though
C. Whereas
D. Unlike with
E. Unlike

5. The Incas kept records with knotted cords called quipus, historians believe they were used to document crop production and to aid in tax collection.

A. historians believe they were used
B. historians believing in its use
C. which historians believe they use
D. which historians believe were used
E. and historians believe it was used

6. While females were not allowed to compete in the Olympic games of ancient Greece; they were not even allowed to watch them.

A. While females were not allowed
B. Even though females were not allowed
C. Females were not allowed
D. They did not allow females
E. With females, they were not allowed

7. In psychological theory, the term social learning is used to describe learning that is influenced by one's environment and not the influence of innate or internal forces.

A. and not the influence of
B. and not, instead,
C. rather than by
D. rather than when it is
E. rather than being influenced due to

8. Giant stars, or those that weigh 100 times what the Sun weighs, are important to galaxies and the universe because with furious combustion, it produces many important elements that form planets and other bodies, including carbon, oxygen, sodium, and neon.

A. because with furious combustion, it produces
B. because their furious combustion produces
C. due to their furious combustion, producing
D. as their furious combustion produced
E. in that with furious combustion, they produced

9. American photographer Annie Leibovitz is renowned for her revealing, eye-catching portraits of celebrities, and characterized by carefully staged settings and the use of vivid primary colors.

A. and
B. and she is
C. each of them are
D. each of which are
E. which are

10. Decorative arts, art forms that have a mainly practical or ornamental purpose, and include ceramics, basketry, furniture making, and glassblowing.

A. and include
B. including
C. includes
D. include
E. which include

11. About 35 percent of the world's orange juice is produced by Florida, compared with Brazil, the world's largest orange producer, which has nearly 50 percent.

A. Brazil, the world's largest orange producer, which has nearly 50 percent
B. Brazil, with nearly 50 percent, it is the world's largest orange producer
C. nearly 50 percent that are produced by Brazil as the world's largest orange producer
D. the production of Brazil, the world's largest orange producer, with nearly 50 percent
E. nearly 50 percent produced by Brazil, the world's largest orange producer

12. Many of blues great Bessie Smith's songs describe the experiences of southern Black migrants, especially the struggles of Black women to adjust to urban life in the northern United States.

A. the struggles of Black women to adjust
B. how Black women struggled at adjusting
C. when it was Black women struggling to adjust
D. Black women, they struggled with adjusting
E. for Black women and struggling to adjust

13. The Bretons who began emigrating to the United States from the Brittany region of France in the early twentieth century were distinguished from other French citizens by their Celtic origin, but about 40 percent of those who emigrated spoke a Celtic language closely related to Welsh.

A. but about 40 percent of those who emigrated spoke
B. about 40 percent of whom spoke
C. about 40 percent of which were speaking
D. with about 40 percent of those who emigrated speaking
E. where 40 percent of them were speaking