Sentence Correction Drill #14

1. This basic document is stating the liberties guaranteed to the English people, the Magna Carta, signed in 1215 by England's King John, proclaims rights that have formed the foundation of the constitutions of every English-speaking nation.

A. This basic document is stating
B. This basic document states
C. A basic document, it states
D. A basic document that states
E. A basic document, it stated

2. Inside famed actor Lily Langtry's private railroad car were a drawing room with a piano, bath fixtures of silver, and there were draperies trimmed with Brussels lace.

A. there were draperies trimmed with Brussels lace
B. draperies trimmed with Brussels lace
C. trimmed with Brussels lace were draperies
D. the draperies were trimmed with Brussels lace
E. draperies trimmed with Brussels lace were there

3. Samuel Adams was by no means the first American to espouse the democratic cause, but he has been the first who conceived the party machinery that made it practical.

A. has been the first who conceived
B. had been the first who conceived
C. was the first having conceived
D. was the first to conceive
E. having been the first to conceive

4. The plans were made too hastily, without enough thought behind it.

A. too hastily, without enough thought behind it
B. too hasty, without enough thought behind it
C. too hastily, without enough thought behind them
D. too hasty, and there is not enough thought behind them
E. too hastily, and there is not enough thought behind it

5. Many psychologists do not use hypnosis in their practices, it is because they know very little about it and are wary of it as a result.

A. practices, it is because they know very little about it and are wary of it as a result
B. practices because they know very little about it and are therefore wary of it
C. practices for the reason that they know very little about it, with resulting wariness
D. practices because of knowing very little about it and therefore they are wary of it
E. practices, their knowledge of it being very little results in wariness of it

6. No two of the specimens was sufficiently alike to warrant them being called members of a single species.

A. was sufficiently alike to warrant them being called
B. was sufficiently alike to warrant the calling of them
C. was sufficiently alike to warrant their being called
D. were sufficiently alike to warrant the calling of them
E. were sufficiently alike to warrant calling them

7. My grandson thinks he can cook better than any other person at the fair; and he has the blue ribbons to prove it.

A. My grandson thinks he can cook better than any other person at the fair; and he
B. My grandson thinks he can cook better than any other person at the fair, and he
C. My grandson thinks he can cook better than any person at the fair, consequently he
D. To think he can cook better than any other person at the fair, my grandson
E. Thinking he can cook better than any other person at the fair, my grandson

8. Differing only slightly from the Greeks were the Roman theaters, which were often freestanding rather than part of a hillside.

A. Differing only slightly from the Greeks were the Roman theaters, which
B. Differing only slightly from Greek theaters, Roman theaters
C. Differing only in the slightest from the Greeks were the Roman theaters, which
D. The Greeks differed only slightly from the Romans, they
E. The Greek theaters differed from the Roman theaters only slightly, where they

9. When chronological order is followed too mechanically, they are obscuring rather than clarifying important relationships.

A. When chronological order is followed too mechanically, they are obscuring rather than clarifying important relationships.
B. When chronological order is followed too mechanically, it obscures rather than clarifying important relationships.
C. Chronological order, if too mechanically followed, obscures rather than it clarifies important relationships.
D. Chronological order, if followed too mechanically, obscures rather than clarifies important relationships.
E. If you follow a too mechanical chronological order, it obscures rather than clarifies important relationships.

10. Small marine crustaceans known as krill are often fed to farm animals, but there is not much human consumption.

A. animals, but there is not much human consumption
B. animals, but consumption is not done much by people
C. animals but are rarely eaten by people
D. animals, but eating them is rarely done by humans
E. animals, but among people there is not much consumption

11. The educator's remarks stressed that well-funded literacy programs are needed if everyone is to gain the skills required for survival in society.

A. that well-funded literacy programs are needed if everyone is to gain
B. that well-funded literacy programs needed in gaining
C. there is a need of well-funded literacy programs for everyone will gain
D. a need for well-funded literacy programs and everyone will gain
E. why well-funded literacy programs being necessary for everyone in gaining

12. The Portuguese musical tradition known as fado, or "fate," has been called the Portuguese blues because of their songs that bemoan someone's misfortune, especially the loss of romantic love.

A. of their songs that bemoan someone's
B. of their songs bemoaning their
C. its songs bemoan
D. the songs that bemoaned
E. of how it bemoans their

13. The sales assistant arranged the gems on the counter, he proceeded to tell us about the origins of each stone.

A. The sales assistant arranged the gems on the counter, he
B. The gems, which were arranged on the counter by the sales assistant, who
C. The gems were first arranged on the counter by the sales assistant, then
D. After arranging the gems on the counter, the sales assistant
E. The sales assistant, having arranged the gems on the counter, he