Sentence Correction Drill #2

1. Britain's first Ice Age cave art - faint engravings of birds, ibexes, and a wild ox - were a recent discovery for a team of archaeologists in a cave at Creswell Crags in central England.

A. were a recent discovery for
B. were recently discovered by
C. was a recent discovery that
D. was recently discovered by
E. recently discovered by

2. Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, many businesses remained open on Christmas, and so many people doing their Christmas shopping on Christmas Day that commercial streets in New York City and Philadelphia often were nearly impassable.

A. Christmas, and so many people doing
B. Christmas, and many people doing
C. Christmas, with many people doing
D. Christmas; many people did
E. Christmas; so many people did

3. Before the advent of industrial fishing, some regions of the ocean were too distant or too deep for fishers to reach, with the fish living there to remain untouched.

A. with the fish living there to remain
B. so the fish living there remained
C. so the fish that lived there remaining
D. and so the fish that lived there remaining
E. and so with the fish that lived there remaining

4. Because she believed strongly that education was important for women as for men, Abigail Adams was unhappy that she had not been allowed to receive the classical education accorded to the males of her time.

A. Because she believed strongly that education was
B. Because of believing strongly in education as
C. Believing strongly that education was as
D. In believing strongly in education as
E. While she believed strongly that education was

5. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A. D. 79 sent a column of tephra—dust, smoke, and pumice—nearly seventeen miles into the air so that it covered the city of Pompeii with over eight feet of pumice.

A. so that it
B. and so
C. and
D. and they
E. so that they

6. To survive, the people now known as Paleo-Indians had to be resourceful and resilient, able to survive only if they develop hunting and gathering techniques suited to their changing environments.

A. able to survive only if they develop
B. able to survive only by developing
C. their ability to survive only by developing
D. that they are able to survive only by developing
E. that they were able to survive only if they develop

7. Around 230 million years ago, the west coast of what is now Europe and the bulge of northwestern Africa began to collide slowly with the east coast of North America, the coming together of the landmasses to form the supercontinent Pangea.

A. the coming together of the landmasses to form the supercontinent Pangea
B. the landmasses coming together to form the supercontinent Pangea
C. and with the landmasses coming together to form the supercontinent Pangea
D. the supercontinent Pangea to be formed from the coming together of the landmasses
E. forming the supercontinent Pangea by the landmasses coming together

8. As executives of the newspaper seek to make the paper more competitive and to broaden an advertising base heavily dependent on business-related advertising, they are exploring the addition of a Saturday edition to its weekday schedule.

A. As executives of the newspaper seek to
B. As executives of the newspaper, seeking that they
C. As executives of the newspaper, seeking to
D. With executives of the newspaper seeking to
E. With executives of the newspaper seeking that they

9. Between 1790 and 1860, the United States grew from a small nation of four million people, mostly farmers, and will become one of the world's leading economic powers, with a population of 31 million.

A. and will become
B. and would become
C. so that it will become
D. to become
E. to becoming

10. For tens of millions of years, a wide array of rhinoceros species, from small hippo-like forms and towering giants larger than elephants, existed in forests and grasslands across most of the landmasses of the world.

A. and towering giants larger than elephants, existed
B. and towering giants as large or larger than elephants, existing
C. to towering giants larger than elephants, existing
D. to towering giants larger than elephants, existed
E. to towering giants as large or larger than elephants, existing

11. Beginning in 1285, various commissions were set up in London for addressing the problem of coal smoke, of which complainants said had "infected and corrupted" the air.

A. for addressing the problem of coal smoke, of
B. by addressing the coal smoke problem,
C. to address the problem of coal smoke,
D. to address the problem of coal smoke, of
E. to address the coal smoke problem,

12. Over the years, Cahokia people built more than one hundred earthen mounds of various sizes and functions around six open plazas, some of which remains can still be seen after five hundred years of erosion.

A. some of which remains can still
B. some of the remains of which still to
C. the remains of some, which can still
D. the remains of some of which still to
E. the remains of some of which can still