Sentence Correction Drill #3

1. The company announced that it would close all 53 of their commercial banking branches and they are to lay off 850 people.

A. their commercial banking branches and they are to lay
B. their commercial banking branches and laying
C. its commercial banking branches and laying
D. its commercial branches and to lay
E. its commercial banking branches and lay

2. Banjo Peterson celebrated shearers, drovers, and life in the outback with poetry, it still defines how Australians see themselves—and how the world sees Australia.

A. poetry, it still defines
B. poetry, still defining
C. poetry, still it defines
D. poetry that still defines
E. poetry and still defining

3. Because North America is the only landmass in the world both with a wide base in the subarctic and mountain ranges running in a north-south direction, the continent is a place of climatic extremes.

A. both with a wide base in the subarctic and
B. both having a wide base in the subarctic and with
C. having both a wide base in the subarctic and with
D. with both a wide base in the subarctic and
E. with both a wide base in the subarctic and with

4. Last year, the average salary of a first-time teacher was $29,564 annually, increasing 3.2 percent over the previous year.

A. teacher was $29,564 annually, increasing 3.2 percent over
B. teacher was $29, 564 annually, an increase of 3.2 percent over that of
C. teacher was $29,564, an increase of 3.2 percent from
D. teacher, $29,564, was an increase of 3.2 percent for
E. teacher, $29,564, increasing 3.2 percent from that of

5. With 12 national forests, Idaho is at the center of the battle between those who want to profit from federal timberlands or the ones wanting them to be saved.

A. or the ones wanting them to be saved
B. and the ones wanting that they are saved
C. and those who want to save them
D. as well as others, wanting to save them
E. as well as those who want that it be saved

6. A year after the country's biggest blackout, watchdog groups are still voicing concern over the fact that there are rules to govern the reliability of electric service, and are still voluntary.

A. the fact that there are rules to govern the reliability of electric service, and
B. the fact that rules governing the reliability of electric service
C. the fact of rules that govern the reliability of electric service, and
D. the rules to govern the reliability of electric service, they
E. the rules governing the reliability of electric service, that they

7. A technique known as silicon nano surgery, routinely used at computer chip factories around the world, have transformed the way they develop modern computer chips.

A. have transformed the way they develop modern computer chips
B. having transformed their development of modern computer chips
C. it has transformed the way to develop modern computer chips
D. has transformed the way modern computer chips are developed
E. has been to transform the way modern computer chips are developed

8. In 1970, the United States government identified as major pollutants carbon monoxide, ozone, and lead, and it had set goals for limiting those pollutants based on a scientific determination of the risk that each pollutant posed to human health.

A. lead, and it had set
B. lead, and which set
C. lead, and to set
D. lead, and set
E. lead and setting

9. The program, and they consider it a model of health care that can be improved, so far involves patients with two diseases: diabetes and congestive heart failure.

A. and they consider it a model of health care that
B. considered by them to be a model for health care, which
C. which, considered as a model of health care and how it
D. which is considered a model for how health care
E. which they consider a model for health care, it

10. The state is spending $8.6 billion to renovate, build additions, and for upgrading many of its educational facilities.

A. build additions, and for upgrading
B. build additions to, and upgrade
C. build additions, and for an upgrade to
D. building additions to, and upgrading the
E. building additions, and to upgrade

11. A new deep-sea research vessel will be able to carry people to 99 percent of the ocean floor, it dives deeper than any such vessel has previously been able to.

A. floor, it dives
B. floor, which dives
C. floor, diving
D. floor, and they can dive
E. floor, where it can dive

12. Foot races of varying distances were the first and, for many years beginning in 776 B.C.E., as the only Olympic event.

A. as the only Olympic event
B. it was the only Olympic event
C. only they were Olympic events
D. only Olympic event
E. the only Olympic events