Sentence Correction Drill #8

1. Failing to anticipate the sharp downturn in the economy, millions of dollars were lost through the investment fund's managers' slowness to act.

A. millions of dollars were lost through the investment fund's managers' slowness to act
B. millions of dollars were lost due to the slowness of the investment fund's managers to act
C. the investment fund's managers were slow to act, millions of dollars were lost as a result
D. the investment fund's managers were slow to act and thus lost millions of dollars
E. the investment fund lost millions of dollars because its managers acted too slowly

2. Most often defenders of art have justified its existence with their pointing out a function that nothing but art itself could perform.

A. with their pointing out a function that nothing but art itself could perform
B. by them pointing out a function that only art could perform
C. through the pointing out of a function performed by art alone
D. by pointing to some function that art alone can perform
E. through their having pointed to a function performed by art itself

3. Industrial growth that was being stifled by the country's dictatorship, but now they are developing their full economic potential.

A. Industrial growth that was being stifled by the country's dictatorship, but now they are developing their full economic potential.
B. The dictatorship had stifled industrial growth, but the country is now developing their full economic potential.
C. Industrial growth was stifled by the country's dictatorship, and so now they are developing their full economic potential.
D. Though the dictatorship had stifled industrial growth, the country is now developing its full economic potential.
E. Now developing their full economic potential, the country's dictatorship had stifled industrial growth.

4. Looking down through the boat's glass bottom, a school of yellow fish was seen swimming along with the turtles.

A. a school of yellow fish was seen
B. a school of yellow fish were seen
C. we saw a school of yellow fish
D. we seen a school of yellow fish
E. yellow fish in schools are seen

5. A radio system consists of a means of transforming sounds into electromagnetic waves and of transmitting those waves through space; after this those waves must be transformed back into sounds.

A. waves and of transmitting those waves through space; after this those waves must be transformed
B. waves, transmitting the waves through space, and transforming them
C. waves, of transmitting them through space, and then the translation of them
D. waves and of transmitting them through space; after this the waves have to be translated
E. waves, of the transmitting of those waves through space and of translating same

6. It underlies the poem that human beings are free to choose and may be blamed for their choices.

A. It underlies the poem
B. In the poem, they assumed
C. In the poem, a basic assumption which is made is
D. It is an assumption that underlies the poem
E. The basic assumption of the poem is

7. The modern city may not have new citadels or cathedrals, but there is a great many new office buildings and freeways.

A. but there is a great many new office buildings and freeways
B. but it does have a great many new office buildings and freeways
C. but a great many new office buildings and freeways
D. although many new office buildings and freeways are there
E. although a great many new office buildings and freeways are seen

8. The remains of the Apatosaurus provide evidence of there being giants existing on Earth during the late Jurassic period.

A. of there being giants existing
B. of there having been giants existing
C. of there existing giants
D. that giants have existed
E. that giants existed

9. Farming in that area of the country is inefficient because of their farm machinery shortage and that they lack the knowledge to operate it.

A. because of their farm machinery shortage and that they lack the
B. in that they have a shortage of farm machinery and a lack of
C. because of the shortage of farm machinery and their lacking the
D. in that there is both a shortage of farm machinery as well as a lack of
E. because of the shortage of farm machinery and the lack of

10. The most popular painting in the exhibit of works by local artists was done by a seventy-year-old woman, who painted an exquisite self-portrait of herself.

A. was done by a seventy-year-old woman, who painted an exquisite self-portrait of herself
B. was an exquisite self-portrait of a seventy-year-old woman, who painted herself
C. was an exquisite self-portrait of a seventy-year-old woman
D. was done by a seventy-year-old woman, and it is her own exquisite self-portrait
E. was by a seventy-year-old woman, being an exquisite self-portrait

11. The tiles are sorted not only by their surface appearance but also according to their hardness and their capacity of conducting heat.

A. according to their hardness and their capacity of conducting heat
B. according to their hardness and of their heat-conducting capacity
C. by their hardness and if they have the capacity for heat conduction
D. by their hardness and their capacity for conducting heat
E. by their hardness and capacity in heat conduction

12. Radio frequencies have to be allocated to users so that one transmission will not interfere with another.

A. one transmission will not interfere with another
B. each transmission cannot interfere with another's
C. transmitting them will not interfere with one another
D. no transmission is interfered with by another
E. no one transmission would have interference with the other