16- _______ sentences have “you” as their implied
subject.
A. Exclamation
B. Imperative
C. Interrogatory
D. Declarative
18- A/an _______ tells us more about a noun or pronoun and must
be placed directly before or directly after the noun or pronoun it refers to.
A. adverbial
B. preposition
C. prepositional phrase
D. appositive
19- Which of the following can enhance your writing?
A. Varying sentence length
B. Making punctuation errors
C. Ignoring the reader
D. Using only one kind of sentence
20- A/an _______ is a word or group of words that renames or
describes a noun or pronoun, as in the sentence, “Carlos, a native of
Argentina, is the new wrestling champion.”
A. compound predicate
B. appositive
C. adverb
D. “-ing” modifier
15- Beginning writers tend to overuse _______, which quickly
become monotonous.
A. long sentences
B. complicated sentences
C. short, simple sentences
D. complex sentences
13- Basic ways to define a word or term include all of the
following except definition by
A. synonym.
B. class.
C. research.
D. negation.
10- _______ paragraphs give readers step-by-step information.
A. Definition
B. Authoritarian
C. Informal
D. Process
6- The two kinds of _______ paragraphs explained in your
textbook are the how-to paragraph and the explanation paragraph.
A. process
B. revision
C. coherent
D. structure
