Standard English & Conventions
1. Tarawa, with a population of roughly 30,000 people, _______ home to an impressive 29 percent of Kiribati's total population.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Subject-verb agreement. "Tarawa" is singular, so the singular verb "is" is correct.
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Standard English & Conventions
2. Featuring jagged peaks of black ink surrounded by hazy swirls of blue and green paint, Zhang Daqian's 1983 painting Panorama of Mount Lu is inspired by the tradition of qinglü shanshui, a type of Chinese landscape painting _______ by the use of blue and green hues to depict ethereal, otherworldly landscapes.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Using Participle as an adjective. The past participle "characterized" correctly modifies the noun phrase.
Question 2 of 10
Standard English & Conventions
3. Nebraska governor _____ the first woman to serve in that role in the state's history− took office on January 9, 1987.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Punctuation of non-essential elements. Commas should enclose the non-essential appositive.
Question 3 of 10
Standard English & Conventions
4. The Eiteljorg Museum counts pieces by Claus in _______ impressive collection of Native artworks.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Pronoun antecedent agreement. "Its" refers to the museum's collection.
Question 4 of 10
Standard English & Conventions
5. Gitlin's use of the term referenced TV studios' practice of repackaging successful narrative formulas as new _______ even shows that varied only slightly from other shows still attracted sizeable audiences.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Using a semicolon to separate independent clauses.
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Standard English & Conventions
6. Kati Horna's 1938 photograph "Stairway to the Cathedral" is collected in the 2021 exhibition The New-Woman Behind the _______ works by artists from over twenty countries, the exhibition showcases the diverse, innovative, often aesthetically daring work of female photographers from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Placing Modifier. The sentence begins with a complete clause followed by a modifier.
Question 6 of 10
Standard English & Conventions
7. Nevertheless, the guide soon grew in scope and _________ its modest French eateries were replaced with some of the most esteemed restaurants from around the world.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Punctuating compound sentence. Use a comma before "and" to join two independent clauses.
Question 7 of 10
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8. Many of whom, like neuroscience and biophysics expert Elba Serrano, ______ this mechanism to better understand how the body's neurological and biomechanical systems interact.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Subject-verb agreement. "Many" is plural, so the verb must also be plural ("study").
Question 8 of 10
Standard English & Conventions
9. Olga Shurchkov of Wellesley College studies worker ________ other researchers investigate areas such as market behavior and consumer behavior.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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Using a semicolon to separate independent clauses + final non-essential expression.
Question 9 of 10
Standard English & Conventions
10. The book wasn't written solely by ___ other authors, such as Carolyn Servid and Barry Lopez, also contributed essays.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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SAT Trick with "however". Use commas around transitional phrases like "however".
Question 10 of 10
