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Indicate whether the following sentences are correct or incorrect.

These clothes are wet. Please will you wring them out?

Incorrect

Correct

I couldn't tell whether he was joking or not.

Incorrect

Correct

A strong character cannot be taught; it's in the genes.

Incorrect

Correct

His wedding ring was 14-carrot gold.

Incorrect

Correct

The road was lined with fur trees.

Incorrect

Correct

Will you please ask your children to stop bawling in my ear?

Incorrect

Correct

The truck towed away the broken machinery.

Incorrect

Correct

Wheat is the most common serial crop grown in Iowa.

Incorrect

Correct

The reign of Queen Victoria lasted over 60 years.

Incorrect

Correct

Everyone knows what happens if you give a full bottle of coke a vigorous (1) _____ and then unscrew the top. So the children of Benchill primary school in Manchester dived for (2) _____ when visitor Kim Wade flexed her muscles. Wade, head of Manchester Schools Behaviour and Support Service,

(3) _____ the temptation to open the bottle and let the fizz drench the pupils. She had (4) _____ her point; the frothing of the drink was a metaphor for the build-up and explosion of temper.

Benchill’s children were having a session on anger management. There is no (5) _____ that they are any more angry than children at other schools in the city, and the lesson was part of a scheme intended to help children identify and (6) _____ with the rages that life in the classroom and playground can provoke.

(1) _____

shake

stir

rattle

wobble

(2) _____

shelter

cover

safety

protection

(3) _____

denied

rejected

declined

resisted

(4) _____

given

made

scored

won

(5) _____

inclination

receptor

conviction

suggestion

(6) _____

cope

bear

handle

manage

Fashion

Fashion may be said to encompass any of four forms. First, there is a conscious manipulation of dress that (7) _____ for effect, a ‘fashion statement’ or ‘fad’. Second, fashion may designate innovations in dress that are more (8) _____ than simple fads. Some of these changes occur abruptly, whether due to economic fluctuations, or even the sudden (9) _____ of certain materials; other innovations may develop more deliberately. Third is the phenomenon (10) _____ styles in a particular area of dress change swiftly and repeatedly, with the new ones replacing the old in (11) ____ succession. Finally, fashion may refer specifically to the use of such adornments as cosmetics, fragrance and jewellery, whose primary purpose is to enhance a wearer’s

(12) ____ features.

(7) _____

attempts

strives

endeavours

seeks

(8) _____

eternal

perpetual

enduring

continuing

(9) _____

abundance

overload

excess

crop

(10) _____

whereas

whereupon

whereabouts

whereby

(11) _____

prompt

rapid

fast

brisk

(12) _____

naked

raw

commonplace

natural

The next section of the test is qualitative and requires you to explain your responses. Below are 25 sentences, some correct and some incorrect. If you think the sentence is correct, simply type "correct" in the box below it. If the sentence is incorrect, type "incorrect" in the box below it, followed by a brief correction, as per these examples:

Gordon Brown vowed to put his principles into practice by demonstrating his commitment to the environment; consequently, the disappointment was palpable a year ago when he failed to increase taxes on large cars and for passengers on overseas flights.

You don't have to site the origin of the information if you consider this will endanger the source.

The security system is housed in a steel enclosure which can be mounted anywhere within the tractor or trailer. The system cannot be set accidently, and can only be set when the handbrake is set.

The horse or pony you adopt will need to be fed twice everyday, and if stabled, it will need mucking out once a day.

The point is, is that society forbids this type of drastic action to be taken.

Seal shooter Tom Lineham said he was satisfied with the findings, although he felt his organisation could of culled at least 100 more seals without any impact on the herds.

The contractor undertakes to perform such other services as the advertiser may request from time to time, such as, but not limited to, direct mail advertising, publicity and public relations work, and market analysis.