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56. Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?
  1. Gabriel went to the public library,
  2. and checked out The Stranger after
  3. being enthralled by an excerpt
  4. in his AP English class.
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57. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

There is a huge amount of people flying in and out of Heathrow Airport every day.
  1. Change is to are.
  2. Lowercase Airport.
  3. Change amount to number.
  4. Change every day to everyday.
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58. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

The Johnsons’s family car was broken into, the window was shattered and the radio was stolen.
  1. Change Johnsons’s to Johnsons’.
  2. Fix the parallel structure.
  3. Change the sentence to past perfect tense.
  4. Fix subject/verb agreement.
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59. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

Rainstorms are an every day occurrence in most of the Northwest US.
  1. Lowercase Northwest.
  2. Remove the dangling modifier.
  3. Change every day to everyday.
  4. Change rainstorms to rain storms.
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60. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

During the primaries, all three Democratic candidates levied serious allegations against each other, only to retract them during the general election.
  1. Change retract to retrack.
  2. Change primaries to primarys.
  3. Change levied to leveled.
  4. Make this into two separate sentences.
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