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41.

Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

During the primaries, all three Democratic candidates leveled 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 leveled to levied.
  4. Make this into two separate sentences.
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42. Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A.

Main cash crop for Belize was sugar, but in recent years, citrus fruits have become the leading source of crop income.
  1. Main cash crop
  2. A main cash crop
  3. The main cash crop
  4. An main cash crop
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43. Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A.

Building infrastructure and developing oil reserves is becoming increasingly important to the economy.
  1. is
  2. are
  3. was
  4. were
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44. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

Don’t forget to change your car’s oil every 3000 miles, you risk damaging the engine if you drive without enough oil.
  1. Fix the parallel structure.
  2. Change from second to third person.
  3. Fix the comma splice.
  4. Set off the parenthetical remark with commas.
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45. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

Some people have called for an end to the US boycott of Cuban goods.
  1. Capitalize goods.
  2. Lowercase Cuban.
  3. Switch to passive voice to emphasize the boycott.
  4. Change boycott to embargo.
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