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136. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

"Tom Brady is one of the NFL quarterbacks who has won more than one Super Bowl."
  1. Insert a comma after quarterbacks.
  2. Lowercase Super Bowl.
  3. Change has to have.
  4. Fix the parallel structure.
137. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

"He was honest, hardworking and a regular customer at the neighborhood pub."
  1. Change neighborhood to neighbourhood.
  2. Insert a comma after hardworking.
  3. Change hardworking to hard working.
  4. Fix the parallel structure.
138. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

"The incumbent senator was afraid of losing his seat; he took a no-holes-barred approach to the campaign."
  1. Capitalize senator.
  2. Remove the hyphens from no-holes-barred.
  3. Change no-holes-barred to no-holds-barred.
  4. Change the semicolon to a comma.
139. 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 the subject-verb agreement.
140. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

"Even though he couldn’t afford to buy it, Chris convinced the dealer to let him test drive a brand new Cadillac."
  1. Lowercase Cadillac.
  2. Change test drive to test-drive.
  3. Change the comma to a semicolon.
  4. Move the beginning clause to the end.

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