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

"Only a few areas of the country continue to operate without daylight savings time."
  1. Hyphenate daylight savings.
  2. Change savings to saving.
  3. Capitalize daylight savings.
  4. change to operate to operates.
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157.

Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

"The committee constitutes eleven persons from departments throughout the company."

  1. Change persons to people
  2. Change constitutes to comprises
  3. Change committee to commitee
  4. Remove the word departments
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158. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

"The novel affected great personal growth when I was a teenager; I have recommended it to a large number of teens since then."
  1. Change teenager to teen-ager.
  2. Change the semicolon to a comma.
  3. Change number to amount.
  4. Change affected to effected.
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159. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

"After the closed-door meeting had ended, a few off-hand remarks inferred that I would be passed over for a promotion."
  1. Remove the hyphen from closed-door.
  2. Remove the word over.
  3. Change inferred to implied.
  4. Change the comma to a semicolon.
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160. Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

"Looking at both drafts, the English professor decided that the rough draft was the best version."
  1. Lowercase English.
  2. Change best to better.
  3. Put quotation marks around rough to denote irony.
  4. Fix the misplaced modifier.
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