GED Exam Prep: Writing - Question List

Select how would you like to study

6.

Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

"Neither side was completely happy with the mediator’s judgment, but they agreed to abide by it nonetheless."

  1. Change mediator to arbitrator.
  2. Change neither to none.
  3. Change judgment to judgement.
  4. Change nonetheless to irregardless.
7.

Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A.

"A key feature of the plan focused on protecting the monarch butterflies’ habitat."

  1. A key feature of the plan focused
  2. The plan focused
  3. Features of the plan focus
  4. Focused on the plan
8.

Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?

"The boy is the spitting image of his father, differing with him only in height and the depth of his voice."

  1. The boy is the spitting image
  2. of his father, differing with him
  3. only in height and the depth
  4. of his voice.
9.

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.
10.

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.

Select how would you like to study