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HiSET Language Arts - Writing Exam Prep - Question List

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16. Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?
  1. For all intensive purposes,
  2. there is no difference between
  3. using cake mix and
  4. baking a cake from scratch.
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17. Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?
  1. Many Southerners, especially Georgians,
  2. still have mixed feelings about
  3. General Sherman’s March to the Sea,
  4. which ravished Atlanta and other cities.
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18. Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?
  1. The human resources department
  2. disperses each of our salaries
  3. on the first and third
  4. Friday of each month.
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19. Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?
  1. Many people thought
  2. of the priest as kind and generous,
  3. and a few people thought
  4. of him as discrete.
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20. 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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