IB English Literature Test Prep - Question List

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31. 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.
32. Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?
  1. Don’t loose your fighting
  2. spirit, not even if the bookies
  3. have you down as a
  4. serious underdog.
33. 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 subject/verb agreement.
34. Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?
  1. During the arraignment
  2. the witness’s bizarre speech
  3. and disassembling left us
  4. at a loss as to what had happened.
35. Which section of the following passage needs to be edited for incorrect spelling, incorrect grammar, inappropriate word choice or wordiness?
  1. In view of the fact that his
  2. face was clearly visible on
  3. the security cameras, everyone
  4. assumed he would be found guilty.

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