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TEAS Nursing School Review Questions

Category - English and Language Usage

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

All the students agreed that
the calculus midterm exams
were much harder then
they had been expecting.

Explanation

Answer: C - Corrected version: were much harder than

Then should be changed to than.Than is used to make comparisons; then is used either to denote when something happens or as a conjunction. If the test is harder than you expected, then you should study harder next time.

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