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Health Occupations Readiness Test Prep

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?

  1. The artichoke dip was the
  2. hit of the party, some people
  3. wondered how much butter
  4. had been mixed into it.
  5. The mediator used some
  6. light humor to try to
  7. diffuse the situation,
  8. but the tension remained.
  9. Tom's stylish friend paid him
  10. a great compliment, saying that
  11. his new jacket complimented
  12. his other clothes perfectly.
  13. All the students agreed that
  14. the calculus midterm exams
  15. were much harder then
  16. they had been expecting.
  17. 'Its not going to
  18. clean up its own mess,"
  19. the man said,
  20. pointing at his neighbor's dog.
Explanation

Answer: B - Corrected version: hit of the party, but some people

A conjunction should be inserted before some. Without the conjunction, this sentence is an example of a comma splice. A comma splice is a construction in which a comma joins two complete sentences without a conjunction. Comma splices are a form of run-on sentence and thus incorrect.

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