Heat Deaths Highlight the Particular Risks Facing Americans in Manufactured Homes

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Read the complete sentence and notice the subject, verb form, time reference and word order before answering.

1. Question 1 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the sentence that uses inversion appropriately for emphasis.

   1. Rarely people consider homes sources of heat exposure.
   2. Rarely do people consider homes sources of heat exposure.
   3. Rarely people do consider homes sources of heat exposure.
   4. Rarely considered people homes sources of heat exposure.
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   Answer

   Rarely do people consider homes sources of heat exposure.

   Negative-fronted inversion places the auxiliary before the subject.

2. Question 2 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the most precise concessive construction.

   1. Although indoors, protection from heat is not guaranteed.
   2. Although being indoors, protection from heat is not guaranteed.
   3. Although people are indoors, protection from heat is not guaranteed.
   4. Although people indoors, protection from heat is not guaranteed.
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   Answer

   Although people are indoors, protection from heat is not guaranteed.

   “Although” appropriately introduces a contrasting subordinate clause.

3. Question 3 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the grammatically correct cleft sentence.

   1. What the report highlights is the home as a potential hazard.
   2. What highlights the report is the home as a potential hazard.
   3. What the report highlights are the home as a potential hazard.
   4. What the report highlighting is the home as a potential hazard.
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   Answer

   What the report highlights is the home as a potential hazard.

   The cleft structure correctly foregrounds the residential setting.

4. Question 4 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the correct modal perfect construction.

   1. Warnings may overlooked domestic exposure.
   2. Warnings may have overlook domestic exposure.
   3. Warnings may have overlooked domestic exposure.
   4. Warnings might overlooking domestic exposure.
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   Answer

   Warnings may have overlooked domestic exposure.

   “May have overlooked” expresses a plausible past omission.

5. Question 5 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the sentence with correct parallel structure.

   1. The report identifies a group, clarifies risk, and challenges assumptions.
   2. The report identifies a group, clarifying risk, and challenges assumptions.
   3. The report identifying a group, clarifies risk, and challenges assumptions.
   4. The report identifies a group, clarifies risk, and challenging assumptions.
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   Answer

   The report identifies a group, clarifies risk, and challenges assumptions.

   The coordinated verbs share the same grammatical form.

6. Question 6 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the most appropriate reduced relative clause.

   1. Residents highlighted by the report warrant particular attention.
   2. Residents highlighting by the report warrant particular attention.
   3. Residents were highlighted by the report warrant particular attention.
   4. Residents highlighted the report warrant particular attention.
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   Answer

   Residents highlighted by the report warrant particular attention.

   The participial phrase correctly modifies residents receiving particular attention.

7. Question 7 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the sentence with accurate subject–verb agreement.

   1. The report’s central implication are difficult to ignore.
   2. The report’s central implication is difficult to ignore.
   3. The report’s central implication be difficult to ignore.
   4. The report’s central implication have been difficult to ignore.
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   Answer

   The report’s central implication is difficult to ignore.

   The singular subject “implication” requires “is.”

8. Question 8 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the sentence that correctly uses a mandative subjunctive.

   1. Experts recommend that warnings explicitly address indoor exposure.
   2. Experts recommend that warnings explicitly addresses indoor exposure.
   3. Experts recommend that warnings explicitly addressed indoor exposure.
   4. Experts recommend warnings explicitly addressing indoor exposure must.
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   Answer

   Experts recommend that warnings explicitly address indoor exposure.

   Formal recommendations can take the base verb after “recommend that.”

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