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How to approach this practice

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 an appropriate concessive structure.

   1. Although the title mentions Europe, it supplies no precise destination.
   2. Although the title mentions Europe, but it supplies no precise destination.
   3. Although mentioning Europe, no precise destination it supplies.
   4. Although the title mentions Europe, no precise destination supplying.
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   Answer

   Although the title mentions Europe, it supplies no precise destination.

   Although correctly introduces a contrast between the title and missing detail.

2. Question 2 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the grammatically correct inversion after a negative adverbial.

   1. Rarely the package provides practical booking guidance.
   2. Rarely does the package provide practical booking guidance.
   3. Rarely provides the package practical booking guidance does.
   4. Rarely the package does provides practical booking guidance.
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   Answer

   Rarely does the package provide practical booking guidance.

   The negative adverbial requires auxiliary-subject inversion in formal prose.

3. Question 3 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the sentence with correct restrictive relative-clause punctuation.

   1. The timestamp, that records publication, does not date the visit.
   2. The timestamp which records publication, does not date the visit.
   3. The timestamp that records publication does not date the visit.
   4. The timestamp, which records publication does not date the visit.
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   Answer

   The timestamp that records publication does not date the visit.

   The defining clause identifies the timestamp without unnecessary commas.

4. Question 4 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the correct mixed conditional expressing a present consequence of past omission.

   1. If the package had named the destination, readers could assess it now.
   2. If the package named the destination, readers could have assessed it now.
   3. If the package has named the destination, readers could assess it now.
   4. If the package would name the destination, readers could assess it now.
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   Answer

   If the package had named the destination, readers could assess it now.

   The form links a past failure to a present evidential limitation.

5. Question 5 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the most idiomatic formal completion.

   1. The account is reliable insofar as the supplied evidence extends.
   2. The account is reliable insofar the supplied evidence extends.
   3. The account is reliable in so far the supplied evidence extends.
   4. The account is reliable insofar as extending the supplied evidence.
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   Answer

   The account is reliable insofar as the supplied evidence extends.

   “Insofar as” appropriately limits the claim to the evidence available.

6. Question 6 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the sentence with correct parallelism.

   1. The package provides neither a destination nor explaining the treatment.
   2. The package provides neither a destination nor an explanation of the treatment.
   3. The package provides neither identifying a destination nor treatment explanation.
   4. The package provides neither destination nor to explain the treatment.
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   Answer

   The package provides neither a destination nor an explanation of the treatment.

   The coordinated nouns follow the same grammatical pattern.

7. Question 7 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the correct subjunctive construction for a recommendation.

   1. It is essential that editors verify every attributed detail.
   2. It is essential that editors verifies every attributed detail.
   3. It is essential that editors verified every attributed detail.
   4. It is essential that editors will verify every attributed detail.
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   Answer

   It is essential that editors verify every attributed detail.

   Formal mandative clauses use the base verb after “it is essential that.”

8. Question 8 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the sentence with correct placement of the participial phrase.

   1. Published on September 21, the package records no specific destination.
   2. Published on September 21, no specific destination records the package.
   3. The package, published on September 21, recording no destination.
   4. No specific destination, published on September 21, records the package.
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   Answer

   Published on September 21, the package records no specific destination.

   The phrase logically modifies the publication rather than the absent destination.

What to review next

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