Multiple choice

1. Which one of the following words is a verb?

A. Maintenance 

B. Manufacture 

C. Cruel

D. However

2. Of the following approaches to avoiding sexism in business and

technical writing, which one is likely to be most effective?

A. Avoid references to individuals.

B. Apologize for using he as a generic pronoun.

C. Use plural nouns and pronouns.

D. Use the neutral pronouns it or its.

3. What, if anything, should you do to correct the following sentence?

Our principal problem was that we had less people than necessary to obtain optimum

benefits from the program.

A. Nothing. The sentence is correct as it stands. 

B. Change principal to principle. 

C. Change less to fewer.

D. Change optimum to maximum.

4. In the sentence, "The report arrived too late to be of any value to me," which word is a

pronoun?

A. report 

B. late 

C. value

D. me