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ENC 101 ENGLISH COMPOSITION

FINAL EXAM

Instructions: Complete all answers on the answer sheet. Review and follow directions carefully. Good luck!

TOPIC: VERBS

All but one of the following sentences contain a mistake involving (1) standard English or irregular verb forms, (2) subject-verb agreement, or (3) consistent verb tense. Cross out the incorrect verb and write the correct form in the space provided. Mark the sentence that uses verbs correctly with a C.

______________ 1. Dot searched for the twenty-dollar bill she had hid somewhere in her purse.

______________ 2. Hovering overhead at the scene of the accident was several traffic helicopters.

______________ 3. When I caught my little boy pulling the dog’s ears, I sat him down and talk to him about being kind to animals.

______________ 4. Somebody in the dorm always keeps loud music playing all night long.

______________ 5. The giant-size box of Raisinets sells for four dollars at the theater’s candy counter.

______________ 6. This coat and scarf looks very warm, but the wind seems to go right through them.

______________ 7. Wanda swabbed the inside of her cheek with a Q-tip, smears the cells on a glass slide, and then looked at them through the microscope.

______________ 8. Last August, Carmen taked his family on a long car trip to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon.

______________ 9. When smoke spilled from the front of the overheated car, the driver opened up the hood and then jumps back as steam billowed out.

______________ 10. The class clown had went too far, and the students waited to see what the teacher would do.

TOPIC: PUNCTUATION MARKS

Each of the sentences below contains an error in punctuation. Refer to the box below to write, in the space provided, the letter identifying the error. Then correct the error.

a. missing comma b. missing apostrophe

c. missing semicolon d. missing quotation marks

_____ 1. When Karen’s mother returned to college this year the entire family had to help out with the housework.

_____ 2. The cashier testified that the robbers face had been covered with a nylon stocking.

_____ 3. Arlene just received a promotion she’s now an assistant buyer for the sports shop in the mall.

_____ 4. Im thinking about calling the humane society, for our neighbor leaves his dog outside in the most bitterly cold weather.

_____ 5. President Coolidge, who was known as “Silent Cal” didn’t talk much and slept eleven hours a day.

_____ 6. My dad’s favorite saying is, Don’t pull tomorrow’s cloud over today’s sunshine.”

_____ 7. Lou rarely has a chance to relax on the weekends he’s too busy catching up on the laundry and the food shopping.

_____ 8. “Were you fired or laid off?” the woman at the unemployment office asked. “There’s a big difference.

_____ 9. The galaxy we live in is moving slowly through space someday it will probably collide with another galaxy.

_____ 10. My school expects me to buy a laptop next year but I will barely have enough money for my tuition.

TOPIC: SUMMARY PARAPHRASE

Some of the questions that follow are true-false or multiple choice questions, and some require you to write short answers.

1. Before writing a summary, you may want to preview the work by ______________.

a. gaining a quick overview of the article by reading the introduction and conclusion

b. considering ways in which the title condenses the article’s meaning

c. note any words that have been emphasized with italic or boldface type

d. all of the these

2. FILL-IN: Reporting information in your own words and style without condensing it is called ______________.

3. TRUE or FALSE: _____ If you borrow only a single sentence (without proper attribution) it is not plagiarism.

4. Which of the following is not an effective way to avoid plagiarism?

a. Read the information, set it aside, and then try to explain it in your own words and style.

b. Use an online thesaurus to change most of the words in a found passage.

c. Once you’ve written a paraphrase, compare your words and sentence structure to those of the original.

d. Credit the original source with an in-text citation.

5. TRUE or FALSE: _____ A summary is also referred to as a précis or abstract.

6. TRUE or FALSE: _____ It is a good idea to insert your own ideas and opinions into any summary you write.

7. TRUE or FALSE: _____Simply changing one or two words from the original is not a paraphrase.

8. FILL-IN: If you omit the irrelevant words in a quotation, you must show the omission by including _____________ in place of the deleted words.

9. Which of the following is not an effective strategy for writing summary?

a. Preserve the balance and proportion of the original work.

b. Periodically refer to the author or article to emphasize that this is a summary.

c. Include three or more quotations from the text in each paragraph of summary.

d. Express the main points and key details in your own words.

10. TRUE or FALSE: ______ If you want to use a quotation that is longer than four lines, you should block the quotation, indenting it by an extra margin.

TOPIC: IDENTIFYING TRANSITIONS AND OTHER CONNECTING WORDS

The following selections use transitions, repeated words, synonyms, and pronouns to tie together ideas. The connecting words you are to identify have been boldfaced. In the space provided, write T for Transition, RW for Repeated Word, S for Synonym, or P for Pronoun.

______ 1. Charles Goodyear invented the process that produces rubber. But he died in poverty in 1860, more than $200,000 in debt.

______ 2. An all-out nuclear war might destroy the earth’s ozone layer. Without it, we would be exposed to cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation.

______ 3. My new running shoes don’t have laces that have to be tied. Instead, their Velcro opening allows them to be slipped on in an instant.

______ 4. The finest sandpapers can buff eggshells and hull peanut skins. In contrast, the toughest abrasives can grind through inches of steel in seconds.

______ 5. Too much intensive exercise can actually hurt the body. Muscles usually need a forty-eight hour rest after a good workout.

______ 6. The barrel of a gun is marked with grooves that leave unique marks on the bullet it fires. An expert can match the bullet exactly to the gun it came from.

______ 7. Ticks can carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever. They have also been identified as the cause of Lyme disease, a severe form of arthritis.

______ 8. In 2012, McDonald’s, the fast-food giant, launched a pilot program to phase out polystyrene hot beverage cups. Polystyrene cups cannot be recycled.

______ 9. Lola loves to watch gymnastics and ice skating on television. She also enjoys demolition derbies.

______ 10. With a tractor trailer on the highway in front of me and another one on the side, I began to feel claustrophobic. This closed-in feeling increased when a large bus came up close behind me.

TOPIC: REVISING SENTENCES

Revise each of the following sentences, using the strategy indicated.

A. Parallelism

1. Tired of your old hair? The hair-care aisle is full of products that can color it, straighten it, or make it curly.

2. Beautiful women, a suave hero, and villains who are despicable are the most important elements of a James Bond movie.

B. Consistent point of view

3. Joanna’s date smiled at her, reached for her hand, and says, “You’re looking beautiful tonight.”

4. Rhonda says that you can kill a dog by feeding it chocolate.

C. Specific words

5. Tonight I’d like a hamburger with all the trimmings.

6. The pile of junk on Carlos’s bed made it impossible for him to sleep there.

D. Active verbs

7. My sleep was shattered by a blood-curdling scream.

8. Every bit of the stew was eaten by the hungry hikers.

E. Concise words

9. Without any doubt whatsoever, the success of this project has been due to the fact that everyone involved gave it his or her absolute utmost effort.

10. One of the very positive benefits of exercise is that after the person returns back to her normal everyday activities, she is not infrequently in a better mood than in the period of time before she exercised.

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ENC 101 ENGLISH COMPOSITION

FINAL EXAM

Instructions: Complete all answers on the answer sheet. Review and follow directions carefully. Good luck!

TOPIC: VERBS

All but one of the following sentences contain a mistake involving (1) standard English or irregular verb forms, (2) subject-verb agreement, or (3) consistent verb tense. Cross out the incorrect verb and write the correct form in the space provided. Mark the sentence that uses verbs correctly with a C.

______________ 1. Dot searched for the twenty-dollar bill she had hid somewhere in her purse.

______________ 2. Hovering overhead at the scene of the accident was several traffic helicopters.

______________ 3. When I caught my little boy pulling the dog’s ears, I sat him down and talk to him about being kind to animals.

______________ 4. Somebody in the dorm always keeps loud music playing all night long.

______________ 5. The giant-size box of Raisinets sells for four dollars at the theater’s candy counter.

______________ 6. This coat and scarf looks very warm, but the wind seems to go right through them.

______________ 7. Wanda swabbed the inside of her cheek with a Q-tip, smears the cells on a glass slide, and then looked at them through the microscope.

______________ 8. Last August, Carmen taked his family on a long car trip to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon.

______________ 9. When smoke spilled from the front of the overheated car, the driver opened up the hood and then jumps back as steam billowed out.

______________ 10. The class clown had went too far, and the students waited to see what the teacher would do.

TOPIC: PUNCTUATION MARKS

Each of the sentences below contains an error in punctuation. Refer to the box below to write, in the space provided, the letter identifying the error. Then correct the error.

a. missing comma b. missing apostrophe

c. missing semicolon d. missing quotation marks

_____ 1. When Karen’s mother returned to college this year the entire family had to help out with the housework.

_____ 2. The cashier testified that the robbers face had been covered with a nylon stocking.

_____ 3. Arlene just received a promotion she’s now an assistant buyer for the sports shop in the mall.

_____ 4. Im thinking about calling the humane society, for our neighbor leaves his dog outside in the most bitterly cold weather.

_____ 5. President Coolidge, who was known as “Silent Cal” didn’t talk much and slept eleven hours a day.

_____ 6. My dad’s favorite saying is, Don’t pull tomorrow’s cloud over today’s sunshine.”

_____ 7. Lou rarely has a chance to relax on the weekends he’s too busy catching up on the laundry and the food shopping.

_____ 8. “Were you fired or laid off?” the woman at the unemployment office asked. “There’s a big difference.

_____ 9. The galaxy we live in is moving slowly through space someday it will probably collide with another galaxy.

_____ 10. My school expects me to buy a laptop next year but I will barely have enough money for my tuition.

TOPIC: SUMMARY PARAPHRASE

Some of the questions that follow are true-false or multiple choice questions, and some require you to write short answers.

1. Before writing a summary, you may want to preview the work by ______________.

a. gaining a quick overview of the article by reading the introduction and conclusion

b. considering ways in which the title condenses the article’s meaning

c. note any words that have been emphasized with italic or boldface type

d. all of the these

2. FILL-IN: Reporting information in your own words and style without condensing it is called ______________.

3. TRUE or FALSE: _____ If you borrow only a single sentence (without proper attribution) it is not plagiarism.

4. Which of the following is not an effective way to avoid plagiarism?

a. Read the information, set it aside, and then try to explain it in your own words and style.

b. Use an online thesaurus to change most of the words in a found passage.

c. Once you’ve written a paraphrase, compare your words and sentence structure to those of the original.

d. Credit the original source with an in-text citation.

5. TRUE or FALSE: _____ A summary is also referred to as a précis or abstract.

6. TRUE or FALSE: _____ It is a good idea to insert your own ideas and opinions into any summary you write.

7. TRUE or FALSE: _____Simply changing one or two words from the original is not a paraphrase.

8. FILL-IN: If you omit the irrelevant words in a quotation, you must show the omission by including _____________ in place of the deleted words.

9. Which of the following is not an effective strategy for writing summary?

a. Preserve the balance and proportion of the original work.

b. Periodically refer to the author or article to emphasize that this is a summary.

c. Include three or more quotations from the text in each paragraph of summary.

d. Express the main points and key details in your own words.

10. TRUE or FALSE: ______ If you want to use a quotation that is longer than four lines, you should block the quotation, indenting it by an extra margin.

TOPIC: IDENTIFYING TRANSITIONS AND OTHER CONNECTING WORDS

The following selections use transitions, repeated words, synonyms, and pronouns to tie together ideas. The connecting words you are to identify have been boldfaced. In the space provided, write T for Transition, RW for Repeated Word, S for Synonym, or P for Pronoun.

______ 1. Charles Goodyear invented the process that produces rubber. But he died in poverty in 1860, more than $200,000 in debt.

______ 2. An all-out nuclear war might destroy the earth’s ozone layer. Without it, we would be exposed to cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation.

______ 3. My new running shoes don’t have laces that have to be tied. Instead, their Velcro opening allows them to be slipped on in an instant.

______ 4. The finest sandpapers can buff eggshells and hull peanut skins. In contrast, the toughest abrasives can grind through inches of steel in seconds.

______ 5. Too much intensive exercise can actually hurt the body. Muscles usually need a forty-eight hour rest after a good workout.

______ 6. The barrel of a gun is marked with grooves that leave unique marks on the bullet it fires. An expert can match the bullet exactly to the gun it came from.

______ 7. Ticks can carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever. They have also been identified as the cause of Lyme disease, a severe form of arthritis.

______ 8. In 2012, McDonald’s, the fast-food giant, launched a pilot program to phase out polystyrene hot beverage cups. Polystyrene cups cannot be recycled.

______ 9. Lola loves to watch gymnastics and ice skating on television. She also enjoys demolition derbies.

______ 10. With a tractor trailer on the highway in front of me and another one on the side, I began to feel claustrophobic. This closed-in feeling increased when a large bus came up close behind me.

TOPIC: REVISING SENTENCES

Revise each of the following sentences, using the strategy indicated.

A. Parallelism

1. Tired of your old hair? The hair-care aisle is full of products that can color it, straighten it, or make it curly.

2. Beautiful women, a suave hero, and villains who are despicable are the most important elements of a James Bond movie.

B. Consistent point of view

3. Joanna’s date smiled at her, reached for her hand, and says, “You’re looking beautiful tonight.”

4. Rhonda says that you can kill a dog by feeding it chocolate.

C. Specific words

5. Tonight I’d like a hamburger with all the trimmings.

6. The pile of junk on Carlos’s bed made it impossible for him to sleep there.

D. Active verbs

7. My sleep was shattered by a blood-curdling scream.

8. Every bit of the stew was eaten by the hungry hikers.

E. Concise words

9. Without any doubt whatsoever, the success of this project has been due to the fact that everyone involved gave it his or her absolute utmost effort.

10. One of the very positive benefits of exercise is that after the person returns back to her normal everyday activities, she is not infrequently in a better mood than in the period of time before she exercised.

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