Which transitional words show cause and effect? Check all that apply.
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so
thus
therefore
consequently
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Which sentence is written correctly?
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Lita was devastated and started wailing when she heard the news.
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Fill in the blanks in order.
Serena wanted to _______ a novel _______ her favorite author.
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buy, by
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Fill in the blank.
My mom ______ me to go to the store.
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allowed
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Read the sentence.
Digestion is divided into four parts, ingestion, digestion, absorption, and elimination.
Which revision is necessary?
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change the comma after "parts" to a colon
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Read the excerpt from The Code Book.
A theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding Alice's private key. Alice's private key consists of p and q, and these are found by factoring the public key, N. The standard approach is to check each prime number one at a time to see if it divides into N, but we know that this takes an unreasonable amount of time.
Which statement is best supported by this excerpt?
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The author writes with great scientific detail.
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A _____________ phrase is necessary to the meaning of a sentence.
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restrictive
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Which sentences are punctuated correctly? Check all that apply.
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The nurse, who was kind and compassionate, bandaged my thumb.
The coach with the red jacket just paid my brother a huge compliment.
Leonardo da Vinci—painter and sculptor—was part of the Renaissance.
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Fill in the blank.
I want ______ part in this group project because I want to do my own.
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no
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Abigail is writing a comparative essay about two books. She would like to write an in-depth analysis of each book and then compare them.
Which organizational style would work best for Abigail?
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blocking
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Read the sentence.
Alma plans to visit London and Paris, where her parents went on their first trip together as a married couple.
What best describes the underlined part of the sentence, and why?
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It is a nonrestrictive relative clause because it begins with a relative pronoun, has both a subject and a verb, and is not necessary to the meaning of the sentence.
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Which are examples of an expository writing style? Check all that apply.
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More than a hundred million e-mails are sent around the world each day, and they are all vulnerable to interception.
Other attacks include the use of viruses and Trojan horses.
Only a small fraction of the information flowing around the world is securely encrypted.
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