MULTIPLE CHOICE EXERCISE

1.      The flexibility of film allows  the artist _____ unbridled imagination to the animation of cartoon characters.

a.      to bring

b.      bringing

c.      is brought

d.      brings

( infinitive ‘allow + to infinitive’ )

2.      Traditionally, _____ in Paris on Thanksgiving Day.

a.      when served is sweet cider

b.      when sweet cider is served

c.      is served sweet cider

d.      sweet cider is served

( structure of main predicate )

3.   Typical of the grassland dwellersof the continent _____, or pronghorn.

a.      it is the American antelope

b.      the American antelope is

c.      is the American antelope

d.      the American antelope

( inversion ‘verb + subject’ )

4.      Angga, public health nurse and _____, was born in Cincinnati Ohio.

a.      reforming society

b.      social reformer

c.      who reformed society

d.      her social reform

( parallel structure ‘frase subject + verb’ )

5.      Copper sulfate, spread in judicious amounts, kills algae _____ harming fish or aquatic invertebrates.

a.      does not

b.      but does  no

c.      except

d.      without

( preposition )

6.      Of the millions who saw Haley’s comet in 1986, how many people  _____ long enough to see it return in the twenty-first century.

a.      will they live

b.      they will be living

c.      will live

d.      living

( predicate )

7.      _____  that fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise are universally reflected in facial expressions.

a.      Anthropologists have discovered

b.      Anthropologists discovering

c.      The discovery by anthropologists

d.      Discovered by anthropologists

( complex sentences ‘main clause + subordinate’ )

8.      In 1964 _____ of Henry Ossawa Tanner’s paintings was shown at the Smithsonian Institution.

a.      was a major collection

b.      that a major collection

c.      a collection was major

d.      major collection

( the subject )

9.      _____ irritating effect on humans, the use of phenol as a general antiseptic has been largely discontinued.

a.      Its

b.      Where its

c.      Since its

d.      Because of its

(prepositional phrases )

10.  In order to remain in existence, _____ must, in the long run, produce something consumers consider useful or desirable.

a.      a profit-making organization

b.      a profit-making organization which

c.      therefore a profit-making organization

d.      whichever a profit-making organization

(the subject )