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Example Questions
Example Question #1 : Adjectives Describing Quality, Quantity, And Variety
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Excessive
Deficent
Conspicuous
Diverse
No mistakes
Deficent
This question tested your ability to spot an often easy to overlook error, a missing "i" verb. The reason this is easy to miss is purely visual, in the middle of a visually complex word like "deficient" it is almost natural to overlook a missing letter. It is important, when proofreading or having your spelling tested, to give words an extra look, to make sure that your eye hasn't naturally filled in a missing letter.
The rest of these adjectives are all spelled correctly.
Example Question #1 : Spelling
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Instantaneously
Urgently
Zelously
No mistakes
Wryly
Zelously
The correct spelling for the word "zealously" has an "a" after the "e." You could have known this by simply knowing the correct spelling, or realizing that this adverb would be based on the word "zeal," which includes an "a" after the "e." The rest of the options were correctly spelled adverbs.
Example Question #1 : Nouns
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Explanation
No mistakes
Comotion
Demotion
Promotion
Comotion
The only word that is misspelled is "comotion," which is missing an "m." "Commotion" is the correct spelling. All the other given options are spelled correctly.
Example Question #2 : Nouns
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Calamitty
Chicanery
No mistakes
Amity
Solemnity
Calamitty
"Calamity," when spelled correctly, uses only one "t" preceding the "y." All the other options are correctly spelled.
Example Question #3 : Nouns
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Virtuoso
Pundit
No mistakes
Diciple
Goon
Diciple
The given options are all words used to describe different kinds of people (making them all, obviously, nouns). "Disciple," however, needs to have an "s" preceding the "c."
Example Question #1 : Spelling
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Appease
Impress
Brood
No mistakes
Vex
No mistakes
The given words are all verbs describing emotional changes or states. All of them are spelled correctly.
Example Question #2 : Tachs: Language
Select the word from the given options that is misspelled. If all the given words are spelled correctly select "No mistakes."
Drench
No mistakes
Dry
Impede
Soak
No mistakes
The given options are all verbs pertaining to the act of changing something's physical state. They are all spelled correctly, so the only correct answer is "no mistakes."
Example Question #1 : Tachs: Language
Select from the given options the one that includes a usage error. If all of the options are correct, select "no mistakes."
We had a terrible time at the football game. It was bitter cold.
I sincerely do not like football.
No mistakes
The brain trauma issue deeply bothers me, especially when the players are not being paid.
We had a terrible time at the football game. It was bitter cold.
The example sentence erroneously uses an adjective where an adverb is needed. "Bitter," in this context, modifies the verb "was," and therefore should be replaced by the adverb "bitterly." If the cold were being used as a noun, then the adjective form of "bitter" would be appropriate—for example, "We were wrapped in a bitter cold."
Example Question #1 : Case
Select from the given options the one that includes a usage error. If all of the options are correct, select "no mistakes."
I have no clear idea who I am speaking to.
No mistakes
Listen, I'm reaching the limits of my patience.
Excuse me, could you say that again?
I have no clear idea who I am speaking to.
The correct choice features a very common error of pronoun case, which leads the sentence to incorrectly conclude with a preposition. Rather than using the subjective-case "who" in saying "who I am speaking to," it is correct to use the objective-case "whom." Sentences should never, in academic writing, end with a preposition.
Example Question #1 : Tachs: Language
Select from the given options the one that includes a usage error. If all of the options are correct, select "no mistakes."
If you cross the street carelessly, you never know what might happen.
No mistakes
Kent was extremely sad; he had been thinking about cross the street an unhealthy amount
It is very important to look both ways when one crosses the street because you never know when a car might come.
It is very important to look both ways when one crosses the street because you never know when a car might come.
The correct answer features inconsistent pronoun usage. Since the sentence first uses the pronoun "one," the sentence must remain consistent in its usage of that pronoun. It is incorrect to follow "one" (when used as a pronoun) with "you." The correct version of the sentence reads, "It is very important to look both ways when one crosses the street because one never knows when a car might come." This question interrogates the principle of consistent pronoun usage. None of the other options included any grammatical errors.