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U.S. English AP Style Editing Skills Test (Upwork)
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U.S. English AP Style Editing Skills Test (Upwork)
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1. Read the following passage and identify the punctuation error it contains: Delilah's 20-page tale of derring do delighted the dignitaries who stamped their feet in approval. Reading from a dais draped in crepe
2. Read the following passage and select the option that illustrates the best course of action for an editor to take: So the guy breaks into our house
3. Which of the following sentences contains an error in grammar or word usage?
4. Read the following passage and select the line that contains a grammar or usage error.
5. Which of the following sentences does NOT require editing to correct grammar or usage errors?
6. Read the following sentence and identify the type of error it contains: Although the critic did not like so-called chick flicks
7. Read the following sentence and identify the type of verb or tense error it contains. If we decided to move venues
8. Read the following sentence and identify the style error it contains: Many people in the United States are awaiting the report from the U.N. inspectors.
9. Choose the series of adjectives that best completes the following sentence: We have no doubt that the senator's meeting of 'goodwill' with our arch rival will be accompanied by _________ clandestine deal for lucrative building contracts and ________ talk of future collaborations.
10. Which of the following sentences requires editing to correct errors in verb tense?
11. Read the following passage and select the line that contains an error in verb tense consistency.
12. Read the following passage and identify the line that contains an error in agreement or parallel structure: That boat has cost us a fortune so far: more than $25
13. Read the following passage and select the option that illustrates the best course of action for an editor to take: Outsourcing our accounting and collections tasks has really laid credence to our company. Our customers now perceive us to be bigger than we are and are certainly put hard to ignore their outstanding invoices.
14. Read the following passage and identify the style error it contains: Of the two control groups
15. Read the following passage and select the option that illustrates the best course of action for an editor to take: Even though Alison spends a lot of time complaining and bemoaning her fate and wishing that her circumstances are not quite so reduced
16. Read the following sentence and select the option that illustrates the best course of action for an editor to take: recent study by a team of sociologists at Johns Hopkins University confirmed that the average female moviegoer expects to see at least three romantic scenes per film
17. Read the following sentence and select the option that illustrates the best course of action for an editor to take: Happiness has always and will always be an elusive element in my life.
18. Choose the series of verb forms that best completes the following passage: doctor at the Metropolitan Clinic in Chicago claims that if women ________ and ________
19. Which of the following sentences requires editing to correct an error in pronoun-antecedent agreement?
20. Read the following sentence and choose the option that shows the part of the sentence that should be edited to eliminate redundancy: Participants were informed that the rally scheduled for 9 a.m. in the morning had been canceled.
21. Which of the following sentences requires editing to correct grammar or usage errors?
22. Choose the editing option that best corrects the underlined part of the following sentence: After an entire day of experimenting with new medications
23. Identify the type of error contained in the following sentence.Because I have an extreme allergy to nuts
24. Choose the editing option that best corrects the underlined part of the following sentence: The board of directors said that the company could move forward with the new plan without first seeking the approving of the foreign investors.
25. Read the following passage (options) and select the line that contains an error in grammar or usage.

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