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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. Choose the series of words or phrases that best completes the following sentence: ________ agreed that ________ of our precautions would be useless once the temperature dropped to _________.
2. Identify the type of error contained in the following sentence.Because I have an extreme allergy to nuts
3. Which of the following sentences contains an error in grammar or word usage?
4. Read the following passage (options) and select the line that contains an error in grammar or usage.
5. Choose the series of words or phrases that best completes the following passage: Through the complete failure of all our _________ events
6. Which of the following sentences requires editing to correct an error in pronoun-antecedent agreement?
7. Which of the following sentences does NOT require editing to correct errors in word choice
8. Which of the following sentences contains an error in grammar or usage?
9. Choose the series of verb forms that best completes the following passage: If any club member _____________ suggest that he was not against opening membership to women but only against allowing them early tee times
10. 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
11. Which of the following sentences requires editing to correct an error in subject-verb agreement?
12. Read the following passage and identify the punctuation error it contains: asked Jamie if she had read Zinn's A People's History of the United States. 'Yes
13. Which of the following sentences does NOT require editing to correct a comparison error?
14. Which of the following sentences requires editing to correct grammar or usage errors?
15. 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.
16. Read the following passage and identify the style error it contains: Of the two control groups
17. Which of the following sentences requires editing to correct an error in parallel structure?
18. Which of the following sentences requires editing to correct grammar or usage errors?
19. Which of the following sentences does NOT require editing to correct a modifier usage error?
20. Choose the series of verb forms that best completes the following passage: If Sen. Hannibal ________ control his anger just a touch more
21. Read the following passage and select the option that illustrates the best course of action for an editor to take: )Greta
22. Read the following sentence and identify the type of verb or tense error contained in the underlined portion: Local citizens protested the controversial evangelist's tour and threatened to riot outside any venue that dared to host his event.
23. All but one of the following sentences require editing to correct passive voice
24. Which of the following sentences does NOT require editing to correct errors in punctuation?
25. Read the following passage and identify the type of grammar or usage error it contains: The baby giraffe just loved to play with the 10 puma cubs. Their games came inevitably -” and painfully -” to an end

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