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“Pyramids are most commonly associated with ancient Egypt. ________ many people are surprised to learn that the Nubians, who lived in modern-day Sudan, constructed a far greater number of pyramids that the Egyptians did.”
(A) Moreover,
(B) Consequently,
(C) Nevertheless,
(D) Likewise,
B. This is a cause-and-effect transition, so none of the other answer choices fit.
“From the moment 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered in 1968, it was clear that the film would become best known for its special effects. It featured spacecraft that flew realistically—not zooming around in a cartoonish manner, as was the case in other films of the time. ______ Kubrick imagined a fully realized vision of regular human spaceflights in Earth orbit and beyond.”
(A) Moreover,
(B) Nevertheless,
(C) To illustrate,
(D) Meanwhile,
A. A continuer fits best for this transition. B, and D are contradictors, and don’t match. C suggests an example, yet the example was in the second sentence. Since the third sentence introduces a related but different idea, A is the best option.
Identify the part of speech.
“Edith Kanaka’ole was an internationally acclaimed hula teacher, composer, chanter, and performer. Today, she is credited with playing a vital role in passing down the teachings of hula during the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s.”
Adverb
Identify the part of speech.
“One of the main effects of industrialization was the shift from a society in which women worked at home to one in which women worked in factories and brought home wages to their families.”
Pronoun
Is this a sentence or a fragment?
“Many people considering Louis Armstrong the greatest jazz musician of all time.”
Fragment
Label as sentence or fragment. Rewrite fragment as a sentence by changing, adding, or eliminating one word only.
“In the nineteenth century, the Great Lakes being a major highway for transportation, migration, and trade, as well as home to a large number of aquatic species.”
Fragment— “In the nineteenth century, the Great Lakes were a major highway for transportation, migration, and trade, as well as home to a large number of aquatic species.”
“Weighing in at 165 tons or more, blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are the largest animals on Earth. They have been the subject of decades of ______ still have many unanswered questions about their biology and ecology.”
(A) research, though, scientists
(B) research; though, scientists
(C) research, though. Scientists
(D) research, though scientists
D
“According to one scholar, the Singer sewing machine emerged from a collaboration between a so-called mechanical ______ and a lawyer, Edward Clark. Singer may or may not have been a genius with machinges, but he was remarkably adept at displaying his name: it appeared multiple times on the machiens he and Clark produced.”
(A) genius Isaac Merritt Singer,
(B) genius Isaac Merritt Singer
(C) genius, Isaac Merritt Singer,
(D) genius Isaac Merritt Singer,
C
“Alfred Mosher Butts, the American _____ intended it to be a variation on the existing word game Lexiko— the two games had the same set of letter tiles and point values. Butts created a few sets himself, but the first manufacturers who inspected them did not think that the game was likely to become very popular.”
(A) architect, who created ScrabbleTM,
(B) architect, who created ScrabbleTM
(C) architect who created ScrabbleTM
(D) architect who created ScrabbleTM,
D
