A.   We expect only three things—three very important things—from

C.   those in need. If those simple things are not in your repertoire,

D.   please don't bother applying to our program.

E.   No error

B.   Is it better to stop here for the night, or is it better to continue on for another few miles?

C.   You've spelled the name of the town incorrectly; it should be o-x-f-o-r-d.

D.   The question about how to implement the state-of-the-art equipment was on all our minds.

A.   True

A.   Dr Hahn had to give up his yacht, Hope III, when he filed for bankruptcy.

B.   The bowlers, who were all in their forties, brought in scores that included two 289s and four 300s.

C.   My 5-year-old daughter has already read ¾ of the encyclopedia.

D.   Refer to pages 36-62 for information on activities for age groups 3 to five, 6-8, and 9 up to eleven.

A.   Had I known about the prize, I might have bought a raffle ticket.

C.   Could you see your way clear to helping me decipher this enigmatic message?

D.   If I were you, I'd think twice about swimming in quicksand.

A.   My mother does not have a green thumb—as witness, I

C.   balcony like the frightened survivors of some strange calamity.

D.   No error

A.   My carpenter friend, did I already tell you this?, will look at the work tomorrow and give you an estimate.

B.   My carpenter friend (did I already tell you this?) will look at the work tomorrow and give you an estimate.

C.   My carpenter friend: did I already tell you this?: will look at the work tomorrow and give you an estimate.

B.   The young Viking was sure he could attack the city around midnight and finish conquering it by dawn.

C.   The aircraft ride was very long; it was, however, better than travelling on a tandem bicycle like you wanted to do.

D.   All of the above

C.  

OffHart, Nellie A. Ext 3323 noffha@millingscuff.nz.cc

D.  

Parvcel, Jerome M. Ext 3330 jparvc@milingscuff.nz.cc

A.   We racked our brains to come up with a solution to the problem.

B.   It's wonderful how little affected Agnes and John are by the ravages of time.

C.   The mysterious letter inferred that my wife was having an affair with the butler.

D.   I was overwhelmed by the growing amount of protesters outside my window.

E.   a and c

A.   Maria loved the production of Cymbeline: she went back to see it three times.

B.   My mother said, 'Be careful of what you wish for'.

C.   Deb has only three desires: to be happy, to be safe, and to be loved.

A.   Mr Hoffman or his assistants are ready to help you with the new editing software.

B.   Every salesperson, according to the latest report, has underperformed this quarter.

D.   Eat it before it escapes!

A.  

Dangling modifier

B.  

Diction or wrong word choice

D.  

Comparison

A.  

April 26, 1966, was just a regular day for most folks—but for Renata and her two siblings, it was the beginning of a whole new life.

B.  

His seven-year contract includes a yearly salary increase of 3.4 percent.

C.  

I read on page 1953 that at least 1,953 cats have been adopted since 1953.

A.  

Everyone in town, intent on sending that crook of a mayor to jail, testified

B.  

in front of the judge. Even the judge himself testified, asking himself questions

C.  

and giving himself carefully considered responses. The mayor didn't stand a chance.

A.   Salmon, Harry R. Digestive Tracts: News and Views from the Belly of the Beast. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

B.   ———. 'The Hiccup and Its Role in Digestion'. In Neurobiology Now, edited by M. LaCrosse, 221—228. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

D.   Yarnoff, Malek, trans. Signs of Recovery. London: Stratton Books, 2004.

B.   The years after World War II saw a large increase in non-English-speaking immigrants.

C.   'Well, I have never been so insulted', began Mrs. Tisdale, but the head waiter of the trendy restaurant cut her short.

D.   It's obvious that Glinda's love of dashes—which she displays even in her prose pieces—was inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

A.   (Harrison 2004, vol. 3)

B.   (Talley 1983, 12—14)

D.   (Salmon 1995, 2:325—28)

A.   Nardo, Alison, 34

B.   hibiscus, cultivation of, 269—72

D.   American Society for Horticultural Science, 72, 85, 101

A.  

Subject-verb agreement

C.  

Tense or verb shift

D.  

Pronoun case

E.  

No error

A.   Gerald found 5p on the sidewalk, of which he lent 4p to Miranda.

B.   My friend Kenneth deposited his savings of £23.32 into thirty-one different banks.

C.   The government provided £8.2 billion in aid to many struggling countries.

A.   Bald Soprano, The (Ionesco), 67

B.   Arms and the Man (Shaw), 12—32

D.   Verdi, Giuseppe, works of: Don Carlo, 37;

E.   Aida, 38—41; Otello, 42

A.   My colleague, in an effort to win the pity vote and therefore shield himself from blame,

B.   told our boss that he had recently, and quite unexpectedly, separated from his wife; that

D.   reported him to the police for disturbing the peace; and that he suspected foul

E.   play in the recent disappearance of Sophie, his beloved cat.

F.   No error

A.   Although the allowance for dart width determines the shape of the garment, it does not always have to be sewn into a dart.

C.   The man who designed Ralph's tuxedo also designed dashing ensembles for my Chihuahua Ricardo.

D.   Having scolded me for my carelessness, the tailor proceeded to repair the gaping hole in my jacket.

A.   The fact that you've run our debt up to 5.2 million dollars peeves me to the nth degree!

B.   Sue told me for the thousandth time that she had only 127 chickens, not 130 as I had thought.

C.   1973 saw the largest population increase since 1952.

A.   According to these records, the school years 1998 and 2001 were plagued by dwindling budgets.

C.   The final scores in the international championship were as follows; England, 6; Germany, 4.

D.   Italian has two terms for the word

A.   As a public speaking exercise, we were

B.   required to memorise and recite not only the

D.   of Hamlet's soliloquies.

E.   No error

A.  

Comma splice

B.  

Pronoun reference

C.  

Faulty modifier

D.  

Parallelism

A.   Keegan, Michelle. The First Rule: Societal Restrictions at the Turn of the Century. New York: Rand McNally, 2004.

B.   Barrington, Gavin R., and T. R. Yang. History of the Universe. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

C.   Harrison, Walter C., trans. 'Crossing the Divide'. AMA Newsletter 25 (January—February 2007): 4—12.

D.   U.S. Senate. Committee on Public Lands. National Parks Report. 104th Cong., 1st sess., 1995.

E.   a and c

A.   There should be no character space after any mark of punctuation that ends a sentence.

C.   Two character spaces should follow any mark of punctuation that ends a sentence.

D.   One or two character spaces may follow any mark of punctuation that ends a sentence.

A.   That gigantic balding man was easy to distinguish in the crowd.

C.   That gigantic, balding, man was easy to distinguish in the crowd.

D.   That gigantic balding man, was easy to distinguish in the crowd.

A.   Elizabeth II (queen), 28

B.   Albert II, Prince of Monaco, 67

C.   Sussex, 3rd Earl of (Oliver Ashton Cooper), 45

A.   That boat has cost us a fortune so far: more than £15,000 to repair the hull

C.   for the summer. What do you say we get rid of it and buy a beach cottage?

D.   No error

A.   Sam would have loved to adopt a monkey, to take it home, and share his room with it.

C.   Sam looked forward to teaching the monkey how to play rugby and football.

D.   All of the above sentences contain errors in sentence structure.

B.   The goal of the mailing list update is to check the accuracy of company addresses, titles, and positions of contact names; and phone numbers and extensions.

C.   To update the mailing list, you must check each company's directory to verify its mailing address: call each department to verify the name and title of its supervisor: double check the phone numbers and extensions against the master list.

D.   The goal of the mailing list update is to: check the accuracy of company addresses: titles and positions of contact names: phone numbers, and extensions.

A.   Seeing as our train wasn't scheduled to leave until 12:00 a.m., we decided to

B.   drive the thirteen miles to Albany to do a little shopping—it was, after all,

C.   only 15 days until Christmas and we hadn't even thought about gifts. Seven

D.   grandchildren, including a 3-year-old, were counting on us!

E.   a, b, and d

B.   Herbert and Peg have always been so rude to Arthur and me.

C.   Stella's and Alma's puppies usually frolic together at the dog park.

D.   Each of the climbers has undergone a rigorous physical assessment.

A.   We should have known that it was Bob

C.   to be inconsiderate on more than one occasion.

D.   No error

A.   Blumenthal, Dr, Richard, 105

B.   King, Martin Luther, Jr, 15

C.   Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 34

A.   I believe it was T. S. Eliot who asked, 'Do I dare to eat a peach?'

B.   I've always been confused by the third and fourth lines in Dickinson's famous poem 'I heard a Fly buzz-when I died -'.

C.   Consider the first line of Herrick's 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time': 'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may'.

A.   After dividing up the loot, we realized that Lightfoot and Drake had taken the lions' share.

B.   Hugh isn't a close friend; still, I wish he would have invited me to the party.

C.   Having been awakened by the screaming sirens, the policeman met me in my pyjamas.

A.  

One plane, eight yachts, sixteen luxury cars, numerous houses, villas and apartments—

B.  

my grandfather was disgustingly rich, but also disgustingly stingy. Upon his death, we

C.  

discovered that, rather than divide his estate equally among his family members,

D.  

Grandpa had decided to leave a tiny morsel to every person in town—total strangers!—

F.  

b and c

G.  

No error  

A.   You are required to provide (1), three watercolour brushes (2), three oil brushes and (3), one easel.

B.   The professor will lead workshops in (a) working with pastels; (b) working with watercolours, and (c) working with oil paints.

C.   The workshops are offered in three one-week summer sessions: (a) the first week in June, (b) the third week in July and (c) the second week in August.

D.   You are required to provide (1) watercolour brushes, oil brushes and a palette; (2) a variety of pencils, pens, pastels and charcoals; and (3) two sketch pads, two frames and an easel.

E.   a and b

A.   We are preparing shipments to Manchester, Dublin, and Kansas City.

B.   Dr Amanda Bellingham will be the guest of honour at the dinner. Please have the driver pick up Dr Bellingham at her hotel at 5:00 p.m.

D.   The 10% discount he negotiated on that £730 printer saved the company £73.

A.   The explosion at Carmella's Candy Factory—which was quite

B.   shocking—was apparently set off (or so say the authorities)

C.   by rival confectioner Drusilla's Dragees of Dorchester. Be that as it may,

E.   stashed in the pantry (last time I looked, that is).

F.   No error

B.   She completed her degree in the late 1980s and found immediate employment with First National Bank; indeed, she's spent three-quarters of her career there.

C.   Jane is fascinated by French fashion of the seventeen hundreds and twentieth-century American fashion of the twenties and thirties.

D.   Pompeii, which was founded between 700 and 600 BC, met its end in AD 79.

A.   Comparing a galley or first proof word for word against an edited manuscript

B.   Correcting minor errors of accuracy and consistency in spelling, grammar, capitalization, hyphenation, and other style elements

C.   Checking for errors in running heads, page numbers, word breaks, and formatting

E.   Ensuring that the author's final changes to the manuscript have been correctly transferred to the proof

F.   Checking the accuracy of numbers, abbreviations, titles, bulleted lists, tables, figures, and captions

B.   temperature characteristics of the four seasons, depends largely upon the angle at

C.   which solar radiation reaches the Earth, which is in turn a function of the time

D.   of day, the geographic latitude and the time of year.

E.   No error

A.   The main character's shift in attitude is apparent when she

B.   says: 'Hilda swore up and down that she would never again speak to

D.   beginning of the end of the relationship between the long-time friends.

E.   No error

A.   Alice intended to climb the mountain; however, she changed her mind once she'd seen the weather forecast.

C.   No Swimming—piranhas congregate here!

D.   I read Nathan's manual, entitled 'How to raise peaceful Chickens', from cover to cover.