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45CHAPTER 14 / PRACTICE PSAT 4
497
Section 5
Time—30 minutes
39 Questions (1 –39)
Directions for “Improving Sentences” Questions
Each of the sentences below contains one underlined portion. The portion may contain one or more
errors in grammar, usage, construction, precision, diction (choice of words), or idiom. Some of the sen-
tences are correct.
Consider the meaning of the original sentence, and choose the answer that best expresses that meaning.
If the original sentence is best, choose (A), because it repeats the original phrasing. Choose the phrasing
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that creates the clearest, most precise, and most effective sentence.
EXAMPLE:
The children couldn’t hardly believe their eyes.
(A) couldn’t hardly believe their eyes
(B) would not hardly believe their eyes
(C) could hardly believe their eyes
(D) couldn’t nearly believe their eyes
(E) could hardly believe his or her eyes
B
The sous-chef chopped vegetables and meat
B
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Many people are surprised to learn that an
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all afternoon for organizing the foods for
hour of cross-country skiing at a moderate
the big dinner later that night.
pace will burn as many calories as an hour
of jogging.
(A) for organizing the foods
(B) to organize the foods
(A) as an hour of jogging
(C) for the organization of the foods
(B) as to jog for an hour
(D) in order for organization of the foods
(C) than to jog for an hour
(E) in the organization of the foods
(D) as if you jog for an hour
(E) as will to jog for an hour
B
Robert Frost, known for his political con-
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servatism as well as his philosophical
B
Cigarettes, long thought to be extremely
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poems, becoming one of America’s leading
dangerous, instead are now known to be a
twentieth-century poets.
major cause of lung cancer.
(A) poems, becoming
(A) instead are now known
(B) poems; becoming
(B) surprisingly, is now believed
(C) poems, he has also become
(C) are indeed now known
(D) poems, to become
(D) amazingly has been found
(E) poems, became
(E) unexpectedly is now known
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