GED Language Arts - Writing (Essay Writing Exam) Sample Questions:
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Sentence During the course of her employment with Ryan Industries is when Elena has received two bonuses and a number of commendations from our customers.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose optionA.
A) Industries and Elena
B) Industries is when Elena
C) Industries.Elena
D) Industries, when Elena
E) Industries, Elena
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Sentences 5 and 6:Leave the clippings in the grass.The need for fertilizers is reduced.
The most effective combination of sentences 5 and 6 would include which group of words?
A) grass, needing
B) grass, thus reducing
C) grass, the need
D) grass and thus reducing
E) grass and reducing
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Sentence 1When they return home at night, they are frequently to tired to do more than eat dinner and sit in front of the television set.
Which correction should be made to sentence 11?
A) replace night, they with night they
B) replace to tired with too tired
C) no correction is necessary
D) change sit to sitting
E) change to do to to have done
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How to Bake a Sicilian Pizza at Home
(A)
A) insert a comma after ovens
B) change create to creates
C) change generates to generate
D) Generally, you start with the bread dough, putting on some toppings, and bake the pizza
in the oven.(6) However, you must first preheat the oven to 500 degrees for at least a half an hour.(7) After preheating the oven divide the dough into four equal balls.(8) There are, however, a few specific steps to follow for successfully making a pizza at home (9) Flatten one of the balls and stretch them with your hands into a circle.(10) Next, place the dough on a metal or wooden baking sheet that has been dusted with flour, then coat the dough with tomato sauce and other toppings, including a drizzle of olive oil.(11) Finally, for the best effect, slide the dough from the baking sheet onto the pizza stone.(12) Baking for about 15 minutes until the bottom is cooked and the edges are brown.
(D)
(13)
There is other important things to remember as you make your own pizza.(14) Make sure that your dough is soft so that it is easy to work with.(15) Also, to avoid creating a soggy pizza, you should use tomato sauce sparingly.(16) Now you are ready to enjoy a pizza at home that is the equal to that of your favorite pizza parlor.(17) Bon appetit! -- Exhibit -Sentence The reason is that wood-fired brick ovens at the pizza parlor generates the intense heat needed to create fine pizza. Which correction should be made to sentence 2?
E) Its almost impossible to bake a Sicilian pizza at home like those pizzas baked in your hometown pizza parlor.B.The reason is that wood-fired brickovens at the pizza parlor generates the intense heat needed to create fine pizza.
(B)
F) change is to are
G) Since the conventional oven at home cannot produce such intense heat, you must use a conventional oven equipped with a pizza stone.D.An oven of this kind preheated for half an hour will make you a very good pizza.
(C)
H) change needed to needing
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Sentence 1 Regular delivery service is $4.00, for any document or package weighing less than three pounds.
Which correction should be made to sentence 14?
A) change service to services
B) remove the comma after $4.00
C) no correction is necessary
D) insert a comma after document
E) insert a comma after package
Solutions:
Question # 1 Answer: E | Question # 2 Answer: B | Question # 3 Answer: B | Question # 4 Answer: D | Question # 5 Answer: B |