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Writing skills cover sentence construction, spelling, word usage and the editing of written English. The work includes finding fragments, run-on sentences, faulty coordination, misplaced modifiers, misspellings, confusing word pairs and errors that proofreading should correct without changing the intended meaning.

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Moderate
  • A. Attempted to acquaint
  • B. Attempting to acquaint
  • C. Attempts at acquainting
  • D. Attempt to acquaint

Explanation: “Attempts at acquainting” is a grammatical noun phrase that can follow “is an eye-opener and,” with the study as its subject.

Correct answer: Attempts at acquainting
Easy
  • A. too much hot
  • B. so much hot
  • C. too hot
  • D. more hotter

Explanation: “Hot” is an adjective modified directly by “too,” giving the correct phrase “too hot.” “Too much” modifies uncountable nouns, while “more…

Correct answer: too hot
Moderate
  • A. smarter
  • B. smarter than
  • C. smarter than those
  • D. more smarter than

Explanation: “Smarter than those in other schools” compares the students with “those,” meaning the students in the other schools.

Correct answer: smarter than those
Moderate
  • A. than an entire
  • B. than entire
  • C. than is entire
  • D. than entirely

Explanation: The comparison is between the quasar's light and the light of an entire galaxy, so than an entire galaxy completes the construction.

Correct answer: than an entire
Fairly easy
  • A. promiscous
  • B. promiscuous
  • C. promiscuuous
  • D. promisscuous

Explanation: “Promiscuous” is the correct spelling, meaning indiscriminate or involving many casual sexual relationships.

Correct answer: promiscuous
Very hard
  • A. Recrudescence.
  • B. Recrudascence
  • C. Recrudescance
  • D. Recrudescince

Explanation: The correct spelling is “recrudescence,” meaning the return or revival of something after a period of decline.

Correct answer: Recrudescence.
Fairly easy
  • A. Condescend
  • B. Condascend
  • C. Condescand
  • D. Condiscend

Explanation: “Condescend” is spelled with “-descend,” just like the related verb “descend.” The forms using “a” or “isc” are misspellings.

Correct answer: Condescend
Moderate
  • A. Auxuliary
  • B. Auxilliary
  • C. Auxiliary
  • D. Auxuiliarye

Explanation: The correct spelling is “auxiliary,” meaning providing additional help or support.

Correct answer: Auxiliary
Moderate
  • A. Commision
  • B. Comission
  • C. Comision
  • D. Commission

Explanation: The correct spelling is “commission,” with double “m” and double “s.” The other forms omit one of these repeated letters.

Correct answer: Commission
Fairly easy
  • A. Cemetary
  • B. Cemetery
  • C. Cemmetary
  • D. Cemmetery

Explanation: The correct spelling is “cemetery,” containing “e” after the initial “c” and ending in “-tery.” The common error is writing “-etary.”

Correct answer: Cemetery
Moderate
  • A. Milennium
  • B. Millenium
  • C. Millennium
  • D. Milenium

Explanation: The correct spelling is “millennium,” with double “l,” double “n,” and the ending “-ium.” The other options leave out one of the repeated…

Correct answer: Millennium
Fairly easy
  • A. Succide
  • B. Suicide
  • C. Sucide
  • D. Suiccide

Explanation: The correct spelling is “suicide,” formed from “sui” and “-cide,” meaning killing. The other choices add or omit letters incorrectly.

Correct answer: Suicide
Hard
  • A. already
  • B. altogether
  • C. all together
  • D. all ready

Explanation: All ready means completely prepared, which fits the question about leaving on vacation.

Correct answer: all ready
Fairly easy
  • A. Benefited
  • B. benifited
  • C. benifitted
  • D. None of These

Explanation: “Benefited” is correctly formed from “benefit” by adding “-ed.” The other spellings incorrectly replace the second “e” or misspell the…

Correct answer: Benefited
Moderate
  • A. Qoloquial
  • B. Coloquial
  • C. Colloqial
  • D. Colloquial

Explanation: The correct spelling is “colloquial,” meaning characteristic of informal speech.

Correct answer: Colloquial
Moderate
  • A. Etiquite
  • B. Etiquette
  • C. Etikuit
  • D. None of These

Explanation: Etiquette is the correct spelling for the customary rules of polite behaviour.

Correct answer: Etiquette
Moderate
  • A. Metropolitan
  • B. Metropoleton
  • C. Metropulitan
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Metropolitan is the correct spelling, formed from metropolis with the ending -politan.

Correct answer: Metropolitan
Moderate
  • A. bureaucracy
  • B. bereaucracy
  • C. buraucracy
  • D. berocracy

Explanation: Bureaucracy begins with “bureau” and ends with “-cracy,” producing bureaucracy.

Correct answer: bureaucracy
Moderate
  • A. Bettalion
  • B. Battalion
  • C. Bettalean
  • D. Battalian

Explanation: The correct spelling is “battalion,” meaning a large military unit. The common error is inserting an extra “e” or placing the “i”…

Correct answer: Battalion
Hard
  • A. Cessation
  • B. Cession
  • C. Session
  • D. cestion

Explanation: Cessation means a stopping or ending, so “the cessation of war” means the end of hostilities.

Correct answer: Cessation