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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. Morgage
  • B. Morguage
  • C. Mortgage
  • D. Morgauge

Explanation: Mortgage is the standard spelling for a loan secured against property. The other forms incorrectly place or omit letters after “Mortg-”.

Correct answer: Mortgage
Moderate
  • A. In
  • B. Un
  • C. Dis
  • D. None

Explanation: The prefix “un-” forms the opposite of believable: unbelievable. “In-” and “dis-” do not form the standard word in this context.

Correct answer: Un
Hard
  • A. Hail
  • B. Hale
  • C. Hell
  • D. Hall

Explanation: Hale means healthy, and the fixed expression is “hale and hearty.” Hail means frozen precipitation or a call to someone, while hell and…

Correct answer: Hale
Hard
  • A. raising
  • B. rising
  • C. growing
  • D. lifting

Explanation: Prices “rise” by themselves, whereas people “raise” prices or other things.

Correct answer: rising
Moderate
  • A. Thiefs
  • B. Thiefes
  • C. Thievse
  • D. Thieves

Explanation: The plural of “thief” changes the final “f” sound to “v” and takes “-es,” producing “thieves.” The other forms do not follow this spelling…

Correct answer: Thieves
Moderate
  • A. Harrass
  • B. Harass
  • C. Harras
  • D. Herrass

Explanation: The correct spelling is “harass,” with one “r” and two “s” letters. “Harrass” incorrectly doubles the first consonant.

Correct answer: Harass
Hard
  • A. Perseverance
  • B. Persevarance
  • C. Perceverence
  • D. Perseverence

Explanation: The correct spelling is perseverance, meaning continued effort despite difficulty. The middle sequence is -sever-, not -sevar- or -cever-.

Correct answer: Perseverance
Moderate
  • A. Brutility
  • B. Brutality
  • C. Brutelity
  • D. Brutilety

Explanation: The correct spelling is brutality, formed from brutal with the suffix -ity.

Correct answer: Brutality
Moderate
  • A. hare
  • B. heir
  • C. hair
  • D. here

Explanation: An heir is a person who is legally entitled to receive someone’s property or fortune.

Correct answer: heir
  • A. Monotransitive
  • B. Ditransitive
  • C. Complex transitive
  • D. Reflexive transitive

Explanation: Complex transitive verb is a verb that requires both a direct object and an object compliment. E.g., "They" named "their" new baby Giada.

Correct answer: Complex transitive
  • A. I asked them to leave their luggage at the hotel room.
  • B. I asked them to leave their luggages at the hotel room.
  • C. I asked them to leave one's luggage at the hotel's room.
  • D. I asked them to leave their luggages at the room of the hotel.

Explanation: - "Luggage" is an uncountable noun, which means it refers to a general category of items (in this case, suitcases, bags, etc.) rather than…

Correct answer: I asked them to leave their luggage at the hotel room.
  • A. Write
  • B. For
  • C. Make
  • D. Approaching
  • E. Bushes

Explanation: Option A is correct. This option is correct. Write is a misspelling of right, which refers to the direction from which the traffic is…

Correct answer: Write
  • A. suit
  • B. suite
  • C. dress
  • D. gown

Explanation: A suit is a set of matching garments typically consisting of a jacket and trousers.

Correct answer: suit
  • A. Discremination
  • B. Discrimenation
  • C. Discrimination
  • D. Disscrimnation

Explanation: The correct answer is Option C: Discrimination. This spelling accurately reflects the standard English form of the word.

Correct answer: Discrimination
  • A. Mnemonics
  • B. Mnenomics
  • C. Nemonics
  • D. Nenomics

Explanation: Mnemonics is the correctly spelled word for memory aids or memory techniques. The initial combination mn is retained, as in mnemonic.

Correct answer: Mnemonics
  • A. pedagogical
  • B. pediagogical
  • C. pedagogcial
  • D. padegogical

Explanation: Pedagogical is the correctly spelled word, meaning related to teaching or education. The other forms wrongly arrange or omit letters.

Correct answer: pedagogical
  • A. Temparary
  • B. Temperary
  • C. Temporary
  • D. Temprary

Explanation: Temporary is spelled with the sequence “-porary,” as in temporary work. The extra or missing vowels in the other forms make them incorrect.

Correct answer: Temporary
  • A. Encyclopedia
  • B. Encyeklopedia
  • C. Ensyclopedia
  • D. Encycloopedia

Explanation: The standard spelling is encyclopedia, with “-pedia” at the end. The other forms contain incorrect letter sequences or extra letters.

Correct answer: Encyclopedia
  • A. Knowladge
  • B. Knowlidge
  • C. Knowledge
  • D. Knwoledge

Explanation: Knowledge is spelled with “know” followed by “ledge,” giving knowledge.

Correct answer: Knowledge
  • A. Happened
  • B. Hapened
  • C. Happend
  • D. Hapend

Explanation: Happened has a double “p” and a single “n” before the “ed” ending. The alternatives omit or misplace one of these letters.

Correct answer: Happened