EXERCISE
PBIBK 4
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4SA01
Choose the INCORRECT answer, then
give the CORRECTION and EXPLANATION!
1.
Zoos in
New Orleans, San Diego, Detroit, and the Bronx have become biological
A
parks where animals roams free and
people watch from across a moat.
B C D
Incorrect answer: C
Correction and explanation:
It should be roam because due
to plural subject which is animals, then the verb must be without –s ending.
2.
George has
not completed the assignment yet, and Maria hasn’t neither
A B C D
Incorrect answer: D
Correction and explanation:
It should be hasn’t either
because neither = not either, so both
not (hasn’t) and neither can’t be used together. Besides,
if we want to use neither there must
be followed by nor.
3.
Hanny
enjoyed to be able to meet several Congress members
during her vacation.
A B C D
Incorrect answer: A
Correction and explanation:
It should be being because
enjoyed must be followed by gerund, thus to
be is change into being.
4.
No one
would have attended the lecture if you told the
truth about the guest speaker.
A B C D
Incorrect answer: B
Correction and explanation:
The correct answer should be had
told due to the form of “if” conditional type 3 (would have attended + if +
had told) which tell a past unreal condition.
5.
Marie has
registered for both the afternoon anthropology class as well as
A B
the evening
sociology lecture.
C D
Incorrect answer: B
Correction and explanation:
It
should be and. Because both followed
by and. Both and as well as are two separate usage items that should not be mixed
together.
6.
Compact
discs are affected neither by scratching and by dust.
A B C D
Incorrect answer: D
Correction and explanation:
Because ‘neither...nor’ is correlative conjunction, thus the answer
should be nor instead of and.
7.
Plastics
used to make textiles can be drawn into fine threads, then woven
or knit
A B C D
into
fabrics.
Incorrect answer: D
Correction and explanation:
The correct answer must be knitted.
Because it must be parallel with the verb before which is in past participle form.
8.
Henry
David Thoreau stressed the importance in individuality and of living
A B
in harmony with
nature.
C D
Incorrect answer: B
Correction and explanation:
It should be
living. Because it must be parallel
with the word before, which is the
importance in individuality function as noun in the sentence should be followed by noun too (living in harmony).
9.
The coach
was depending
for his team to win the
game so that they would have a
A B C
chance to play in the
Super Bowl.
D
Incorrect answer: A
Correction and explanation:
The answer should be depending on.
Because depend is a verb with specified preposition called phrasal verb.
10. According to Freud, mental life is characterized
by internal conflicts who are largely
A B C D
unconscious.
Incorrect answer: C
Correction and explanation:
The word who must be which. Because the subject ‘internal conflict’ is non personal in adjective
clause. Then it should be which because it
refers to mental life.
