English Grammar Quiz: Incorrect Written Expression
25 Questions
| Total Attempts: 2814
Choose the INCORRECT underlined words or phrases.
Questions and Answers
- 1.Ceramics can be harder, light, and more resistant to heat than metals.
- A.
Light
- B.
Resistant
- C.
Heat
- D.
Metal
- 2..Not everyone realizes that the most largest organ of the human body is the skin.
- A.
Not everyone
- B.
That
- C.
Most largest
- D.
Human
- 3.Mold is extremely destruction to books in a library.
- A.
Extremely
- B.
Destruction
- C.
Books
- D.
A library
- 4.Sidney Lanier achieved fame both as a poet or as a symphony musician.
- A.
Achieved
- B.
As
- C.
Or
- D.
Musician
- 5.The horses used play polo are not of any special breed or of any definite size.
- A.
Horses
- B.
Play
- C.
Special
- D.
Definite
- 6.A tapestry consists of a foundation weave, called the warp, which across are passed different colored threads, called the weft, forming decorative patterns.
- A.
Consists
- B.
Which across
- C.
Colored
- D.
Patterns
- 7.The works of early American woodcarvers had many artistic qualities, but these craftsmen probably did not think of them as artists.
- A.
Works
- B.
Many
- C.
Did not
- D.
Them
- 8.Perhaps mankind's first important musical influence were the songs of birds.
- A.
First
- B.
Musical
- C.
Were
- D.
Birds
- 9.The techniques of science and magic are quite different, but their basic aims-to understand and control nature-they are very similar.
- A.
Magic
- B.
Different
- C.
To understand
- D.
They are
- 10.It was in a cave near Magdalena, New Mexico, when the oldest known ears of were discovered.
- A.
When
- B.
Oldest
- C.
Known
- D.
Discovered
- 11.The fossil remains of much extinct mammals have been found in the tar pits at Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles.
- A.
Much
- B.
Mammals
- C.
Found
- D.
In
- 12.Sharks can detect minute electrical discharges coming from its prey.
- A.
Can detect
- B.
Electrical
- C.
Coming
- D.
Its
- 13.A dark nebula consists of a cloud of interstellar dust enough dense to obscure the stars beyond it.
- A.
A cloud of
- B.
Enough dense
- C.
Obscure
- D.
Beyond
- 14.Commercially honey is heated and filtered in order to stabilize and clarify it.
- A.
Commercially
- B.
Filtered
- C.
Stabilize
- D.
It
- 15.The various parts of the body require so different surgical skills that many surgical specialties have developed.
- A.
Various
- B.
So
- C.
Surgical
- D.
Many
- 16.One reason birds have been so successful is because of their able to escape from danger quickly.
- A.
Have been
- B.
Because
- C.
Able
- D.
Quickly
- 17.The wood of the rosewood tree is used to do fine musical instruments.
- A.
Wood
- B.
Is used
- C.
Do
- D.
Musical
- 18.Chemical engineering is based on the principles of physics, chemists, and mathematics.
- A.
On
- B.
Principles
- C.
Chemists
- D.
Mathematics
- 19.Ballet performers must be believable actors and actresses as well as experts dancers.
- A.
Must be
- B.
Actors
- C.
As well
- D.
Experts
- 20.Venus, the second planet from the Sun, is exactly almost the same size as the Earth.
- A.
The second
- B.
From
- C.
Exactly almost
- D.
Same size
- 21.P T. Barnum opened his own circus in 1871 and become the most famous showman of his time.
- A.
His own
- B.
Become
- C.
Most famous
- D.
Time
- 22.The way a child plays with other children reveals a lots about the child's emotional development.
- A.
Plays with
- B.
A lots
- C.
The child's
- D.
Development
- 23.Sheep have been domesticated for over 5,000 years ago.
- A.
Have been
- B.
Domesticated
- C.
Over
- D.
Years ago
- 24.Chemical compounds with barium, cobalt, and strontium are responsible to many of the vivid colors in fireworks.
- A.
With
- B.
Are
- C.
To
- D.
Colors
- 25.Duke University in North Carolina has an outstanding collecting of documents concerning Southern history.
- A.
Has
- B.
Collecting
- C.
Concerning
- D.
History
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