Exam: 986028RR - WORD USAGE When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers‚ click Submit Exam. Answers will not be recorded until you hit Submit Exam. If you need to exit before completing the exam‚ click Cancel Exam. Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break‚ so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer. 1. Which of the following sentences
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them from far away. C. The dancer floated across the stage. D. The canoe with the blue stripes. 4. Which sentence contains repetitious words that should be left out? A. The bright star is visible. B. The bright star is visible to the eye. C. The star was visible centuries ago. D. The star will soon disappear. 5. Which sentence contains words in italics that form a gerund phrase? (A gerund is a verb form used the same way as a noun.) A. The laughing boy sat down. B. An interesting
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Comma Usage Although women’s college basketball in Connecticut is a marvelously entertaining and increasingly popular sport‚ it is not hard to remember when it was not so popular. Only a few years ago‚ my friends and I could decide on a Sunday afternoon to go to a women’s basketball game at the University of Connecticut‚ and believe it or not‚ we could get seats for free near centre court. Of course‚ that was before names such as Rebecca Lobo‚ Jennifer Rizzotti‚ Kara Wolters‚ and Carla Berube
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Internet usage and gender digital divide in a Romanian students’ sample (Codoban‚ 2005) This research focuses on analyzing gender differences in technology adoption and internet usage. As the global penetration rate of the internet increases‚ the tendency towards the narrowing of gender digital divide increases. Previous studies have shown that there is no gender difference in internet use in the USA and a rapid rise in the proportion of female internet users in China. From the study findings‚
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Internet Internet usage is a major controversy in today’s society. With technology expanding every second‚ it has affected people’s lives tremendously. Shopping online to communicating with people around the world is as easy as a click of a button. Although the Internet has made life more convenient‚ it also comes with major set backs that can affect lives in the future. The number one reason people use the Internet everyday is for communication. How many times a day do you find yourself
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Some of the same religions‚ or others who have entirely different beliefs‚ uphold a positive interpretation of cadaver usage or autopsies. Even though some Islamic beliefs portray autopsies and cadaver dissection as detrimental to the connection between God and the individual‚ as well as cruel to the thin line between the dead and the living‚ some interpretations single out why these processes are so necessary. This includes the Islamic “interpretation of the Sharia’s ideas about not performing
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which tobacco can also be used to smoke in as well. Cocaine is very addictive due to the stimulant‚ which causes the person to stay awake‚ have reduced appetite‚ and has the tendency to cause people to become annoyed‚ frustrated‚ and violent. The word crack refers to the sound you hear when it is being smoked. It can be made using baking soda or sodium hydroxide. Pure cocaine was introduced in the 1880’s for medical purposes such as eye‚ nose and throat surgeries and its ability to constrict blood
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Research Proposal Impact of Financial Derivatives Usage on Corporate Market Value: Evidence from Non-Financial Firms in China 1. Introduction Use of financial derivatives for hedging corporate risks purpose is becoming popular during the last two decades. International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) reports the notional amount outstanding of over the counter (OTC) derivatives increased by 25.6% from $511.1 trillion to $642.1 trillion over the five-year period ending December 31‚ 2012
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Polygraph Use i Should Polygraphs be used in Court Rooms as Admissible Evidence? Ebony Barr Psychology and the Legal System FP 6010 Professor Neely December ‚ 2010 Polygraph Use ii Abstract Polygraph is widely rejected as pseudoscience by the scientific community. Prior to 1998 state and county courts allowed or could allow polygraph evidence to be admissible evidence to convict or prove guilt. Polygraphs should not be used in Court Rooms‚ the accuracy of the
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More than half of Americans aged 25-29 now live in households with mobile phones but no traditional landline telephones‚ a December 2010 report on phone use by the US National Center for Health Statistics at the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has found. The same study also found that the younger children are‚ the likelier they are to live in homes that only have wireless phones‚ suggesting that younger parents are becoming increasingly reliant on mobile phones even as they adjust
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