[Englecturers] Diagnostic Test Answers

Thu Sep 28 11:25:09 PDT 2006

Here are the diagnostic answers for Write It!

Joshua Fenton

Diagnostic Test #1 includes the following sections: Regular/Irregular verb
usage, subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement and reference, Dangling
modifiers, fused sentences, fragments, parallelism, adjectives/adverbs,
capitalization, and apostrophes.

Diagnostic Test #2 includes the following sections: fragments, run-on
sentences, standard and irregular verb use, subject/verb agreement,
parallelism, and illogical shifts.

Diagnostic Test #1

Regular/Irregular Verbs

1.	was / born
2.	was
3.	set
4.	became
5.	performed

Subject/Verb Agreement

6.	is
7.	has
8.	is
9.	agree
10.	apply

Pronoun Agreement

11.	them
12.	it has
13.	his
14.	they are
15.	they spark

Pronoun Reference

16. who

17. him

18. whom / have

19. Macbeth

20. them

Dangling Modifiers

21. B

22. A

23. A

24. A

25. A

Run-On Sentences

26. A

27. B

28. A

29. B

30. B

Comma Splice

31. B

32. A

33. A

34. B

35. A

Fragments

36. B

37. A

38. A

39. B

40. B

Parallelism

41. geographical

42. makes

43. Rambling

44. go

45. vengeance

Adjectives/Adverbs

46. well

47. strictly

48. dearly

49. furtive

50. rashly

Capital Letters

51. father

52. insane

53. old songs

54. Laertes

55. mistake

Apostrophes

56. Claudius's

57. It's / Hamlet's

58. apologies

59. Claudius's

60. Claudius's / Gertrude's / Hamlet's / Laertes's

Diagnostic Test #2

Fragments

1.	X
2.	C
3.	C
4.	X
5.	X

Run-On Sentence

6.	X
7.	C
8.	X
9.	C
10.	X

Standard Verbs

11.	C
12.	X
13.	X
14.	X
15.	C

Irregular Verbs

16.	X
17.	X
18.	C
19.	X
20.	X

Subject/Verb Agreement

21. X

22. X

23. X

24. C

25. X

Parallelism

26. X

27. X

28. C

29. X

30. C

Illogical Shifts

31. X

32. X

33. X

34. C

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