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Answer Key 2:
Attacking “Improving Sentences” Questions
- C The original sentence is awkward and contains a dangling participle (Chapter 15, Lesson 7). Beingis the
participle, but the noun that it modifies does not follow the participial phrase. Furthermore, the logic
of the sentence is unclear. Choice (C) shows the essential cause-and-effect relationship. - C The original sentence contains a dangling participle(Chapter 15, Lesson 7). Committedis the participle,
and the participial phrase must be followed by the noun it modifies. Whoiscommitted?Certainly not
the use of standardized tests,but rather the administration.Notice that choice (E) is incorrect because it
contains subject-verb disagreement (Chapter 15, Lesson 1). - B The original sentence violates the Law of Parallelism (Chapter 15, Lesson 3). In a list, all items should,
as far as possible, have the same grammatical form. Choice (C) is parallel and concise, but it changes
the meaning of the sentence from the original, and uses the pronoun one’sinappropriately. - A The original sentence is best.