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Which sentence must be revised to eliminate the preposition at the end?

A
The museum had the throne where the king sat on.
B
This is the beach umbrella we will be sitting under.
C
I missed class, so I asked the teacher what we talked about.
D
The concert starts at two, so I told him to meet me before.
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Which sentence contains a split infinitive?

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It is important to wear plenty of sunscreen at an outdoor swim meet.
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The coach tells the swimmers how to improve their performance.
P
Parents drive to the local swim club so they can watch the competition.
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Swimmers must be sure to completely follow all of the team guidelines.
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Read the excerpt from"Early Victorian Tea Set.”What could be more domestic, more unremarkable, more British, than a nice cup of tea? You could of course put the question the other way round and ask what could be less British than a cup of tea, given that tea is made from plants grown in India or China and often sweetened by sugar from the Caribbean. It is one of the ironies of British national identity – or perhaps it says everything about our national identity – that the drink which has become

I
Indian tea is more delicious than tea from China.
D
Drinking tea is very popular in the Caribbean.
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Many people around the world now drink tea, but Britain was the one to make it popular.
I
It is ironic that tea is the symbol of Britain when tea does not come from Britain at all.
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Which line would be best to include in a summary of "Early Victorian Tea Set”?

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British citizens should not have been so aggressive when planting tea in India.
B
Do you like to drink tea? Me, too! This chapter is about tea in Great Britain.
C
I disagree with MacGregor’s opinion that the quest for tea caused much violence worldwide.
D
MacGregor shows that the British desire for tea changed many nations around the world.
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Which excerpt from Early Victorian Tea Set best expresses MacGregor’s viewpoint about tea?

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“[W]hat could be less British than a cup of tea, given that tea is made from plants grown in India or China and often sweetened by sugar from the Caribbean.”
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“[T]he drink which has become the worldwide caricature of Britishness has nothing indigenous about it, but is the result of centuries of global trade and a complex imperial history.”
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“[R]uling classes had a real interest in promoting tea drinking among the growing urban population, who were poor, vulnerable to disease and perceived as prone to disorderly drunkenness.”
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“[S]laves in the Americas worked on sugar plantations, the start of the long and terrible triangular trade that carried European goods to Africa.”

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