Nonrestrictive Elements and Parallel Structure — Unit test

Question 1

Read the sentence.While she slept the alarm kept ringing in Jamie's ear.According to The Elements of Style, what is the correct way to revise this sentence?

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While she slept, the alarm kept ringing in Jamie's ear.

Question 2

The final step of judging an advertisement’s effectiveness is to

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determine why it worked or why it did not.

Question 3

Read the excerpt from A Rumor of War. The tedium was occasionally relieved by a large-scale search-and-destroy operation, but the exhilaration of riding the lead helicopter into a landing zone was usually followed by more of the same hot walking, with the mud sucking at our boots and the sun thudding against our helmets while an invisible enemy shot at us from distant tree lines. The paradox in the excerpt illustrates the idea that

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danger could alleviate the monotony of war.

Question 4

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator.

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to suggest a familiarity and kinship with Walt Whitman and other outcasts

Question 5

Which sentence contains parallel structure?

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Derrick coached his sister’s soccer team and managed his brother’s baseball team.

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