Question

Can someome help me with like 12 Q's? Please! Will Fan & Medal!!

Answer 1

1. Which belongs in the work experience section of a résumé?
a. Fluent in Spanish, English, and Polish
b. Summer, 2010: Lifeguard, Texas Parks and Recreation Department, Dallas, Texas
c. Spring, 2010: Homecoming King, Portales High School, Eugene, Oregon
d. Third in the 2010 Daredevil Mountain Bike Race, Moab, Utah

Answer 2

2. Read the passage.
(1) Every summer, I visit my grandparents’ farm in Iowa. (2) When I am there, I help with some of the chores, such as weeding the vegetable garden and milking the cows. (3) I do not spend all my time working, however. (4) When the weather is good, I get together with some of the teenagers who live in the area, and we spend the day doing outdoor activities. (5) We play baseball, go swimming, and have picnics. (6) The days we go horseback riding are the best of all. (7) I love the feel of the wind in my hair, and I enjoy looking at the beautiful scenery.

Which is the most effective way to invert sentence (6) in order to vary sentence patterns?
Best of all are the days we go horseback riding.
Best of all, some days we go horseback riding.
Horseback riding days are the best of all.

Answer 3

3. Jack’s _____ behavior is a frequent topic of our conversation.

Which word gives Jack’s behavior the most negative connotation?
eccentric
obnoxious
peculiar
curious

Answer 4

4. Which sentence has an elliptical adverb clause with an understood word or words?


As we travel higher than does the sea level, the boiling point of water drops.
Mythl alcohol boils at a lower temperature than water.
Water turns into ice when the temperature is lowered to 32°F.

Answer 5

5. My friend Cheri won a medal. She earned the title “Athlete of the Games”.

Which sentence correctly combines the two sentences into a sentence with a compound verb?
Cheri, my friend, won a medal for being “Athlete of the Games”.
My friend Cheri won a medal, and she earned the title “Athlete of the Games”.
My friend Cheri won a medal and earned the title “Athlete of the Games”.
Winning a medal, my friend Cheri earned the title “Athlete of the Games”.

Answer 6

6. The new government acted more swiftly than the old to secure the rights of the colonists.

What is the degree of the adverb more swiftly in the sentence?
superlative
comparative
positive

Answer 7

7. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?


Buffalo grass seed: prefers warm soil temperatures; plant the seed during the hottest months of summer.
Buffalo grass seed prefers warm soil temperatures: Plant the seed during the hottest months of summer.
Buffalo grass seed prefers warm soil temperatures, plant the seed during the hottest months of summer.

Answer 8

8. _____ volunteers for this project will get credit for community service.

Which pronoun correctly completes the sentence?
Who
Whoever
Whom
Whomever

Answer 9

9. Which is an open-ended question that could be used to start a discussion?


Do you take the bus?
How many people take the bus?
What time does the last bus leave?
Why do you think the bus should run more often?

Answer 10

10. Laura and Richard rehearsed _____ song before the performance.

Which pronoun is correct if only Laura wrote the song?
her
our
their
his

Answer 11

I'll help with some.
3 is B, 9 is D, 10 is her.
Look up the definitions of those words for #3, look up the degrees in #6, and so on. Try to answer most of them yourself. :)

Answer 12

Thank-you soo much! I appreciate it!! (:

Answer 13

No problem. ^_^