GED Language Arts - Writing (Essay Writing Exam) Sample Questions:

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Sentence 9:Normally we try to pay invoices within twenty days of receiving them, in this case, we will not pay any of the charges until you have provided us with a clear explanation of the bill.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose optionA.

A) them in this case,
B) them, in this case, although
C) them in this case.However,
D) them, in this case,
E) them, but in this case

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Sentence I am a long-time resident of this city and who wishes to respond to your editorial of May 24.If you rewrote sentence 1 beginning withAs a long-time resident of this city,

A) May 24, your editorial in wishing to respond
B) your May 24 editorial is responding
C) and I respond with a wish
D) I wish to respond
E) your editorial to respond to

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Comics:A Window on Life
(A)

A) believed that comics was
B) believe that comics was
C) believe what comics was
D) When I was a child.B.A clergyman said that he read the comic strips in the daily paper every day.C.This amazed me because I believed that comics was for the young.D.I thought adults considered comics juvenile.E."But no,"he said."Comic strips can give you an insight into the human condition the way people think and behave." (6) Today, most would agree that he will be right.(7) The wide range of topics treated in the daily comic strips doesn't miss much about how people live their lives.
(B)
(8)
A popular comic strip subject is family life.(9) Strips on the family range from stay-athome parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there.(10) Some strips deal with sibling relationships.(11) Others explore adolescence and the stresses of children becoming more independent.(12) The humorous look at the role of husbands and wives in the family also makes for interesting reading.
(C)
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Pets have been playing an important role in comic strips.(14) Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip.(15) Who can resist a cynical self-centered cat or a lolloping, brainless dog, especially if it gets the better of the humans?
(D)
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Comic strips allow people to laugh at themselves and their very human failings.(17) A little light is brought into our lives by them for a brief moment each day.(18) They are also a barometer of popular culture, telling what the social trends are and how some people regard them.(19) If the comic strips suddenly disappeared from the newspapers, society would lose a valuable piece of its culture.
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Sentence This amazed me because I believed that comics was for the young.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the
best way, choose optionA.
E) believe that comics had been
F) believed that comics were

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Sentence Each year, about 250 fatal poisoning accidents in the United States alone is attributed to CO.
Which correction should be made to sentence 3?

A) change fatal to fatally
B) insert a comma after fatal
C) change is to are
D) change attributed to attribute
E) insert a comma after alone

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Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose optionA.

A) may be placed
B) may be placing
C) placed
D) had been placed
E) placing

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