Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST) - Writing Section v1.0

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Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
Who knows who will be the winner?

  • A. No error
  • B. Whom knows who
  • C. Who knew whom
  • D. Who knows whom
  • E. Whom knows whom


Answer : A

Explanation: Since in both cases who is being used as the subject of a clause, this form is correct.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct answer.
When he emerged from the pool, wondering how good he had done, he immediately looked to the clock.

  • A. wondering if he had done good,
  • B. No error
  • C. wondering how well he had done,
  • D. wondering well, had he done good,
  • E. done wondering he had done well,


Answer : C

Explanation: Since it is being used as the object of he had done, the correct form is well.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
Until you learn the intricacies of the trade, one cannot be qualified to make a judgment.

  • A. No error
  • B. you can not be qualified
  • C. one canג€™t be qualified
  • D. you cannot be qualified
  • E. one can not be qualified


Answer : D

Explanation: In order to agree with the first part of the sentence, you must be used.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
Without making a sound Geoffrey crept down the stairs.

  • A. No error
  • B. sound; Geoffrey crept
  • C. sound, Geoffrey crept
  • D. sound, crept Geoffrey
  • E. sound Geoffrey, crept


Answer : C

Explanation: The dependent clause needs to be separated with a comma.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
At seventeen he shipped as a cabin boy, bound for Liverpool.

  • A. No error
  • B. a cabin boy; bound
  • C. a cabin boy: bound for
  • D. a cabin boy ג€" bound for
  • E. a cabin boy ג€" for bound


Answer : A

Explanation: Comma is required to separate the clause.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct answer.
The story is set in Boston, in colonial times when much of the land was undeveloped.

  • A. No error
  • B. Boston in colonial times when
  • C. Boston, in colonial times: when
  • D. Boston, in colonial times, when
  • E. Boston; in colonial times, when


Answer : D

Explanation: The clause needs to be separated with commas.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
Hector was known as ג€Slimג€, because of his gaunt appearance.

  • A. No error
  • B. known as ג€Slim because
  • C. known as ג€Slimג€ because
  • D. known as Slim because
  • E. known as ג€Slimג€; because


Answer : C

Explanation: A comma is not necessary, but if it is used it should be inside the quotation marks.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
He had just come to the bridge; and not looking where he was going; he tripped over something.

  • A. No error
  • B. where he was going: he tripped
  • C. where he was going. He tripped
  • D. where he was going, he tripped
  • E. where he was going he tripped


Answer : D

Explanation: Only a comma is needed to separate the dependent clause.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
It went on raining, and every day it got a little higher.

  • A. No error
  • B. on raining: and every day
  • C. raining on, and every day
  • D. on raining, every day
  • E. raining on; and every day


Answer : A

Explanation: The original sentence is correct.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
Suddenly she, laughed as she remembered a story she had been told.

  • A. No error
  • B. laughed as she
  • C. she laughed; as she
  • D. she laughed as she
  • E. she laughed as, she


Answer : D

Explanation: No punctuation is necessary.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
When began the snow he was asleep.

  • A. No error
  • B. the snow, began
  • C. the snow began
  • D. began, the snow
  • E. the beginning snow


Answer : C

Explanation: The word order should be altered to remove awkwardness.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
There will be a wide path, almost big enough for a car.

  • A. No error
  • B. Will there be a wide path,
  • C. Theyג€™re will be a wide path
  • D. There will not be a wide path,
  • E. Theyג€™re will be a wide path,


Answer : A

Explanation: The original sentence is correct.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
Then he dropped them both, and the big one landed first ג€" which he had thought it would do, and the little one landed second, which he had thought it would do.

  • A. No error
  • B. one landed first, which
  • C. one landed first: that
  • D. one landed first; which
  • E. one landed first ג€" that


Answer : B

Explanation: The punctuation should be the same for both of the parallel clauses.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
ג€I didnג€™t hear you.ג€ she exclaimed.

  • A. No error
  • B. hear you!ג€ she
  • C. hear you,ג€ she
  • D. hear you:ג€ she
  • E. hear you.ג€ She


Answer : C

Explanation: A comma is necessary if an attribution is going to be made.

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence below is correct or whether it needs to be revised. Choose the correct option.
They hopped down off the table; and went to go pick up the napkins.

  • A. No error
  • B. off the table: and went
  • C. off the table, went
  • D. off the table and went
  • E. off the table, and went


Answer : D

Explanation: There is no need for punctuation to separate these two continuous actions.

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