NCO Primary Leadership Subjects
Lesson 3, Section II, Practice Exercise
The following items test your knowledge of the material covered in this section.
Instructions
Circle the letter of the correct response for each item. When you complete the
exercise, check your answers with the answer key and feedback sheet that follows.
If you respond to any item incorrectly, study the material and try the item again.
Item 1
Which of the following are sentence expanders?
A. Qualifiers.
B. Modifiers.
C. Idioms.
E. Expletives.
"Having arrived late, the play had already started," is an example of which of the
Item 2
following?
A.
Misplaced modifier.
B.
Mixed construction.
C.
Dangling modifier.
D.
Ambiguous modifier.
"It is requested that you sign and return three copies of this form," is an example of
Item 3
which of the following?
A.
Expletive construction.
B.
Passive voice.
C.
Faulty pronoun reference.
D.
Parallel construction.
"The men set up the tent in the field that they took from the truck," is an example of
Item 4
which of the following?
A.
Ambiguous modifier.
B.
Mixed construction.
C.
Passive voice.
D.
Misplaced modifier.
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