NCO Primary Leadership Subjects
Lesson 3, Section II, Practice Exercise Answer Key and
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B. Modifiers are sentence expanders. (Page 3-31)
Item 1
C. "Having arrived late, the play had already started," is an example of a dangling
Item 2
modifier. (Page 3-33)
A. "It is requested that you sign and return three copies of this form," is an example
Item 3
of expletive construction. (Page 3-23)
D. "The men set up the tent in the field that they took from the truck." is an example
Item 4
of a misplaced modifier. (Page 3-32)
B. "The men set up in the field the tent that they took from the truck," most clearly
Item 5
revises the previous example. (Page 3-32)
C. "Those ladies and this man did not get his lunch," is an example of faulty
Item 6
pronoun use because his does not agree with the antecedents. (Page 3-34)
D. "Swimming is good exercise and is relaxing," is an example of parallelism.
Item 7
(Page 3-34)
A. "The doors had and will be open when you arrive," is an example of an omitted
Item 8
helping verb. (Page 3-35)
C. "They were both friendly and helpful to the new arrivals," is an example of an
Item 9
omitted preposition. (Page 3-36)
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Writing Mechanics and Composition
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