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Number your paper from 1-20. Fill in the suitable prepositions.
(Question numbers are in RED).

Your Name :

1. The film leaves the viewer (1) a warmhearted feeling towards the immates.

2. "The Shawshank Redemption " is one of the few films this year to refrain (2) insulting the viewers.

3. This film is considered the dark horse (3) the Best Picture Oscar.

4. Andy is sentenced (4) murder to two life terms in Maine's Shawshank prison.

5. Red and Andy share a value system that is rooted (5) restraint.

6. Chris settles (6) the monotony of life without hope.

7. It is a routine (7) explosions alternating (8) boredom.

8. This is an extraordinary movie (9) hope,friendship,and suffering in life.

9. The film is carefully constructed and shot (10) an even pace.

10. Freeman's Red is the anchor that keeps us from sinking (11) a sea of emotion.

11. Cissy bets (12) a tall,lanky guy named Andy.

12. He is thrown (13) solitary confinement.

13. Grey was sick (14) the bureaucracy the Roman Catholic Church had become.

14. He is constantly losing the battle (15) his parishioners.

15. Matthew was dedicated to liberating the lower-class English congregation (16) the class structure that oppresses them.

16. The story is told (17) flashback.

17. The plot is unpredictable up (18) the credits roll.

18. There are 2 elements crucial (19) an effective trick.

19. "The Usual Suspects ",can be viewed as the cinematic equivalent (20) a magic trick.

20. June and Henry deserve praise (21) their effort.

Sentences and Fragments

Number your paper from 1-12. Identify each number as either a (S)entence or a (F)ragment. Click on the button near the bottom to check your answers.

1. Because of the intense storm and the sudden drop in temperature.

2. To raise money for the new hospital.

3. Making ends meet was not easy.

4. By painting the room a bright yellow.

5. A roaring fire swept through a nearby house.

6. The one with the orange and purple stripes.

7. The head of the English Department at Franklin and Marshall University.

8. The celebration had almost begun.

9. Racing to the bus stop at the corner of Concorde Street and Evergreen Avenue.

10. Even though our reports are not due until Friday.

11. Earthquakes often occur in Japan.

12. Unless you hear from us before the weekend.

Exercises:

A.  Fill in the gaps with a, an, some, any or -- (if no article is required).

  1.  I need __________ volunteer to sweep the sitting-room and the kitchen.

  2.  Let's buy __________ grapes for the party.

  3.  May I have __________ water, please?

  4.  There aren't __________ strawberries.

  5.  It was __________ easy exam. Everybody passed it.

  6.  There is __________ lady at the door who asks for you.

  7.  We don't have __________ coke.

  8.  She hasn't got __________ friends

  9.  "Are there __________ trees?"

       "No, there aren't __________ (trees). It's a desert place."

10.  __________ elephants never forget.

B.  Fill in the gaps with a, an, some, any, the or -- (if no article is required).

  1.  __________ onions aren't in __________ cellar. They are in __________ kitchen.

  2.  __________ whales and __________ elephants are __________ biggest mammals on earth.

  3.  There were __________ books and __________ comics. __________ books were broken, but __________ comics weren't.

  4.  "Could you give me __________ sweets, granny?"

       "Of course, love!"

  5.  I've lost __________ crayons I bought yesterday.

  6.  She hates __________ garlic, but I love it.

  7.  We would like to spend __________ week in Barcelona.

  8.  __________ pollution is destroying __________ earth.

  9.  There isn't __________ apple juice left. Let's buy __________ (apple juice).

10.  "Did they drink __________ wine?"

       "No, they didn't."

Grammar Exam

Matching

a.	Main idea of paragraph or essay	m.	The action of a sentence; there are 3 types - action, linking, and helping
b.	Word or words a pronoun refers to	n.	Related words without subject & verb
c.	Theft of another's word or ideas	o.	Subject & verb same in number & person
d.	Word with opposite meaning to another	p.	Used to relate ideas by linking sentences to move ideas along
e.	Arrangement of words in sentence	q.	What remains of sentence when subject is removed
f.	Verbs used as nouns	r.	Connects parts of a sentence, for example and, but, or, etc.
g.	An exclamation!	s.	Modifies verb, adjective, or another adverb
h.	Takes the place of a noun	t.	Group of sentences unified by main idea
i.	Frequently receives the action of verb	u.	Describes a relationship between other words in a sentence, locates things in time and place
j.	Sequence of related words within sentence, has a subject and verb	v.	Word (s) used to complete sense of verb
k.	Name of a person, place or thing	w.	Word with similar meaning to another
l.	Modifies a noun or pronoun

Interjection

Gerund

Predicate

Clause

Pronoun

Antecedent

Word order or syntax

Noun

Preposition

10.

Transition

11.

Adverb

12.

Paragraph

13.

Thesis, topic, central theme

14.

Conjunction

15.

Agreement

16.

Adjective

17.

Antonym

18.

Phrase

19.

Direct object

20.

Verb

21.

Plagiarism

22.

Synonym

23.

Complement

Critical Reading Exercise

Critical reading is the ability to evaluate the credibility of a piece of writing. All writers have a purpose when they write, and usually, a writer will choose or emphasize facts and details which support his or her purpose, and ignore facts which don't. As a good reader, you need to be aware of that.

In this exercise, you will see a number of quotations from different "interest groups" or "lobbies". A lobby or interest group is a group of people who have a common interest and who work together to publicize and promote their point of view. In the exercise, you will read quotations from five lobbies:

	The forestry industry: The forestry industry makes money from cutting down trees. Therefore, they want to be able to continue to cut trees, and they want to discourage any alternative ways of producing pulp and paper.
	The environmentalists: The environmental lobby want to protect the forests against logging companies, so they would like to show how destructive logging is, and how valuable the forests are.
	The hemp farming lobby: The hemp farmers would like the fibre hemp plant to be legal so that they can grow it. They want to show how useful it is for making paper and other products, and they would like people to understand the difference between the marijuana plant and the fibre hemp plant.
	The marijuana legalization lobby: These people would like marijuana to be legal. They are interested in linking the fibre hemp plant with marijuana, because they think it may be possible to legalize BOTH kinds of plant. They want to show how useful industrial hemp is, and at the same time, they want to convince people that marijuana is harmless.
	The Canadian government: The Canadian government has just legalized industrial hemp, but they want to keep marijuana illegal, so they want to show that it is dangerous. They also get lots of taxes from the forestry industry, so they do not want to restrict logging too much.

Your task in this exercise is to identify which group each quotation comes from.

Click on the answer you think is correct.


1. "The rainforests are quite simply the richest, oldest, most productive and most complex ecosystems on Earth."
a)	the forestry industry
b)	the environmentalists
c)	the hemp farming lobby
d)	the marijuana legalization lobby

2. "Some have calculated that if Canada converted the entire pulp and paper production in Canada to hemp, it would be necessary to plant hemp over 18% of the country."
a)	the forestry industry
b)	the marijuana lobby
c)	the environmentalists
d)	the hemp farming lobby

3. "Farmers... can grow hemp without pesticide or herbicide application because it grows quickly and is not likely to fall to disease."
a)	the Canadian government
b)	the hemp farming lobby
c)	the forestry industry
d)	the marijuana legalization lobby

4. "Each year, forest fires destroy more forests than are used for making pulp and paper."
a)	the environmentalists
b)	the Canadian government
c)	the hemp farming lobby
d)	the forestry industry

5. "Decriminalizing cannabis could well result in a greater use of the drug by Canadians, thereby increasing the health and safety hazards associated with it."
a)	the marijuana legalization lobby
b)	the hemp farming lobby
c)	the Canadian government
d)	the environmentalists

6. "The government added marijuana in 1923 to The Opium Act of 1908 without any health concerns inherent in the law whatsoever. The Opium Act was introduced as a purely racist measure to deport and jail Chinese-Canadians."
a)	the hemp farming lobby
b)	the Canadian government
c)	the forestry industry
d)	the marijuana legalization lobby

7. "67% of the fibre used to make Canadian pulp and paper comes from sawmill residue and recovered paper that used to be disposed of in landfills."
a)	the environmentalists
b)	the hemp farming lobby
c)	the forestry industry
d)	the marijuana legalization lobby

8. "Hemp is about business and the environment. Marijuana is a moral question about the government's control of what drugs people consume. These two questions have nothing in common but the shape of the leaf, and we have to separate the issues."
a)	the hemp farming lobby
b)	the marijuana legalization lobby
c)	the forestry industry
d)	the Canadian government

9. "In the Vancouver Grasstown Riot, of 1971, police attacked and injured hundreds of peaceful marijuana smokers in one day."
a)	the marijuana legalization lobby
b)	the forestry industry
c)	the Canadian government
d)	the hemp farming lobby

10. "Logging is still the biggest employer and the single biggest contributor to tax revenue in BC."
a)	the hemp farming lobby
b)	the forestry industry
c)	the Canadian government
d)	the hemp farming lobby