Exercise 2
1. Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego,
Detroit, and the Bronx have become biological
A
parks where
animals roams free and people watch from across a moat.
B C D
It should be “roam free”
Reason: the subject (animals) is plural.
2. George has not completed the
assignment yet, and Maria hasn’t
neither
A B C D
It
should be “hasn’t either”
Reason: “hasn’t” is negative, therefore it should be
followed by “either”.
3. Hanny enjoyed to be able
to meet several Congress members during her vacation.
A B
C D
It
should be “being”
Reason: enjoyed should be followed by gerund
4. No one would have attended
the lecture if you told the truth about
A B C
the guest speaker.
D
It should be “had told”
Reason: The sentence above is If clause type 3, so
it should be if + had + Past participle.
5. Marie has registered for both
the afternoon anthropology class as well as
A B
The evening sociology lecture.
C D
It should be “and”
Reason: because “both” should be paired with “and”.
(correlative conjuction)
6. Compact discs are affected
neither by scratching and by dust.
A B C D
It
should be “nor”
Reason: “neither” should be paired with “nor”.
(correlative conjunction)
7. Plastics used to make textiles can be
drawn into fine threads, then woven or knit
A B C D
into fabrics.
It should be “knitted”
Reason: It must be parallel with the word before
(woven)
8. Henry David Thoreau stressed the
importance in individuality and of living
A B
in harmony with nature.
C D
It should be “the
importance of”
Reason: because "importance" is prepositional phrase, so it should be paired with "of".
9. The coach was depending for
his team to win the game so that they would have a
A B C
chance to play in the Super Bowl.
D
It should be “depending
on”
Reason: because "depending" is preposition so it should be followed by "on".
10. According
to Freud, mental life is characterized by internal conflicts who
are largely
A B C D
unconscious.
It
should be “which”
Reason: relative pronoun “who”
is used for people, meanwhile “internal conflicts” is a thing so we have to use
“which”.
