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Instructions:
I. Get out the notes where
you've been keeping your assessment review answers.
II. Click the link to open a new window with the web page, Writing
Style by the University of Teesside (http://dissc.tees.ac.uk/Writing/Style/Style-Print.htm)
and scroll down to the heading "Formal or Informal?" Read the paragraph
and examples that follow. After that bit, read as much as you want to know
or need explained.
III. Then, return to this page to answer the questions below on your paper.
1. Revise the following sentence for an informal
style. Choose the sentence that best incorporates the necessary changes
to style and maintains the original meaning of the sentence.
For a frog, the act of leaping at the wrong moment can result in finding
oneself in the digestive tract of a large fish.
(c) iconBAZAAR.com
Revise the sentence to an informal style.
(A) The act of leaping at the wrong moment can land one in the digestive
tract of a large fish for a frog.
(B) According to frogs, the act of leaping at the wrong moment can result
in digestion by a fish.
(C) For a frog, leaping at the wrong moment can lead to being digested by
a large fish.
(D) The act of leaping at the wrong moment, frogs might want to know, can
result in digestion by a large fish.
2. Go to the Salt
Lake Tribune Online and read the first sentence of the article, Memorial
Day Camping. (http://www.sltrib.com/outdoors/ci_2744450).
Choose the best way to revise the sentence without changing
its meaning.
Camping...
(A) could be iffy --if not impossible-- in some popular U. S. Forest Service
facilities due to Utah's wet, late spring for the Memorial Day.
(B) for the Memorial Day weekend could be iffy or impossible in some popular
U. S. Forest Services facilities due to Utah's wet, late spring.
(C) for the Memorial Day weekend could be made iffy or impossible by Utah's
wet, late spring in some popular U S. Forest Service facilities.
(D) could be made impossible--thanks to Utah's wet, late spring.
(c) Ian Britton - FreeFoto.com
3. Seventy-five students took a multiple choice
quiz that included the following question:
If this month's weather produces an exceptionally wet spring, then
we might have a larger frog population then last year.
Which of these is the best revision of the underlined part
of the sentence?
(A) then; than
(B) than; then
(C) correct as it is
(D) than; than
Below is a chart of the students' answers. Look it over. What percentage
of the students got the question incorrect?
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
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| 14 |
(A) |
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| 40 |
(B) |
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| 18 |
(C) |
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| 3 |
(D) |
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