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The questions for GED Writing were last updated at Nov 23,2024.
- Exam Code: GED Writing
- Exam Name: GED Essay Writing Exam
- Certification Provider: GED
- Latest update: Nov 23,2024
Sentence 6:You needed a surface thermometer and a supply of split hardwood, such as maple or birch.
Which correction should be made to sentence 6?
- A . replace You with They
- B . change needed to will need
- C . insert a comma after thermometer
- D . insert a comma after as
- E . insert a comma after maple
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Sentence 10:Furthermore, in almost 90 percent of the CO calls reported to utilities and fire departments in the mid-1990s, the levels found were to low to affect the average person.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose optionA.
- A . to low to affect
- B . to low to effect
- C . to low, to affect
- D . too low to effect
- E . too low to affect
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Comics:A Window on Life
(A)
- A . When I was a child.B.A clergyman said that he read the comic strips in the daily paper every day.C.This amazed me because I believed that comics was for the young.D.I thought adults considered comics juvenile.E."But no,"he said."Comic strips can give you an insight into the human condition the way people think and behave." (6) Today, most would agree that he will be right.(7) The wide range of topics treated in the daily comic strips doesn’t miss much about how people live their lives.
(B)
(8) A popular comic strip subject is family life.(9) Strips on the family range from stay-athome parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there.(10) Some strips deal with sibling relationships.(11) Others explore adolescence and the stresses of children becoming more independent.(12) The humorous look at the role of husbands and wives in the family also makes for interesting reading.
(C)
(13) Pets have been playing an important role in comic strips.(14) Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip.(15) Who can resist a cynical self-centered cat or a lolloping, brainless dog, especially if it gets the better of the humans?
(D)
(16) Comic strips allow people to laugh at themselves and their very human failings.(17) A little light is brought into our lives by them for a brief moment each day.(18) They are also a barometer of popular culture, telling what the social trends are and how some people regard them.(19) If the comic strips suddenly disappeared from the newspapers, society would lose a valuable piece of its culture. Sentence 9:Strips on the family range from stay-at-home parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there. The most effective revision of sentence 9 would include which group of words? - B . to taking the kids
- C . Joys and trials
- D . The kids went to
- E . trials.To when
- F . go wrong their
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Making a Budget
(A)
- A . Making a budget is very easy if you no the basic procedure and a few principles.B.First, writing down all your income for one month.C.Income, including your paycheck or other checks from Social Security and the government, means all the money you receive.D.Next, figure out all your regular monthly expenses.E.Rent and utilities are important regular expenses; you should also include expenses for food and medicine you take regularly.(6) You must not forget because they add up, the smaller monthly bills such as payments for credit cards, interest on loans, and insurance.
(B)
(7) You also should keep track of minor daily expenses because you probably spend more on them than you realize.(8) These includes purchases of such things as sodas, snacks, newspapers, magazines, and candy.(9) Add them up for a week and then multiply the weekly total by the number of weeks in the month to determine the total monthly cost.(10) Transportation costs, such as bus and subway fairs along with gasoline and tolls, should also be calculated as monthly expenses.
(C)
(11) Finally, it’s important to plan as much as possible for special expenses, such as visits to doctors and dentists and repairs to your home or car.(12) Gifts for such events as Christmas and birthdays are other kinds of expenses you can plan for certain months.(13) Other activities, such as celebrating a holiday or taking a vacation, often demand extra spending, too.(14) Some months may also require you according to the season to buy new clothes.(15) By preparing a budget in all these areas, you can figure out how much money you need for each month, this will help you watch your spending and may help you to save for the future. Sentence 10:Transportation costs, such as bus and subway fairs, along with gasoline and tolls, should also be calculated as monthly expenses.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose optionA. - B . fairs, along with gasoline
- C . fairs, along with gasoline,
- D . fairs, along with, gasoline,
- E . fares, along with gasoline
- F . fares, along with, gasoline,
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Sentence 1Wishing to thank you for the opportunity to discuss our common problems.
The most effective revision of sentence 12 would begin with which group of words?
- A . Wishing and thanking and giving
- B . I thank you for wishing
- C . I wish to thank you for
- D . Our common problems are a wish
- E . The opportunity to wish
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Sentence We want to help you taking care of all of your automotive needs.
Which correction should be made to sentence 1?
- A . change want to wants
- B . replace to with too
- C . change help to helping
- D . change taking to take
- E . insert a comma after care
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Sentence 1The holes should be at least three feet in diameter and two to two-and-a-half feet deep, which you can dig.
- A . three feet
- B . the holes that
- C . which should be
- D . should be at least
- E . the holes should be
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Sentence Each year, about 250 fatal poisoning accidents in the United States alone is attributed to CO.
Which correction should be made to sentence 3?
- A . insert a comma after fatal
- B . change fatal to fatally
- C . insert a comma after alone
- D . change is to are
- E . change attributed to attribute
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Sentence 20:If we continue to receive complaints regarding inappropriate workstation behavior, management, will have to find a better means of controlling the situation.
Which correction should be made to sentence 20?.
- A . insert a comma after complaints
- B . remove the comma after behavior
- C . remove the comma after management
- D . change will have to could have
- E . change of controlling to to controlling
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Sentence I am amazed you would support the city councils plan to widen Sycamore Street and turn it into a highway, a plan that will lead to much unhappiness and bear much criticism.
Which correction should be made to sentence 4?
- A . change councils to council’s
- B . insert a comma after Street
- C . remove the comma after highway
- D . replace lead with led
- E . no correction is necessary