Instructions: Choose the appropriate option for each of the following sentences:

Question 1:

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is ________ Disability Studies scholar who _________ about disability narratives.
a) the / write
b) some / writes
c) an / write
d) a / writes

Question 2:

Werner Heisenberg ________ the philosophical problems related to the theory of elementary particles.
a) consider
b) considers
c) writes
d) write

Question 3:

The dominant culture’s secularization of nature ________ Joe Sheridan who ________ a return to some of the values of the native culture.
a) worry / believes
b) worry / believe
c) disturbs / suggests
d) disturb / suggest

Question 4:

Richard Wagamese ________ that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission must _______ the healing stories of indigenous people.
a) argue / hears
b) argues / hear
c) dreams / feels
d) dream / feel

Question 5:

When the investigation was completed, the action of the supervisor ________ deemed appropriate.
a) was
b) were
c) is
d) can be

Question 6:

Each book, journal, and magazine in the library ________ own entry. The librarian as well as the students ________ that this system _______ well.
a) has its / suggest / works
b) have their / suggest / works
c) have their / suggests /work
d) has its / suggests / works

Question 7:

Every person in the community should have a voice and right to articulate ________ opinions without judgment.
a) their
b) his
c) his or her
d) there

Question 8:

Genre theory ________ that writing speaks to and even embodies the cultural situation in which ________.
a) argues / they arise
b) argue / they arises
c) argue / it arises
d) argues / it arises

Question 9:

News reports about the event did not give any specific details about how many citizens ________ involved.
a) were
b) are
c) will be
d) was

Question 10:

The people from the small seaside town ________back the floods in the morning, but ________ to evacuate the area later in the day.
a) are fighting / are forced
b) fought / were forced
c) fought / was forced
d) are forced / will be forced

Question 11:

Over the years, several world-class hockey players, such as Maurice Richard, ________ spectacular careers inducting ________ in Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.
a) have had / them
b) had / him
c) has had / them
d) had / him or her

Question 12:

Watson and Crick ________ different theories of DNA structure.
a) discusses
b) discuss
c) discuss’es
d) discussion about

Question 13:

Change the following sentence from passive to active voice by picking one of the options below: Rhetoric, or the art of using language persuasively, is used by writers to communicate successfully to readers.
a) Rhetoric (the art of using language persuasively) is used by writers to communicate successfully to readers.
b) Writers use rhetoric (the art of using language persuasively) to communicate successfully to readers.
c) The art of using language persuasively or rhetoric is used to communicate successfully to readers.
d) Rhetoric, or the art of using language persuasively, is what readers want from a writer.

Higher Education

Writing in the Academic Disciplines: Subject-Verb Agreement, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Verb Tense, and Voice