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 "Verb Forms" self-study quizzes

Quiz # 1

Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct

     

  1. The teacher has giving the students a new quiz every weekend.

       

          

  2. After talking to the police officer, the victim had able to get counseling at a

    clinic in San Bernardino.

                       

  3. Last year he said that he would told the story.

           

  4. I will have been marrying for six years this December.

     

  5. It is important to understand  that by 1980 he has already graduated from  High School.

                  

  6. Hiroko knows that Su Jen didn't finish a tests.

                 

  7. How long are you been living in San Bernardino?

                          

  8. All the people waving their fans either to keep the flies away or to cool off.

                             

  9. We might have known something, but the truth is that we didn't care.

                  

  10. Then there was that one hot August day when we decide to go see a movie.

                                        

  11. Fortunately, my friend had did better than  I.  He convinced his mother  to give us a ride to the movies.

           

  12. As I tasted the sticky paste of the envelope on my tongue, containing the               most important application I will have ever sent off, I felt feelings I never knew exist.

  13. Since I was in the fourth grade, I was fascinated with Australia.

                     

  14. Finally, several week  later, three weeks before my flight left, my mom received a phone call from Jennifer, IEF's representative.

                 

  15. My head buried in my mom's shoulder, I slowed down my breathing and hold back my tears, never lifting my head away from my mother's side.

                        

  16. I immediately rang the Sutherland's as soon as I got the word that everything was final. I spoke with Dione, who is closest to my age; we were fairly similar except our taste of music.

                                                     

  17. The closer it got, the more I seemed to cry. My tears were of joy, fright, and        confusion. With only about a week and a half until I would began my emotional and mental journey of a lifetime, I began to prepare by packing and shopping for last minute things.

                                   

  18. After that phone call, I was filling with anticipation.
                        
  19. My departure coming near, I had crying myself to sleep several times in my boyfriend's arms.

                              

  20. The excitement hitted me once again as we headed to the airport. I had

numbed myself in a way of many feelings; I wanted to cry and I wanted to smile, but I didn't do either.

 

Quiz # 2

Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct

        

  1. I know that I should have went over to the house that night.

              

  2. Women start their own business because  dissatisfaction of slow career advancement, unmet career expectations, organization down sizing, and to fulfill personal dreams, like being their own boss and achieving success in business.

  3. The difference between them is how they manage their business; women owners are more adaptive, has socially awareness, and possess experience in difference business areas.

  4. Whereas the women mention their business with the family need -- a way of integrating family and career needs--, men naturally notice economic reasons; they saw the ownership as a business decision.

     

  5. The measurements of entrepreneurial success is gross sales and market shares.

     

  6. The successful businesswomen not only have these previous cooperate field experience for their business, they are able to create long-term objectives, possess financial and communication skills, and generate new ideas.

     

  7. According to the article, the research showing that "male and female entrepreneurs are much more similar in personality characteristics, motivations for initiating a venture management styles, approaches to strategic management, values, and predictors of success than they are different

  8. Women who start their business seem to be at a disadvantage when compared with male entrepreneurs who supposed connections bring access to resources.

     

  9. Networking becomes a way for a business venture to gain access to resources such as information, advice and capital so that he/she may operates a new company.

     

  10. As a result of socialization, women may  more difficulty than men to separate personal feelings from business relationships.

     

  11. Connection of many diverse data sources are the advantage for them to survive and help their business to grow.

     

  12. Outside advisors such as bankers, lawyers, or information accountants advises and support sources that men rely on; their spouses are the secondary role.

     

  13. The critical determinant success factors for female and male entrepreneurs include good skills for management, drive and ambition, and an ability to exploit opportunities in areas of industry that business owners have important business experience.

     

  14. Both groups are similar in personality; however, women initiate their company as a life and career values strategy, while man are more concerned about the economic reasons.

     

  15. Women seek to enhance her skills in marketing and finance through training programs and adapt their own experience to help them to develop entrepreneurial self-confidence.

     

  16. She achieve her purpose in this article because the reader will know about the experiences of today's entrepreneurial women.

     

  17. From my own perspective, I found that the writer's purpose is to used the comparison between female and male entrepreneurs in order to evaluate the situation and demonstrate the recent stage of businesswomen.

     

  18. The article is well organized uses chronological order, thus supporting the main idea by using the subdivision headings.

     

  19. The reader will gaining the information about what, when, how and why women increase and develop themselves to be the successful business, owner.
 

20.     If someone wants to use the information from this article, he/she can be satisfy that it is trustworthy.

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