AP Style Editing (US English) MCQ Questions Answers

1. Which one does NOT require editing to correct errors in word choice, word usage or spelling?

2. Which sentences does NOT require editing to correct errors in word choice, word usage or spelling?

3. Which one does NOT require editing to correct grammar or usage errors?

4. Read lines that together form a passage and select the line that contains an error in verb tense consistency.

5. Which sentence does NOT require editing to correct errors in word choice, word usage or spelling?

6. Editing option that best corrects the underlined part of the following sentence.

7. Carefully read the following options that together form a passage and identify the option that contains an error in word choice or spelling.

8. Which one does NOT contain a grammar or usage error?

9. Read passage and select the option that illustrates the best course of action for an editor to take.

10. What would an editor need to take to correct the modifier/comparison error in the following passage?

11. Editing option that best corrects the underlined part of the following sentence.

12. Which one requires editing to correct an error in pronoun-antecedent agreement?

13. Which one does NOT require editing to correct voice, wordiness or redundancy?

14. Which requires editing to correct an error in subject-verb agreement?

15. Read passage and find the type of grammar or usage error it contains.

16. Identify the type of verb or tense error contained in the underlined portion.

17. Select the option that illustrates the best course of action for an editor to take.

18. Identify the style error it contains

19. Editing option that corrects the underlined part of the following sentence.

20. Option that illustrates the best course of action for an editor to take.

21. Which one requires editing to correct errors in punctuation?

22. One sentence requires editing to correct passive voice, wordiness or redundancy. Consider the underlined phrases, and then select the sentence that does NOT require editing.

23. Through the complete failure of all our .... events, we have learned that .... is extremely difficult. Perhaps we should consider hiring a professional ..... to help us.

24. Read passage and identify the punctuation error it contains.

25. Editing option to correct the underlined part of the following sentence.

26. .... agreed that .... of our precautions would be useless once the temperature dropped to ..... .

27. Read passage and select line that contains a grammar or usage error.

28. Read options and select the line that contains an error in grammar or usage.

29. Read sentence and identify the style error it contains.

30. If Sen. Hannibal .... control his anger just a touch more, he ..... find that people react to him more positively.

31. Which one contains an error in grammar or word usage?

32. Read passage and select best option for an editor to take.

33. Which one does NOT require correction of error in subject-verb agreement?

34. Read sentence and option that shows the part of the sentence that should be edited to eliminate redundancy.

35. Read passage and identify the style error it contains.

36. Read sentence and find error it contains.

37. Read sentence and identify grammar or usage error it contains.

38. Which sentences requires correction of an error in modifier usage?

39. Our voyage would have been a different and much duller experience .... for the family of dolphins that ...... the ship from Mallorca to Malta.

40. Read passage and select best option for an editor to take.

41. Read passage and select best option for an editor to take.

42. Read passage and find the punctuation error it contains.

43. Which sentence does NOT require correction of errors in word choice, word usage or spelling?

44. Choose adjectives that best completes the following sentence.

45. Read sentence and find option for an editor to take.

46. Which sentences does NOT require correcting grammar or usage errors?

47. Which one requires editing to correct grammar or usage errors?

48. The moment had arrived for the intern to begin his first solo operation and he couldn't barely contain his excitement. Having been anesthetized, the new surgeon made his first incision into the patient.

49. Which sentences contains an error in grammar or usage?

50. Read sentence and identify the style error?

51. Editing option that best corrects the underlined part of the following sentence.

52. Which sentence requires editing to correct errors in verb tense?

53. Read passage and select best option for an editor to take.

54. If any club member .... suggest that he was not against opening membership to women but only against allowing them early tee times, he .... shouted out of the room.

55. Which one does NOT require correction of errors in word choice, word usage or spelling?

56. Read sentence and choose option that shows the part of the sentence that should be edited to eliminate redundancy.

57. Read sentence and choose option that shows the part of the sentence that should be edited to eliminate redundancy.

58. Which one does NOT require editing to correct errors in punctuation?

59. Read passage and select best option for an editor to take.

60. Which sentences does NOT require correction of a modifier usage error?

61. Which sentences does NOT require correction of unnecessary use of passive voice?

62. Read passage and select best option for an editor to take.

63. Which one requires editing to correct grammar or usage errors?

64. Which one requires editing to correct an error in parallel structure?

65. Read passage and identify the line that contains an error in agreement or parallel structure:

66. A doctor at the Metropolitan Clinic in Chicago claims that if women ________ and ________, their children _________ less likely to develop lung diseases.

67. Read sentence and identify the style error it contains.

68. Read sentence and identify the grammar or usage error

69. Read passage and select best option for an editor to take.

70. The following sentence is devoid of punctuation. Which editing options turns it into a coherent, plausible sentence?

71. Editing option that corrects the underlined part of the following sentence.

72. Identify the error contained in the following sentence.

73. Read passage and select line that contains an error in verb tense consistency.

74. Which sentences does NOT require editing to correct a comparison error?

75. Read sentence and identify verb or tense error

76. Editing option to correct the underlined part of the following sentence.

77. Which one contains an error in grammar or usage?

78. Which sentences does NOT require correction of errors in word choice, word usage or spelling?