General AP Style Editing (US English) MCQs

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

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

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

4. Read sentence and identify verb or tense error

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

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

7. Identify the error contained in the following sentence.

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

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

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

11. Read sentence and identify the grammar or usage error

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25. 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.

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

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

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

29. Read sentence and identify the style error?

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

31. 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.

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

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

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

35. Choose adjectives that best completes the following sentence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

43. Read sentence and find error it contains.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

56. 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.

57. 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.

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

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

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

61. Identify the style error it contains

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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