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Re: section 5
Lacking information about energy use, people tend to overestimate the amount of energy used by equipment, such as lights, that are visible and must be turned on and off and underestimate that used by unobtrusive equipment, such as water heaters. (A) equipment, such as lights, that are visible and m...
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:53 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: section 5
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section 5
However much United States voters may agree that there is waste in government and that the government as a whole spends beyond its means, it is difficult to find broad support for a movement toward a minimal state. (A) However much United States voters may agree that (B) Despite the agreement among ...
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:08 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: section 5
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1556
section 5
Lacking information about energy use, people tend to overestimate the amount of energy used by equipment, such as lights, that are visible and must be turned on and off and underestimate that used by unobtrusive equipment, such as water heaters. (A) equipment, such as lights, that are visible and mu...
- by nationalfuel
Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:04 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: section 5
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2602
942
942.With only 5 percent of the world’s population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its nonrenewable resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use 21 times more water per capita than Europeans do. (A) With (B) As (C) Being (D) Despite having (E) Although accounting for...
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Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:57 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 942
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4648
936
936.Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide bans prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings. (A) prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings (B) prohibiting that landfills accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings (C)...
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Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:55 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 936
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1952
Re: 918
918. What brought the automobile company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special, governmentally sanctioned price increase allowed during a period of wage and price controls. (A) What brought (B) The thing that brought (C) That which brought (D) Bringing (...
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Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:45 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 918
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4587
918
918. What brought the automobile company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special, governmentally sanctioned price increase allowed during a period of wage and price controls. (A) What brought (B) The thing that brought (C) That which brought (D) Bringing (E...
- by nationalfuel
Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:15 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 918
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4587
Re: 820
820.The rise in the Commerce Department’s index of leading economic indicators suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that the mixed performance of the index’s individual components indicates that economic growth will proceed at a more moderate pace than ...
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Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:37 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 820
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2433
809
809. The proposed urban development zones do not represent a new principle; it was employed in “Operation Bootstrap” in Puerto Rico. (A) do not represent a new principle; it (B) represent not a new principle, but one that (C) are not a new principle; the same one (D) are not a new principle, but one...
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Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:25 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 809
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1865
820
820.The rise in the Commerce Department’s index of leading economic indicators suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that the mixed performance of the index’s individual components indicates that economic growth will proceed at a more moderate pace than i...
- by nationalfuel
Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:23 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 820
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2433
664
664. Some psychiatric studies indicate that among distinguished artists the rates of manic depression and major depression are ten to thirteen times as prevalent as in the population at large. (A) the rates of manic depression and major depression are ten to thirteen times as prevalent as in (B) the...
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Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:38 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 664
- Replies: 3
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677
677. Sunspots, vortices of gas associated with strong electromagnetic activity, are visible as dark spots on the surface of the Sun but have never been sighted on the Sun’s poles or equator. (A) are visible as dark spots on the surface of the Sun but have never been sighted on (B) are visible as dar...
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Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:34 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 677
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4158
sc 595
595.Rather than continue to produce most of the items necessary for subsistence, a growing number of farm families during the first decades of the nineteenth century began to specialize in the production of grain or cotton and to use the cash proceeds from selling their crops for buying necessities....
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:26 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: sc 595
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3380
489
489. Like the one reputed to live in Loch Ness, also an inland lake connected to the ocean by a river, inhabitants of the area around Lake Champlain claim sightings of a long and narrow “sea monster.” (A) Like the one reputed to live in Loch Ness, also an inland lake connected to the ocean by a rive...
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:44 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 489
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5536
Re: test 3
1.Which of the following is the most logical completion of the passage below? Many companies have been pushing for a three-week extension of daylight saving time, which would mean that the sun would continue to set an hour later during the fall months. The owners of a chain of convenience stores, f...
- by nationalfuel
Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:08 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: test 3
- Replies: 5
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