CLEP College Composition | Comprehensive Practice Test | Study Guide Newest Actual Questions & Answers (A+ Guide Solutions) 2025 | 2026.

CLEP College Composition | Comprehensive Practice Test | Study Guide Newest Actual Questions & Answers (A+ Guide Solutions) 2025 | 2026. Quiz_________________? Adjective and Adverb Rule #1 - Answer After linking verbs such as look, seem, appear, taste, smell, feel, sound, use adjectives to describe the subject Quiz_________________? Adjective and Adverb Rule #2 - Answer Really is an adverb; real is an adjective. Do not use real to modify another adjective Quiz_________________? Adjective and Adverb Rule #3 - Answer Adjectives do not modify verbs Quiz_________________? Adjective and Adverb Rule #4 - Answer Good is never an adverb Quiz_________________? Adjective and Adverb Rule #5 - Answer Since scarcely and hardly are negative already, they should not be accompanied by another negative Quiz_________________? Adjective and Adverb Rule #6 - Answer Irregardless is not a word. Use regardless Quiz_________________? Adjectives and Adverbs - Answer have three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative Quiz_________________? Ambiguity - Answer A possible double meaning that may confuse a listener or reader Quiz_________________? Causes of ambiguity: modifiers and comparisons - Answer 1) Misplaced modifier 2) Dangling modifier 3)Two-way modifiers 4) Incomplete comparisons Quiz_________________? Clause - Answer group of related words containing a subject and a verb Quiz_________________? Colloquial - Answer Used in some dictionaries to label words appropriate only in informal speech Quiz_________________? Comparison and Contrast - Answer Paragraphs may be developed by comparisons (which show similarities) or by contrasts (which show differences) or by a combination of the two. a special note is needed about the organization of the type of paragraph. It may be done point by point; that is by, making a statement about one thing and comparing or contrasting it immediately with another. Quiz_________________? Compound Subject/Compound Verb - Answer Two or more subjects or verbs connected by and or or Quiz_________________? Conjunction Rule #1 - Answer Use 'since' or 'because' instead of 'being' or 'being that' or 'seeing as how' to introduce a clause Quiz_________________? Conjunction Rule #2 - Answer use 'as', not 'like', as a connective between clauses Quiz_________________? Conjunction Rule #3 - Answer 'while' means "duration of time." It cannot be used in place of 'but', 'although', or 'and' Quiz_________________? Conjunction Rule #4 - Answer do not say "the reason is because." Use "the reason is." Quiz_________________? Conjunction Rule #5 - Answer do not say "the place is where." Use "the place is."