CLEP College Composition QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

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Ambiguity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A possible double meaning
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that may confuse a listener or reader
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Colloquial - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Used in some dictionaries to
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label words appropriate only in informal speech
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Consistency - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The result of staying within |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


one pattern and avoiding confusing shifts in tense or
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grammatical perspective |\




Convention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the customary way of doing |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


things; what a reader or listener expects or is used to
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Economy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The sparing use of words,
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avoiding unnecessary wordiness or duplication
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Formal - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the kind of English appropriate
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in serious discussion and writing
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Grammar - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the study of the forms of
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words and their arrangement in a language
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, Informal - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the kind of Standard English
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we use in casual conversations and personal letters
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Non-standard - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the everyday language of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


those with little formal education; inappropriate in school,
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business, or writing |\ |\




Redundancy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔unintentional repetition,
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needless duplication |\




Slang - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔extremely informal language;
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often used in a disrespectful manner
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Standard - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the language of our
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institutions- of school, church, business, and government
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Word - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔parts of speech
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Phrase - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔group of related words acting
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together as one part of speech; not containing both a subject and
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verb
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Clause - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔group of related words
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containing a subject and a verb |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Sentence - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔group of words containing a
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subject and a verb and expressing a complete thought
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