GEB Final Exam Review questions
and answers graded A+
What are the four C's? - correct answer ✔✔ Clarity
Cohesion
Continuity
Concision
What are some examples of Clarity? - correct answer ✔✔ Expletive Constructions
Nominalizations
Passive Voice
Vague Pronouns
Negative Constructions
Example of Expletive Construction: - correct answer ✔✔ Dummy Subjects, examples include:
there are, there is, these are used as placeholders
These are words that end in ion , and ent. This is a noun that is made of a verb - correct answer
✔✔ Nominalization
This sentence order organizes recipient, action and then actor. Instead of Actor, Action, and then
Recipient - correct answer ✔✔ Passive Voice
These are pronouns that act as placeholders. - correct answer ✔✔ Vague Pronouns
, Negations. So for example instead of saying 'we did not win' say we lost. - correct answer ✔✔
Negative Constructions
What is the structure for good cohesion in a written document? - correct answer ✔✔ Head
Body Foot Structure
Head Body Foot Structure: Start documents and paragraphs with summaries - correct answer
✔✔ Heads
Head Body Foot Structure: Elaborate on these summaries or support them with evidence -
correct answer ✔✔ Body
Head Body Foot Structure: Close lengthy document or paragraphs with conclusions - correct
answer ✔✔ Feet
What are three important parts to continuity? - correct answer ✔✔ Transitional words and
phrases
Sequencing
Common Subject
States logical relationships between sentences. So for example: if you use however it states
contradiction - correct answer ✔✔ Transitional words and phrases
This is where you take the last content of the last sentence and glue it to the beginning of the
second sentence - correct answer ✔✔ Sequencing
you can glue sentences together as long as they have a same subject - correct answer ✔✔
Common Subject
and answers graded A+
What are the four C's? - correct answer ✔✔ Clarity
Cohesion
Continuity
Concision
What are some examples of Clarity? - correct answer ✔✔ Expletive Constructions
Nominalizations
Passive Voice
Vague Pronouns
Negative Constructions
Example of Expletive Construction: - correct answer ✔✔ Dummy Subjects, examples include:
there are, there is, these are used as placeholders
These are words that end in ion , and ent. This is a noun that is made of a verb - correct answer
✔✔ Nominalization
This sentence order organizes recipient, action and then actor. Instead of Actor, Action, and then
Recipient - correct answer ✔✔ Passive Voice
These are pronouns that act as placeholders. - correct answer ✔✔ Vague Pronouns
, Negations. So for example instead of saying 'we did not win' say we lost. - correct answer ✔✔
Negative Constructions
What is the structure for good cohesion in a written document? - correct answer ✔✔ Head
Body Foot Structure
Head Body Foot Structure: Start documents and paragraphs with summaries - correct answer
✔✔ Heads
Head Body Foot Structure: Elaborate on these summaries or support them with evidence -
correct answer ✔✔ Body
Head Body Foot Structure: Close lengthy document or paragraphs with conclusions - correct
answer ✔✔ Feet
What are three important parts to continuity? - correct answer ✔✔ Transitional words and
phrases
Sequencing
Common Subject
States logical relationships between sentences. So for example: if you use however it states
contradiction - correct answer ✔✔ Transitional words and phrases
This is where you take the last content of the last sentence and glue it to the beginning of the
second sentence - correct answer ✔✔ Sequencing
you can glue sentences together as long as they have a same subject - correct answer ✔✔
Common Subject
