Accuplacer Sentence Skills Practice Test questions with correct answers

He had just come to the bridge; and not looking where he was going; he tripped over something. A: where he was going; he tripped B: where he was going: he tripped C: where he was going. He tripped D: where he was going, he tripped CORRECT ANSWER D. Only a comma is needed to separate the dependent clause. 'That doesn't make sense at all', he said. A: at all', he B: at all,' he C: at all, he D: at all, he' CORRECT ANSWER B. The comma should come inside the end quotation mark. It went on raining, and every day it got a little higher. A: on raining, and every day B: on raining: and every day C: raining on, and every day D: on raining, every day CORRECT ANSWER A. The original sentence is correct. Suddenly she, laughed as she remembered a story she had been told. A: she, laughed as she B: laughed as she C: she laughed; as she D: she laughed as she CORRECT ANSWER D. No punctua