GED Language Arts - Writing (Essay Writing Exam) Sample Questions:

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Sentence To us, the problem of discovering materials missing or misfiled is a constant problem when seeking information for reports.

A) and discovering reports with problems
B) to us and the problem
C) we constantly discover missing or misfiled
D) we misfiled a constant problem
E) misfiled, missing, and us

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Comics:A Window on Life
(A)

A) replace would with wood
B) replace agree with agreed
C) When I was a child.B.A clergyman said that he read the comic strips in the daily paper every day.C.This amazed me because I believed that comics was for the young.D.I thought adults considered comics juvenile.E."But no,"he said."Comic strips can give you an insight into the human condition the way people think and behave." (6) Today, most would agree that he will be right.(7) The wide range of topics treated in the daily comic strips doesn't miss much about how people live their lives.
(B)
(8)
A popular comic strip subject is family life.(9) Strips on the family range from stay-athome parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there.(10) Some strips deal with sibling relationships.(11) Others explore adolescence and the stresses of children becoming more independent.(12) The humorous look at the role of husbands and wives in the family also makes for interesting reading.
(C)
(13)
Pets have been playing an important role in comic strips.(14) Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip.(15) Who can resist a cynical self-centered cat or a lolloping, brainless dog, especially if it gets the better of the humans?
(D)
(16)
Comic strips allow people to laugh at themselves and their very human failings.(17) A
little light is brought into our lives by them for a brief moment each day.(18) They are also a barometer of popular culture, telling what the social trends are and how some people regard them.(19) If the comic strips suddenly disappeared from the newspapers, society would lose a valuable piece of its culture. -- Exhibit -Which correction should be made to sentence 6?
D) change will be to was
E) replace right with write
F) no correction is necessary

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Sentence 6:In addition, I have took a number of manufacturing-related courses, including collective bargaining, labor problems, and research methods.
Which correction should be made to sentence 6?

A) insert a comma after including
B) change took to had took
C) change took to taken
D) replace In addition with Also in addition
E) no correction is necessary

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Sentence 7:Many times when I sign in after hours, fails he does to give me a pass slip that
I need to use when I leave the building.
Which correction should be made to sentence 7?

A) remove when
B) replace slip, that I with slip.I
C) change use when to use.When
D) change hours, fails to hours.Fails
E) replace fails he does with he fails

5. Sentence 8:The gas around the battery could be caused to explode by a spark, and someone could get injured.
The most effective revision of sentence 8 would begin with which group of words?

A) Ignited by a spark, someone
B) A spark could cause the gas
C) An explosion, the battery, and a spark
D) Injured by a spark, the battery
E) The injury from gas around the battery caused by someone

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