Lesson Example Discussion Quiz: Class Homework |
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Title: Parenthetical Expressions & Nonrestrictive Clauses, Unnecessary Punctuation, Combining and separating sentences, Word pairs and Comparisions |
Grade: core-sat Lesson: S13-P1 |
Explanation: Hello Students, time to practice and review the answers. |
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Problem |
Choose the most appropriate common expressions for the underlined words. Nowadays, families do not mind sisters, daughter, and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like. |
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Clue |
These are the elements in a sentence that are unessential to the sentence’s core meaning. |
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Hint |
The word 'daughter' should be plural in the given sentence. |
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Sumup |
Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps? |
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Choice.A |
Nowadays, families do not mind sisters, daughter, and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like. The sentence you provided is incorrect due to a lack of parallel structure. The list of family members (sisters, daughter, and wives) is not consistent in terms of grammatical structure. |
No change |
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Choice.B |
Nowadays, families do not mind sisters-daughters and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like. The sentence you provided is incorrect due to the use of a hyphen between "sisters" and "daughters." Hyphens are generally used to join words or parts of words to form a compound term or to clarify meaning. |
sisters-daughters |
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Choice.C |
Nowadays, families do not mind sisters, daughters and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like. The sentence is grammatically sound, and it uses proper punctuation, including commas to separate the listed family members. The structure is clear, and the message is conveyed in a straightforward manner. |
sisters, daughters |
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Choice.D |
Nowadays, families do not mind sisters (daughter) and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like. The sentence you provided is incorrect due to the use of parentheses around "daughter." Parentheses are typically used for additional, optional, or explanatory information, and they don’t suit the structure of the sentence in this context. |
sisters (daughter) |
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Correct sentence |
Nowadays, families do not mind sisters, daughters, and wives seeking gainful employment as long as they don’t exercise their right to spend their earnings as they like. |
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Answer |
Option |
C |
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Sumup |
Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps? |
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