Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

The plural forms of hypothesis, thesis, and crisis are respectively hypotheses, theses, and crises.

Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

Mathematics, athletics, and politics are singular nouns.

Judge the following items.

In terms of sentence structure, “I came, I saw, I conquered” is an example of a simple sentence with asyndetic coordination.

Judge the following items.

In “Fred built the cabin with his own hands”, the underlined fragment is an adjunct.

Judge the following items.

A disjunct is found in “Donna won’t cooperate, which makes things more difficult”.

Judge the following items.

In “The strong belief that he was unbeatable was Hugh’s first defeat”, the underlined passage has an appositive function.

Judge the following items.

“Playing video games and to watch sitcoms on cable TV are my favorite pastimes” is an example of coordinated structures with appropriate parallelism.

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

In “Medication is ineffective for some types of headaches; however, patients can learn how to deal with them”, the underlined connecting word is a conjunctive adverb linking two independent clauses.

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

“Mark’s friends don’t like Japanese food, and Mark doesn’t either” would still be correct if rewritten as Mark’s friends don’t like Japanese food, and so does he.

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

There is no change in meaning in “Luke, you had better listen to me, or be ready to bear the consequences” if the linking word is replaced by besides.