GEB 3213 CHAPTER 7 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. General revision requires attention to all of the following main categories except _____.
a. content
b. technology
c. organization
d. style
e. readability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅b. technology
2. Which of the following about evaluating style is true?
a. Style addresses the central questions of who, what, where, when, why and how within the range and
parameters of the assignment.
b. Your document may use any of a wide variety of style principles, such as chronological, spatial, or
compare/contrast.
c. Style is created through content and organization and involves word choice and grammatical
structures.
d. Style refers to the reader's ability to comprehend the document.
e. Standard styles include an introduction, body, and conclusion. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅c. Style is
created through content and organization and involves word choice and grammatical structures.
3. What is the most embarrassing error in business writing?
a. Giving the wrong date
b. Matching the date with the wrong day of the week
c. Misspelling someone's name
d. Missing words
e. Missing punctuation at the end of the sentence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅c. Misspelling someone's
name
4. This is probably the most versatile of all punctuation marks; it means you as a writer can use your
judgment in many cases as to whether you need it or not.
a. Comma
, b. Apostrophe
c. Period
d. Hyphen
e. Colon - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. Comma
5. Which of the following about commas is false?
a. They are used to separate two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.
b. They are used to offset words that help create unity across a sentence.
c. They are often used to separate more than one adjective modifying a noun.
d. They are used to offset clauses that are essential to the sentence.
e. They are used in dialogue sequences. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅d. They are used to offset clauses that
are essential to the sentence.
6. What is the use of semicolons?
a. They can be used to separate two independent clauses.
b. They are used to offset clauses that are not essential to the sentence.
c. They are used to separate more than one adjective modifying a noun.
d. They replace letters omitted in a contraction.
e. They indicate relationships among groups of items in a series when the individual items are separated
by commas. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅e. They indicate relationships among groups of items in a series
when the individual items are separated by commas.
7. Verb tense:
a. is the form of verb without a reference to time.
b. in its standard form, includes the auxiliary word "to."
c. uses two negatives to communicate a single idea.
d. converts to another word when representing the past tense.
e. refers to the point in time where action occurs. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅e. refers to the point in time
where action occurs.
1. General revision requires attention to all of the following main categories except _____.
a. content
b. technology
c. organization
d. style
e. readability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅b. technology
2. Which of the following about evaluating style is true?
a. Style addresses the central questions of who, what, where, when, why and how within the range and
parameters of the assignment.
b. Your document may use any of a wide variety of style principles, such as chronological, spatial, or
compare/contrast.
c. Style is created through content and organization and involves word choice and grammatical
structures.
d. Style refers to the reader's ability to comprehend the document.
e. Standard styles include an introduction, body, and conclusion. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅c. Style is
created through content and organization and involves word choice and grammatical structures.
3. What is the most embarrassing error in business writing?
a. Giving the wrong date
b. Matching the date with the wrong day of the week
c. Misspelling someone's name
d. Missing words
e. Missing punctuation at the end of the sentence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅c. Misspelling someone's
name
4. This is probably the most versatile of all punctuation marks; it means you as a writer can use your
judgment in many cases as to whether you need it or not.
a. Comma
, b. Apostrophe
c. Period
d. Hyphen
e. Colon - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. Comma
5. Which of the following about commas is false?
a. They are used to separate two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.
b. They are used to offset words that help create unity across a sentence.
c. They are often used to separate more than one adjective modifying a noun.
d. They are used to offset clauses that are essential to the sentence.
e. They are used in dialogue sequences. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅d. They are used to offset clauses that
are essential to the sentence.
6. What is the use of semicolons?
a. They can be used to separate two independent clauses.
b. They are used to offset clauses that are not essential to the sentence.
c. They are used to separate more than one adjective modifying a noun.
d. They replace letters omitted in a contraction.
e. They indicate relationships among groups of items in a series when the individual items are separated
by commas. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅e. They indicate relationships among groups of items in a series
when the individual items are separated by commas.
7. Verb tense:
a. is the form of verb without a reference to time.
b. in its standard form, includes the auxiliary word "to."
c. uses two negatives to communicate a single idea.
d. converts to another word when representing the past tense.
e. refers to the point in time where action occurs. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅e. refers to the point in time
where action occurs.
