ATI TEAS 6 ENGLISH

English Portion: 1. Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly? 1. A carpenter must use certain tools, hammers, saws, chisels, to finish a job. 2. A carpenter must use certain tools hammers, saws, chisels- to finish a job. 3. A carpenter must use certain tools- hammers, saws, chisels to finish a job. 4. A carpenter must use certain tools- hammers, saws, chisels- to finish a job. 2. The top-secret blueprints were from an intergalactic spaceship. Which of the following is the meaning of the prefix “inter-“ as used in the sentence above? 1. Below 2. Among 3. Past 4. Into 3. The job application were shown to a anteroom, where they waited to be called for their interviews Which of the following is the meaning of the prefix “ante-“ as used in the sentence above? 1. Before 2. Against 3. After 4. Beyond 4. 1. It has never been more true to say that a dog is a man's best friend. 2. In response, the dog bit the intruder who was attacking his owner. 3. Last Tuesday night, a dog and his owner were asleep in their home. 4. An intruder broke into the house in the early hours of the morning. Using the sentence above, which of the following sentence orders best forms an organized, logical paragraph? 1. 1, 2, 4, 3 2. 3, 4, 2, 1 3. 1, 3, 2, 4 4. 3,1, 2, 4 5. Because of all your running around, their clients are confused about whose in charge, and the company is losing its competitive edge. Which of the following contractions should be used to correct the error in the sentence above? 1. you’re 2. they’re 3. who’s 4. it’s 6. Which of the following words is spell correctly? 1. Vien 2. Hieght 3. Receive 4. Foriegn 7. In the race for student body government, both students were coequal. Their speeches each pointed to their records to service and academic excellence. Which of the following options is the meaning of “coequal” as used in the sentence above? 1. The students gave speeches that were the same length 2. The students shared the same opinion on the issues. 3. The students were running for the same office. 4. The students had similar accomplishments. 8. I had to wrack my brain and plum the depth of my resources to overcome the foul consequences of my previous vice. Which of the following homophones should be used to correct the sentence above? 1. Rack 2. Plumb 3. Fowl 4. Vise 9. Which of the following sentences would most likely be found in an email from professor to her biology students at a college? 1. Traffic on Highway 32 will be rerouted to Main Street during renovation of the 7th Street Bridge. 2. Research groups from the 10:30 a.m. Tuesday class should meet in the library this week. 3. We want to go out for dinner, but we haven’t decided where to eat yet. 4. I didn’t get any constructive feedback on my paper during the peer review last week. 10. The gist of the saying went something like this: If a person want to get ahead in life, you have to be willing to work for it. Which of the following language conventions is violated in the sentence above? 1. Use of a colon 2. Verb tens