There are two parts to the writing diagnostic test. The directions for both parts are on this page.

Part I: In each of the following sentences find out what is wrong, if anything. In deciding where there is something wrong with a sentence, consider the way a sentence should be written in standard written English, the kind of English usually found in textbooks. Remember that this is sometimes different from the kind of English that you use in talking with your friends.

Some sentences are acceptable without change.
No sentence contains more than one error.

When you find an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed in order to make the sentence acceptable, and blacken the corresponding circle on the answer sheet. If there is no error, mark letter D.

 

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Part II: In each of the following sentences some part of the sentence is underlined and bolded. In the answer choices you will find four ways of writing the underlined part. The first choice repeats the underlined part in the original sentence, but the other three are different. If you think the original sentence is better than any of the suggested changes, you should choose letter A; otherwise you should mark one of the other choices. Choose the answer that produces the most effective sentence - clear and exact, without awkwardness or ambiguity. Do not make a choice that changes the meaning of the original sentence.

 

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