GED Language Arts - Writing (Essay Writing Exam) Sample Questions:

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Sentence 1Our regular delivery is quite effective and takes less than four hours.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose optionA.

A) quite, affective
B) quite, affective,
C) quite affective
D) quiet effective
E) quite effective

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Sentence 1Family and social obligations became burdensome.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose optionA.

A) had become
B) are becoming
C) became
D) become
E) will become

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The Internet
(A)

A) We use the Internet or hear about it almost daily.B.However, there was a time when the Internet was known to just a network of scientists who used it as a means to communicate research information.C.They lived all over the world, the idea of calling on the phone was a major problem and a major expense.D.Faxing was a problem also if they wanted to keep their ideas secret.E.This group of international scientists needed a means to share their information with each other.
(B)
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In 1989, computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee created a system that enabled an elite group of scientists to communicate with one another.(7) The original goal of the scientists is to share information that was number- and text-based.(8) This format was an easy procedure for the early computers and computer programs to use.
(C)
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Many other people were interested in this"new"exchange of information for a few reasons.(10) It was much cheaper than a long distance phone call or fax, and it provided
some privacy.(11) Soon, others were experimenting with this new communication device.(12) Eventually, a group of people at the Massachusetts Institute of technology developed the World Wide Web.
(D)
(13)
Changes that are made in computers and the way they communicate with each other
provide the opportunity for the Web to evolve.(14) This evolution continue to change the
way we all communicatewith each other, too.(15) To do more than just communicate today,
the Web is used.(16) Its a valuable marketing and selling tool for businesses.(17) How
interesting to think of the many new ways that this technology shaping our future.
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Sentence 16:Its a valuable marketing and selling tool for businesses.
Which correction should be made to sentence 16?
B) move valuable to follow tool
C) change businesses to business's
D) insert a comma after marketing
E) replace Its with It's
F) replace and with or

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Sentence 7:This unusual organization will be notified, along with my opinion of its tactics, when I return unpaid the invoice back.
Which is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If the original is the best way, choose optionA.

A) when returning unpaid the invoice back.
B) by my having returned the invoice that was unpaid.
C) when I return unpaid the invoice back.
D) when I return the unpaid invoice.
E) when unpaid I return the invoice.

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Sentence An "Invoice and Statement" was received telling me that I owe an operation called:Allstar Football Benefit
$29.65 in the mail last week.
The most effective revision of sentence 4 would begin with which group of words?

A) I owed by being told to me in an "Invoice and Statement"
B) $29.65 is owed by me
C) Telling me that I owe in the mail
D) In the mail last week, I received
E) Receiving an "Invoice and Statement," an operation

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