| 1. | Henry liked red wine, fried fish, and drinking orange juice. |
| a. | | Henry liked to drink red wine, eat fried fish, and orange juice |
| b. | | Henry liked red wine, eating fried fish, and drinking orange juice |
| c. | | Henry liked red wine, fried fish, and orange juice |
| d. | | Henry liked to drink red wine, fried fish, and orange juice
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| 2. | Either you or your sister has broken my slate. |
| a. | | Either you or sister has broken my slate |
| b. | | You or your sister has broken my slate |
| c. | | You or sister has broken my slate |
| d. | | No Errors
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| 3. | He is both rich besides being well-educated |
| a. | | He is rich also well-educated |
| b. | | Though he is rich but he is well-educated |
| c. | | He is both rich and well-educated |
| d. | | No Error
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| 4. | He can neither read or write. |
| a. | | He cannot read nor write |
| b. | | He can neither read nor write |
| c. | | He neither read, write |
| d. | | No Error
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| 5. | The doctor will be available for consultation on Monday, Thursday or on Sunday. |
| a. | | The doctor will be available for consultation Monday, Thursday or on Sunday |
| b. | | The doctor will be available for consultation on Monday, Thursday or Sunday |
| c. | | The doctor will be available for consultation on Monday, on Thursday on Sunday |
| d. | | No Error
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| 6. | Sam likes to dance, smoke and read English novels. |
| a. | | Sam likes to dance, to smoke and read English novels |
| b. | | Sam likes dancing, smoking and read English novels |
| c. | | Sam likes to dance, smoking and read English novels |
| d. | | No Error
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| 7. | Call center executive was told to talk nicely, clearly, and in a detailed manner. |
| a. | | Call center executive was told to talk nicely, in a clear tone, and in a detailed manner |
| b. | | Call center executive was told to talk nicely, clearly, and thoroughly. |
| c. | | Call center executive was told, talk nicely, talk clearly, and talk in a detailed manner |
| d. | | No Error
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| 8. | Roger likes to eat fish burger and drinking cold coffee. |
| a. | | Roger likes fish burger and drinking cold coffee |
| b. | | Roger likes to eat fish burger and drinks cold coffee |
| c. | | Roger likes eating fish burger and drinking cold coffee |
| d. | | No Error
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| 9. | Sam spent his time learning web designing, working at the gas station, and jogging every morning. |
| a. | | Sam spent his time learning web designing, he worked at the gas station, and jogging every morning |
| b. | | Sam spent his time learning web designing, worked at the gas station, and jogged every morning |
| c. | | Sam spent his time to learn web designing, working at the gas station, and he jogged every morning. |
| d. | | No Error
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| 10. | Tom's room was filled with broken toys, old books, and the dustbin was overflowing. |
| a. | | Tom's room was filled with breaking toys, old bookings, and overflowing dustbin |
| b. | | Tom's room was filled with broken toys, old books, dustbin was overflowing |
| c. | | Tom's room was filled with broken toys, old books, and overflowing dustbin |
| d. | | No Error
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| 11. | Students at the theatre school learn acting, dancing, horse riding, and how to write dialogues. |
| a. | | Students at the theatre school learn how to act, dancing, horse riding, and how to write dialogues |
| b. | | Students at the theatre school learn acting, dancing, and how to ride a horse, and how to write dialogues |
| c. | | Students at the theatre school learn acting, dancing, horse riding, and writing dialogues. |
| d. | | No Error
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| 12. | Modern children watch TV for long hours, eat lots of junk food, and very talkative. |
| a. | | Modern children are always watching TV for long hours, eating lots of junk food, and are very talkative |
| b. | | Modern children watch TV for long hours, are always eating lots of junk food, and they talk too much |
| c. | | Modern children watch TV for long hours, eat lots of junk food, and are very talkative. |
| d. | | No Error
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| 13. | Debbie likes to paint, to dance, and reading literature books. |
| a. | | Debbie likes painting, to dance, and reading literature books |
| b. | | Debbie likes to paint, to dance, and to read literature books. |
| c. | | Debbie likes to paint, dancing, and reading literature books |
| d. | | No Error
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| 14. | The baseball academy needs coaches who are intelligent, dedicated, and self motivated. |
| a. | | The baseball academy needs coaches who are intelligent, dedicate themselves fully, and self motivated |
| b. | | The baseball academy needs coaches full intelligence, dedicated, and motivate themselves |
| c. | | The baseball academy needs coaches who are intelligent, who are dedicated, and motivate themselves |
| d. | | No Error
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| 15. | Harry likes to read, dance and go out for movies. |
| a. | | Harry likes to read and dance and go out for movies |
| b. | | Harry likes to read, to dance and go out for movies |
| c. | | Harry likes to read, dancing and go out for movies |
| d. | | No error
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| 16. | While people continue to seek freedom and opportunity in the United States, they clung with pride to the culture of their homelands. |
| a. | | they clinged with pride to |
| b. | | they clang with pride to |
| c. | | they cling with pride to |
| d. | | they were proud of
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What others think about GED Practice Test - Language Arts Writing - Parallel Structure |
| By: john on Nov 13, 2009 |
| | this is a great quiz, im planning on writing another question for it though |
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| By: Bob on Oct 5, 2009 |
| | You have an error in your correct answer for #12 (children and too much TV). In order to have parallelism, the sentence would have to have the three items all using action verbs, and you don't. You have two action verbs (watch, eat), but you follow up with a linking verb---are. That's not parallel s |
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