ALLIED ENG160 MODULE 4 CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

Points

1. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: Mexican and American food share some similarities because of the ingredients that are used amongst the two cultures.

a. cultures

b. ingredients

c. cultures, food

d. None of the choices apply

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2. __________ are brief, informative stories that can serve as examples and make an abstract idea more understandable.

a. Anecdotes

b. Arguments

c. Poems

d. Riddles

3. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: He is a crazy man with a gold-plated swiss army knife.

a. gold-plated

b. swiss

c. swiss army

d. None of the choices apply

4. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: Mr. Smith and his wife, patty, are an interesting couple that live down the street.

a. Mr. Smith, patty

b. street

c. patty

d. None of the choices apply

5. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: When uncle harvey got the bill from his doctor, he called the American Medical Association to complain.

a. doctor

b. uncle, harvey

c. complain

d. harvey

6. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: Technology is an interesting thing because of all of the advances that occur every year with every new product that is released to the market.

a. market

b. year

c. market

d. None of the choices apply

7. __________ is storytelling.

a. Argumentation

b. Exemplification

c. Description

d. Narration

8. The following question refers to APA Style: Use a __________ between a grammatically complete introductory clause and a final phrase or clause that illustrates or further explains the former thought, in ratios and proportions, and in references between place of publication and publisher.

a. period

b. comma

c. colon

d. dash

9. The following question refers to APA Style: Which of the following types of punctuation marks are used to end a complete sentence?

a. Periods

b. Commas

c. Colons

d. Dashes

10. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: Chinese food is great with tortillas and a scoop of cabbage.

a. food

b. tortillas

c. cabbage

d. None of the choices apply

11. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: When i have a cold, I use vicks ointment and chew listerine lozenges.

a. I, vicks, listerine

b. vicks, listerine

c. lozenges

d. Listerine, lozenges

12. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: Since no man volunteered for the job, the boy scouts in springfield, illinois, have a woman troop leader.

a. boy, springfield

b. scouts, boy, springfield, illinois

c. springfield, illinois

d. illinois

13. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: Dr. Freeling of the business department is offering a new course called introduction to web design.

a. introduction, business

b. business

c. web, design, introduction

d. design

\14. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: On their job site in korea, the french, swiss, and Chinese coworkers used English to communicate.

a. korea, french, swiss

b. french

c. swiss, french

d. coworkers

15. Which of the following is not a rule for using dialogue?

a. Place quotation marks around the words, and start a new paragraph when a new character begins speaking

b. Set off tag lines from quotations with commas

c. Record people's words exactly as they speak them

d. Make sure your reader does not know who is speaking at any given time

16. Dialogue can be used for all of the following, except:

a. to move the plot or action of the story along.

b. to tell what happened before the story began.

c. to act as examples that support your point of view.

d. to reveal other important facts that will make the story clearer, more suspenseful, or more meaningful.

17. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: A new restaurant featuring vietnamese cuisine has just opened on the south side of the city.

a. restaurant

b. vietnamese

c. south

d. cuisine

18. The following question refers to APA Style: A __________ is used to indicate a sudden interruption in the continuity of a sentence.

a. period

b. comma

c. colon

d. dash

19. The following question refers to APA Style: Commas are used in all of the following ways, except:

a. between elements in a series of three or more items (including before and and or).

b. to set off a nonessential or nonrestrictive clause.

c. to separate two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.

d. to introduce a word or phrase used as an ironic comment, slang, or coined expression.

20. Identify the words that require capitalization in the following sentence: During world war II, many americans were afraid that the japanese would invade California.

a. world, war, americans

b. war

c. americans, japanese

d. japanese, americans, world, war