GRAMMAR AND WRITING: PARAGRAPH IMPROVEMENT

How would you change the underlined sentence marked ①?

• NO CHANGE

• Others, including poet T. S. Eliot, was deeply affected by these poems' capacity.

• Poet T. S. Eliot has been deeply affected by these poems' capacity.

• Others, including poet T. S. Eliot, have been deeply affected by these poems’ capacity.

Which of the following transitions would work best at the start of this sentence (②)?

• First

• For instance

• Therefore

• Yet

How would you change the underlined sentence marked ③?

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• This movement-which included John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert, among others-was not simply generating complex and irregular poems to confuse readers.

• This movement was not simply generating complex and irregular poems to confuse readers.

• This movement, among others, were not simply generating complex and irregular poems to confuse readers.

How would you change the underlined sentence marked ④?

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• "[T]heir amplifications had no limits, Samuel Johnson wrote."

• "[T]heir amplifications had no limits," wrote Samuel Johnson.

• [T]heir amplifications had no limits, wrote Samuel Johnson.

How would you change the underlined sentence marked ⑤?

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• Eliot believed these writers created clarity.

• He believed that these writers created a finely tuned poetry.

• Eliot believed that these writers created a finely tuned poetry; he saw in them great clarity.

Which of the following must the writer include while completing this essay?

• T.S. Eliot's best poem

• quotations from Donne, Marvell, and Herbert

• examples of Metaphysical conceits

• examples of sixteenth-century poetry