Jrs - Form Structure Sense

In recent years, economists around the world have created new tools that quantify the overall well-being of a country's citizens. Economists in India, for example, use an Ease of Living Index. This tool _____ economic potential, sustainability, and citizens’ quality of life.

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Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• measures

• had measured

• would have measured

• will have been measuring

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CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.5.1B

In a recent analysis of lyrical trends in 350,000 songs, researchers cite increases in certain measures, such as the ratio of choruses to verses, as evidence music lyrics are becoming more repetitive. For instance, from 1970 to 2020, _____ chorus-to-verse ratios trended similarly, with each genre’s data indicating that relative to the number of unique verses, the number of repeated choruses in songs increased.

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Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• rocks and raps

• rock’s and rap’s

• rocks and rap’s

• rock and rap’s

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Professional American football player Fred Cox invented one of the world’s most popular toys. In the 1970s, he came up with the idea for the Nerf football, which _____ of the harder and heavier regulation football.

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Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• were a smaller, foam version

• are smaller, foam versions

• were smaller, foam versions

• is a smaller, foam version

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CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, an appeal for freedom from the British monarchy that famously helped ignite the desire for independence among the American colonists. After the colonies achieved their independence, Paine moved to Paris, where the provocative _____ would contribute to another revolution—the French Revolution.

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Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• authors political writings

• author's political writings

• author's political writing's

• authors' political writings'

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

In the list “Adorable Things” from Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book, the author delights in baby sparrows, a face drawn on a melon, and a young courtier in ceremonial garb. So shrewd an observer is Shōnagon, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi, that her book’s musings on tenth-century Japanese courtly life ______ readers a thousand years later.

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Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• fascinate

• has fascinated

• fascinates

• is fascinating

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CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B