Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) · English (Grades 11 and 12)
Language Conventions and Writing
39 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.
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- Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
- Which sentence has correct subject-verb agreement?
- Which sentence uses 'its' correctly?
- Which revision fixes the faulty parallelism in 'She likes hiking, to swim, and biking'?
- Which sentence corrects the dangling modifier in 'Walking to school, the rain started'?
- Which is the strongest thesis statement for an essay on school uniforms?
- Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly?
- Which phrase correctly shows the possessive for lockers belonging to several students?
- Which word best completes: 'The study was thorough; ___, its sample was small'?
- Which is the best active-voice revision of 'The experiment was completed by the students'?
- A writer wants to avoid plagiarism when using a statistic from a report. What should the writer do?
- Which sentence is a fragment?
- What is the main job of a topic sentence in a paragraph?
- Which sentence contains a misplaced modifier?
- Which sentence uses a colon correctly?
- Which word completes the sentence correctly: 'The new schedule will ___ attendance'?
- Which version of 'Due to the fact that it was raining, the game was cancelled' is the most concise?
- In an argumentative essay, why does a writer address a counterargument?
- Which sentence correctly sets off a non-essential clause with commas?
- Which revision fixes both the shift in tense and the lack of parallelism in 'He opened the door, walks in, and was greeting everyone'?
- Which sentence is correct in both subject-verb agreement and its use of a correlative conjunction?
- Which revision combines 'The lab ended early. The equipment had failed.' into one correct sentence?
- Which word is spelled correctly?
- Which is a sentence fragment?
- Which of these is plagiarism?
- Which sentence is in the passive voice?
- What is a thesis statement?
- Which sentence uses 'who' or 'whom' correctly?
- Which pair of appeals comes from Aristotle's rhetoric: logos and what?
- A speaker attacks an opponent's character instead of answering their argument. Which fallacy is this?
- Which sentence is a comma splice?
- Which sentence uses 'fewer' or 'less' correctly?
- What is the purpose of a topic sentence?
- Which sentence is correct?
- An ad says 'Everyone is buying this phone, so you should too.' Which fallacy is this?
- Which sentence uses 'affect' and 'effect' correctly?
- Which sentence has parallel structure?
- Which in-text citation follows MLA style?
- Which sentence contains a dangling modifier?
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