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Grammar, Syntax and Sentence Structure
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- Complete the sentence: Seldom ______ such extraordinary architectural precision as that exhibited in the ancient sandstone facades of Petra.
- Complete the sentence: The higher education accreditation committee required that the university dean ______ all relevant faculty research publications by Monday.
- Choose the correct transition: The excavation in Gadara faced severe winter rainfall; ______, the archaeologists uncovered two pristine Roman mosaics.
- Complete the sentence: Had the hydrological engineers ______ the flash flood warning system earlier, the valley settlements would have avoided inundation.
- Select the correct pronoun: Neither the department head nor the research associates ______ willing to compromise on the experimental protocol.
- Complete the sentence: The university administration has decided ______ the deadline for graduate scholarship applications.
- Choose the sentence that contains an error in parallel structure:
- Complete the sentence: Only after the laboratory spectrometer ______ calibrated did the research team begin measuring the chemical samples.
- Complete the sentence: The director insisted on ______ every international grant proposal prior to institutional submission.
- Choose the sentence that correctly employs an elliptical comparative clause:
- Complete the sentence: No sooner ______ the conference hall than the keynote speaker began addressing the audience.
- Select the correct relative pronoun: The environmental engineer ______ project on wastewater recycling won the national innovation prize was interviewed on television.
- Complete the sentence: The statistical data collected during the 2024 agricultural census ______ that olive yields increased across the northern governorates.
- Choose the sentence that correctly avoids a dangling modifier:
- Complete the sentence: The research ethics board warned that under no circumstances ______ unauthorized patient data to be shared with commercial third parties.
- Complete the sentence: The Hashemite University engineering department has three 3D printers, all of ______ are utilized for prosthetic manufacturing research.
- Choose the sentence that correctly uses the subjunctive mood after an expression of necessity:
- Complete the sentence: Not only ______ the scholarship committee review academic transcripts, but they also evaluate community leadership and interview performance.
- Choose the sentence containing correct punctuation and semicolon usage:
- Complete the sentence: By the time the academic term concludes in June, the faculty ______ over four hundred research papers.
- Complete the sentence: The university president objected to ______ the academic colloquium without consulting the faculty senate.
- Select the correct passive construction: 'Researchers have demonstrated the efficacy of the new solar desalination membrane.'
- Choose the correct word order: 'Scarcely ______ when the electricity was restored.'
- Complete the sentence: The clinical psychologist observed that the patient appeared ______ after completing the cognitive behavioral exercises.
- Complete the sentence: The university senate debated ______ to establish an interdisciplinary bioethics research center.
- Choose the sentence containing correct use of the subjunctive following 'as if' to express counter-to-fact condition:
- Select the sentence in which the sequence of tenses is correct:
- Which sentence uses a mixed conditional correctly to link a past cause with a present result?
- Choose the sentence in which the relative clauses are worded and punctuated correctly:
- Which sentence keeps correct parallel structure in a correlative construction?
- Which sentence uses inversion correctly after a restrictive adverbial?
- The police ___ investigating the robbery.
- You ___ have told me earlier. I could have helped.
- They managed ___ the problem quickly.
- By the end of next month, the engineer ___ the lesson.
- I met the doctor ___ you recommended.
- The windows ___ already ___.
- The committee members ___ the report last week.
- Look! My brother ___ a second-hand bicycle right now.
- The reason ___ he left is unknown.
- He is married ___ a doctor.
- When I was a child, I ___ swim across the river.
- The train leaves ___ 6:30.
- It took me ___ hour to get there.
- Our teacher ___ the parcel two days ago.
- His ___ helped us finish on time. (assist)
- We congratulated her ___ her success.
- The plane flew ___ the desert.
- ___ I borrow your pen, please?
- By the time the inspector arrived, Mona ___ the report.
- They decided ___ a new office.
- If Layla ___ now, she will arrive on time.
- The committee members ___ the documentary recently.
- It was an ___ result for the whole team. (expect)
- He refused ___ the contract.
- The new library ___ at the moment.
- By the end of next month, my brother ___ the documentary.
- By the time the inspector arrived, the engineer ___ the report.
- The meeting was cancelled ___ the bad weather.
- Economics ___ one of the most popular university courses.
- My friend, together with her cousins, ___ coming to the party.
- Bread and butter ___ a common breakfast in many homes.
- We will meet ___ Friday.
- There has been a rapid ___ in prices. (increase)
- By the end of next month, Karim ___ the poem.
- Of the three roads, this one is ___.
- She enjoys ___ novels in her free time.
- She spoke ___ about her experience. (confident)
- This exercise is ___ than the last one.
- ___ moon goes round the Earth.
- He has lived here ___ ten years.
- The news from the capital ___ encouraging.
- Karim ___ the window two days ago.
- ___ she studied hard, she passed easily.
- Look! Our teacher ___ the report right now.
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