Editing Proficiency Index
Improve the Style/Correctness of Each Sentence By Deleting One Word
1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was by general consensus agreement, one of the better presidents that the United States ever had.
2. The United Nations is faced with several supreme challenges.
3. The narrator of many short stories is more often the person who wrote the story.
4. A century or more after his death, Gauguin’s paintings, which would not have fetched five dollars during his own lifetime, were scooped up at art auction for massive amounts of money.
5. Many high school football star players recruited by college coaches expect that they will, in fact, receive an education when they accept a football scholarship.
6. By the middle years of the twenty-first century, computer scientists will surely have developed machines that work without breaking down.
7. Studies reveal that the earth possesses a vast array of sedimentary rocks, some with embedded fossils, proving the very existence of ancient organisms.
8. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote famously from Birmingham jail, advocating neither the evasion of the law or the defying of the law.
9. Adam Smith, the world’s first real economist, asserted that a nation achieves the better economic results when individuals work both for their own interest and for the interest of the nation.
10. Niccolo Machiavelli stated that rulers cannot and should not keep their word when such integrity would be to their continuing disadvantage and when the reasons for the promise no longer exist.
If you answer all ten questions correctly, you certainly do not need to do the grammar sections of the TOEFL.
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