Chapter 1 Exercise: Learning Sentence Skills

This True/False quiz helps you learn about sentence skills.

1 Only English majors really need to learn sentence skills. 2 Sentence skills involve all the rules that make up standard English. 3 Missing or misplaced commas are examples of sentence-skills mistakes. 4 Good sentence skills are important in college, no matter what your major. 5 Good sentence skills are unimportant in the vast majority of careers. 6 Good sentence skills help you in your everyday life. 7 This sentence contains a sentence skills mistake: "I are not going to your party, no matter what. 8 This sentence contains a sentence skills mistake: "Jumping from branch to branch, the specators enjoyed the antics of the squirrels." 9 This sentence contains a sentence skills mistake: "It is I." 10 This sentence contains a sentence skills mistake: "This quiz is finished."