Our flight was delayed, but we finally _______ shortly after midnight. 

The number of teaching assistants required meeting undergraduate course needs is rapidly increasing.

____ books are ones in which the story is told or illustrated with pictures.

My husband composes not only the music, but also sings the songs for the major Broadway musicals.

The pioneers raised com as their chief crop because they kept well in any season and could be used in many ways.

 _    great was the destruction that the south took decades to recover.

I would be happy to see him, but I didn’t have time because of the coming examinations.

Identify the error in each sentence: 

The (A) novelist Shirley Hazzard is noted for (B) the insight, poetic style, and sensitive (C) she demonstrates (D) in her works.

The discover of gold and silver in the rugged mountains of Nevada in 1858 attracted many fortune-seekers to that area.

What we know about certain diseases are still not sufficient to prevent them from spreading easily among the population.

Identify the error in each sentence: (A) Despite his broken legs, he managed to (C) get out of the car before (D) exploding

Identify the error in each sentence: 

According to geological discoveries. 4.6-billion-vears life span of our planet is divided into four time intervals called eras.

She promise that she would come, but in fact she doesn’t.

Just keep ........ on the baby while I cook the supper, will you?

She wouldn’t buy any new clothes until hers_______ 

Someone who has ever tried to pick up spilled Mercury will disagree that this element is hard to handle.

He picked ________ the book and turned page after page.

Choose the best answer:

Would you like me ............. down the radio a bit?

In spite of her physician handicaps, Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe with honors.

Rainwater taking unused chemicals from fields into streams or lakes, where various compounds promote the rate growing of weeds.

The latest ratings have aroused claims that reality television shows are on their last ............