Quiz
Grammar
and Usage
1. The bidding war among/between two rival media
companies turned bitter.
2. The salesman claimed that his product was superior to the
conference host’s showing a lack of tack/tact.
3. If she were/was CEO, the firm would be solvent instead of on
the verge of bankruptcy.
4. Perennial worries about gerrymandering/jerrymandering
dogged the election.
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5. Since the attorney general was convicted the call for
impeachment was superfluous/supercilious.
6. Possessing 15 pounds of marijuana were/was grounds for
arrest before the new law took effect.
7. The spectators were rushed off/off of the bleachers before
they collapsed.
8. The attorney generals/attorneys general of 13 states sued
to block federal regulations.
9. Everybody knew who’s/whose dog mauled the child.
10. Rebekah was the oldest/older of the couple’s four children.
Answers: 1. between; 2. tact; 3. were; 4. gerrymandering; 5. superfluous; 6. was; 7. off;
8. attorneys general; 9. whose; 10. oldest
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