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CLEP COLLEGE COMPOSITION MODULAR
EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|
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What are Pronouns?
Answer: Pronouns Agree with the noun they represent
(antecedent) in gender and number
What is the Nominative Case?
Answer: Nominative Case Type of Pronouns (I, you, she, he we,
you, they)
What is the Objective Case?
Answer: Objective Case Type of Pronouns (me, you, her, him,
us, them)
What is the Possessive Case?
Answer: Possessive Case Type of Pronouns (my, mine, your,
yours, his, her, its, our, ours, their, theirs)
What are Compound Personal Pronouns?
Answer: Compound personal pronouns Type of Pronouns
(myself, yourself, etc)
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What are Relative Pronouns?
Answer: Relative Pronouns Type of Pronouns (who, that, which,
what) "Pay special attention to who, which changes its form to indicate case (who, whose, whom)
What are Interrogative Pronouns?
Answer: Interrogative Pronouns Type of Pronouns (who, which,
what)
What are Indefinite Pronouns?
Answer: Indefinite Prounouns Type of Pronouns (all, any, both,
each, either, everybody, none, one several, some, someone)
What is Subordination?
Answer: Subordination How you make one idea subordinate to
another idea
What is a Modifier?
Answer: Modifier A descriptive phrase or word
What is Coordination?
Answer: Coordination How you connect ideas together
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What is an Idiom?
Answer: Idiom A phrase without a literal meaning
What is an Adjective?
Answer: Adjective Modifies a noun
What are Diction Errors?
Answer: Diction Errors Incorrect word choices
What are Idiom Errors?
Answer: Idiom Errors Expressions that are not always clear
from the meaning of the words (Kick the Bucket)
What are Past and Present Participles?
Answer: Past/present participle I have played/I am playing
What is an Illustration in writing?
Answer: Illustration Evidence, data, facts, quotes, etc "support
your topic"
What is Analysis in writing?
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Answer: Analysis Explain, interpret, and contextualize the
illustrations that have been made
What is Restatement or Restriction in writing?
Answer: Restatement or Restriction makes the subject more
specific. Usually follows the thesis sentence.
When should you use "Affect"?
Answer: Affect When you're talking about the act of changing --
the verb -- you'll use "affect." To influence, to change
When should you use "Effect"?
Answer: Effect When you're talking about the change itself --
the noun -- you'll use "effect." To accomplish (verb) a result (noun)
Which is spelled correctly: "Alright" or "All right"?
Answer: All right Alright vs all right? which is spelled correctly
What does "Disinterested" mean?
Answer: Disinterested Impartial
What does "Uninterested" mean?