Vocabulary 4000 - Noel's ESL eBook Library

Idiom & Usage 121
Drill I
In each of the following sentences, part or all of the sentence is underlined. The
answer-choices offer five ways of phrasing the underlined part. If you think the
sentence as written is better than the alternatives, choose A, which merely
repeats the underlined part; otherwise choose one of the alternatives. Answers
begin on page 142.
1. Had the President’s Administration not lost the vote on the budget reduction
package, his first year in office would have been rated an A.
(A) Had the President’s Administration not lost the vote on the budget
reduction package, his first year in office would have been rated an A.
(B) If the Administration had not lost the vote on the budget reduction
package, his first year in office would have been rated an A.
(C) Had the President’s Administration not lost the vote on the budget
reduction package, it would have been rated an A.
(D) Had the President’s Administration not lost the vote on its budget
reduction package, his first year in office would have been rated an A.
(E) If the President had not lost the vote on the budget reduction package,
the Administration’s first year in office would have been rated an A.
2. The new law requires a manufacturer to immediately notify their customers
whenever the government is contemplating a forced recall of any of the
manufacturer’s products.
(A) to immediately notify their customers whenever the government is
contemplating a forced recall of any of the manufacturer’s products.
(B) to immediately notify customers whenever the government is
contemplating a forced recall of their products.
(C) to immediately, and without delay, notify its customers whenever the
government is contemplating a forced recall of any of the manufacture’s
products.
(D) to immediately notify whenever the government is contemplating a
forced recall of any of the manufacturer’s products that the customers
may have bought.
(E) to immediately notify its customers whenever the government is
contemplating a forced recall of any of the manufacturer’s products.
3. World War II taught the United States the folly of punishing a vanquished
aggressor; so after the war, they enacted the Marshall Plan to rebuild
Germany.
(A) after the war, they enacted the Marshall Plan to rebuild Germany.
(B) after the war, the Marshall Plan was enacted to rebuild Germany.
(C) after the war, the Marshall Plan was enacted by the United States to
rebuild Germany.
(D) after the war, the United States enacted the Marshall Plan to rebuild
Germany.
(E) after the war, the United States enacted the Marshall Plan in order to
rebuild Germany.