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Which sentence correctly uses 'take on'?
A. The company plans take twenty employees on to.
B. The company takes employees at on.
C. The company plans to take on twenty new employees.
D. The company plans on take employees.
Correct Answer: C
'Take on' can mean employ people or accept responsibility/work.
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Which sentence correctly uses 'stand out'?
A. Her research stood because out originality.
B. Her research stood out because of its originality.
C. Her research stand outed originality.
D. Her research stood originality out of.
Correct Answer: B
'Stand out' means be noticeably different or impressive.
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Which sentence correctly uses 'see through' in the sense of detecting deception?
A. She saw through his excuse immediately.
B. She saw through the window his excuse.
C. She saw his excuse through a tunnel.
D. She saw through immediately to his excuse.
Correct Answer: A
'See through' can mean recognize the true nature of a deception or false claim.
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Which sentence correctly uses 'put forward'?
A. The committee put several recommendations forward to backwards.
B. The committee put forward of recommendations.
C. The committee forward put recommendations.
D. The committee put forward several practical recommendations.
Correct Answer: D
'Put forward' means propose or present for consideration.
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Which sentence correctly uses 'get away with'?
A. He got away the rules with breaking.
B. He got with away the rules.
C. He thought he could get away with breaking the rules.
D. He get away breaking with rules.
Correct Answer: C
'Get away with' means escape punishment for wrongdoing.
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Which sentence correctly uses 'fall through'?
A. The agreement fell through the floor literally.
B. The agreement fell through at the last minute.
C. The agreement fell at through minute.
D. The agreement was fall through.
Correct Answer: B
'Fall through' means fail to happen or be completed.
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Which sentence correctly uses 'look down on'?
A. No one should look down on people because of their occupation.
B. No one should look people down on because occupation.
C. No one should look on down people.
D. No one should look down people.
Correct Answer: A
'Look down on' means regard as inferior.
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Which sentence correctly uses 'live up to'?
A. The new employee lived our expectations up to.
B. The employee lived to up expectations.
C. The employee lived up expectations.
D. The new employee lived up to our expectations.
Correct Answer: D
'Live up to' means meet an expected standard.
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Which sentence correctly uses 'brush up on'?
A. I need to brush my grammar up on the desk.
B. I need brush up my grammar on.
C. I need to brush up on my grammar before the test.
D. I brush on up grammar.
Correct Answer: C
'Brush up on' means improve or refresh one's knowledge of something.
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Which sentence correctly uses 'call for'?
A. The situation calls immediate action for.
B. The situation calls for immediate action.
C. The situation calls at immediate action.
D. The situation calls from action.
Correct Answer: B
'Call for' means require or demand.
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Which sentence contains a passive participial phrase?
A. Designed for harsh conditions, the equipment performed well.
B. Designing for harsh conditions, the equipment performed well by itself.
C. To design for harsh conditions, equipment performed.
D. The equipment has design for conditions.
Correct Answer: A
'Designed for harsh conditions' is a past-participial phrase with passive meaning.
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Which sentence contains a perfect participial phrase?
A. Completing the inspection, the report was submitted.
B. To have completed the inspection, the team submitted.
C. The team has completing the inspection.
D. Having completed the inspection, the team submitted its report.
Correct Answer: D
'Having completed' is a perfect participle indicating an earlier completed action.
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Choose the sentence with a passive infinitive phrase.
A. The documents expect to sign today.
B. The documents are expected to signing today.
C. The documents are expected to be signed today.
D. The documents expected being sign today.
Correct Answer: C
'To be signed' is a passive infinitive construction.
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Choose the sentence with a perfect infinitive phrase.
A. He seems forgetting the appointment.
B. He seems to have forgotten the appointment.
C. He has forgotten to the appointment.
D. He seems to forgetting the appointment.
Correct Answer: B
'To have forgotten' is a perfect infinitive: to + have + past participle.
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Which sentence contains a prepositional phrase modifying a verb?
A. The children waited outside the classroom.
B. The children outside the classroom were noisy.
C. The classroom near the stairs is locked.
D. The notice beside the door is new.
Correct Answer: A
'Outside the classroom' modifies 'waited' by indicating place.
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Which sentence contains a prepositional phrase modifying a noun?
A. They placed the notice on the wall.
B. We arrived after noon.
C. She spoke with confidence.
D. The notice on the wall contains the schedule.
Correct Answer: D
'On the wall' describes which notice and therefore functions adjectivally.
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Which sentence uses a gerund phrase as the object of a verb?
A. Holding the meeting is important.
B. They talked about holding the meeting.
C. They postponed holding the meeting until Friday.
D. Their plan is holding the meeting.
Correct Answer: C
'Holding the meeting' is the object/complement of the verb 'postponed'.
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Which sentence uses a gerund phrase as subject complement?
A. Solving crossword puzzles improves concentration.
B. Her favorite pastime is solving crossword puzzles.
C. She enjoys solving crossword puzzles.
D. She is interested in solving crossword puzzles.
Correct Answer: B
The gerund phrase follows the linking verb 'is' and identifies the subject 'pastime'.
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Which sentence uses an infinitive phrase as an adverb of purpose?
A. He called the office to confirm the appointment.
B. To confirm the appointment was necessary.
C. His aim was to confirm the appointment.
D. The appointment to confirm was important.
Correct Answer: A
The infinitive phrase tells why he called the office.
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Which sentence uses an infinitive phrase as an adjective?
A. To complete the forms requires time.
B. She went early to complete the forms.
C. Her goal is to complete the forms.
D. She has several forms to complete before noon.
Correct Answer: D
'To complete before noon' modifies the noun 'forms'.