Questions 1-5
Read this complaint letter and answer the questions that follow.
Dear Mr. Nielsen:
(1) Me and my wife have been customers of the Swirl Corporation for the past 30 years. (2) We have purchased various household appliances such as dishwashers, ovens, washers, and dryers from the local Swirl outlet store since moving here in the early nineties. (3) We recently purchased a Swirl Eco Energy Star refrigerator from your store to replace our old non-Energy Star refrigerator. (4) The new refrigerator worked well for two months before the top freezer stopped cooling completely. (5) Are energy bills also seem too have increased by about $25 per month since we bought this new Energy Star model.
(6) Upon researching the problem, I found that there have been recalls of several products with 20 serial numbers.comparable to us. (7) I spoke to your salesman, Lucas Garcia, at the outlet store, but all he did was tell me to call your toll free number. (8) I called the toll free number and returning the refrigerator was something I was advised to do to your outlet store in order for it to be forwarded on to your distribution facility.
(9) It has been over three weeks since we returned the refrigerator to your. store, but, we still hadn't received.a status update. (10) Our energy bills have dropped back to their original level since we switched back to our old refrigerator. (11) Our goal was to reduce our energy bill, so we are still dissatisfied. (12) If you would like to retain us as customers, then please address these issues immediately.
Sincerely,
Horace Whittaker III

Q:1-Which version of Sentence (1) uses the correct pronouns?
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Me and my wife have been customers of the Swirl Corporation for the past 30 years.
My wife and I have been customers of the Swirl Corporation for the past 30 years.
My wife and me have been customers of the Swirl Corporation for the past 30 years.
Myself and my wife have been customers of the Swirl Corporation for the past 30 years.

Q:6-Which of the following provides the clearest, most concise version of the sentence?
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Being bothered by the washing machine's noise, Tara could not fall asleep the whole night.
Tara could not fall asleep the whole night due to the bothering washing machine and its noise.
Bothered by the washing machine's noise, Tara could not fall asleep the whole night.
Since she was bothered by the washing machine's noise, Tara could not fall asleep and it was the whole night.

Q:7-Read the paragraph.
In 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the existence of radium and polonium while researching a radioactive mineral known as pitchblende. On April 20, 1902, the Curies successfully isolated radioactive radium salts in their laboratory in Paris.
Which sentence best concludes this paragraph?
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Marie and Pierre married in 1895, marking the beginning of a scientific partnership that would achieve world renown.
Marie Curie was born Marie Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867.
One year after isolating radium, they would share the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with French scientist A. Henri Becquerel for their groundbreaking investigations of radioactivity.
The term radioactivity, which describes the phenomenon of radiation caused by atomic decay, was in fact coined by Marie Curie.

Q:8-Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?
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The soccer player ran quick to the goal.
The soccer player run quickly to the goal.
The soccer player did ran quickly to the goal.
The soccer player ran quickly to the goal.

Q:9-A student is working on a term paper about sloths for her science class, and takes some notes as she does her research. Which sentence from her notes contains facts that would be the most important to include in her paper?
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Everyone knows that sloths have a reputation for being slow and sleepy.
Recent studies show that sloths only sleep around 10 hours a day, rather than the previously assumed 15-20.
The word "sloth" means lazy, sluggish, and idle, and it is considered one of the "seven deadly sins."
Maybe sloths don't deserve their bad reputation.

Q:10-Which of the following sentences uses commas correctly?
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The penguin walked to one end of the enclosure, and dived into the pool.
The sign in the movie theater read, "Movie tickets are only $5 on Tuesdays."
I want to go hiking but she wants to go to a restaurant, and eat pizza.
Jessica my older sister, has a job at the local animal shelter.