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What are the correct answers? Please explain why. Business Grammar?

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4. Which sentence is entirely correct?

A) As the cost of insurance policies rises, companies have cut back on executive perks and luxuries, including family leaves of absence and funds to earn PhDs.

B) The doctors discovered that the bacterias had weakened the patient's kidneys and other vital organs.

C) Tallying the yeses and no's for the proposed smoking ban in the college dormitories revealed strong support for the ban.

D) The newsletter appeared to have been written by a couple of knows-it-all who failed to notice a pair of empty parenthesis in the title.

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Which sentence is entirely correct?

A) All recently hired RNs and MDs at both Providian and Humana were encouraged by the boards of directors to improve patient education efforts.

B) We listened to the high voices of the sopranoes as they contrasted with the earthy tones of the contraltoes in the opera's opening scene.

C) Most husbands list their wifes and children as beneficiaries on their life insurance policies.

D) The basises of choosing a college should include comparing their curricula, assessing their costs, and checking the five-year earnings of recent alumnuses.

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23. The navigator directed the pilot to turn the ship 12 ________ north.

A) degs. (for degrees)

B) deg. (for degrees)

C) deges. (for degrees)

D) deg's. (for degrees)

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capwest5a
capwest5a

4. A is correct.

B is incorrect - the plural of bacterium is bacteria, not bacterias.

C is incorrect - 'no's' is an incorrect usage of the apostrophe

D is incorrect - 'knows-it-all' should be 'know-it-alls', also 'parenthesis' should be 'parentheses'

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A is correct

B is incorrect - the plural of 'soprano' is 'sopranos', not 'sopranoes'

C is incorrect - 'wifes' should be 'wives'

D is incorrect - it should be 'alumni' not 'alumneses', and I'm pretty sure that 'basises' is incorrect too (the plural of 'basis' is 'bases')

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23) I'm a little unsure on this one - I think it's B, but it could be A.

C is incorrect - 'deges' is not a valid abbreviation for 'degrees'

D is incorrect - misuse of the apostrophe

MLS
MLS

A, A, and B

All the other sentences have spelling mistakes in them, and deg. for degrees is correct according to an online dictionary (the computer won't let me paste the link to it).


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