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1. Andy Warner is one of the coaches who __________ with the training program.

   1.   ?    help
   2.   ?    helps

2. No other criteria for the program ____________ been spelled out.

   1.   ?    has
   2.   ?    have

3. Neither Florida State nor Florida __________ included.

   1.   ?    is
   2.   ?    are

4. It's a state where __________ swim teams dominate.

   1.   ?    nationally renown
   2.   ?    nationally-renown
   3.   ?    nationally renowned
   4.   ?    nationally-renowned

5. He __________ a job as a one-man news crew for a Panama City TV station

   1.   ?    wangled
   2.   ?    wrangled

6. What a week. I feel as if I've really been through the __________ .

   1.   ?    ringer
   2.   ?    wringer
   3.   ?    wigwam

7. I can't wait until Saturday morning, when I can __________ in bed for hours.

   1.   ?    lay
   2.   ?    lie
   3.   ?    create festive party favors

8. Your pathetic insults have no __________ on her.

   1.   ?    affect
   2.   ?    effect
   3.   ?    Afflect

9. Hohmeister is the __________ .

   1.   ?    front runner
   2.   ?    front-runner
   3.   ?    frontrunner
   4.   ?    gunrunner

10. Don't you just love the phrase "wholly owned subsidiary"?

    1.   ?    Insert hyphen between "wholly" and "owned:"
       
       "wholly-owned subsidiary"?
       
    2.   ?    Move question mark inside quote marks:
       
       "wholly owned subsidiary?"
       
    3.   ?    Leave everything as is.

11. Lightsey, Meisburg and Maddox each _______ cited the requirement.

    1.   ?    has
    2.   ?    have

12. It will be rebuilt as a football-shaped __________ of two one-way roads.

    1.   ?    ellipse
    2.   ?    ellipsis

13. Identify the problem with this sentence:
    
    Set 10 years later than "Phantom Menace," Jedi-in-training Anakin Skywalker and his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, are called in to protect the young politician Padme.

    1.   ?    The opening, "Set 10 years later than 'Phantom Menace,' is a misplaced modifier.
    2.   ?    "10" should be "ten"
    3.   ?    There should be a comma after "young politician."
    4.   ?    The middle of the sentence should read:
       "Anakin Skywalker, a Jedi in training, and his mentor..."

14. Identify the part of this sentence that contains redundancy and should be shortened:
    

    1.   ?    Agents said Friday they were
    2.   ?    in the process of pursuing leads
    3.   ?    that players knew of the abuse.

15. The ladybug is __________.

    1.   ?    miniscule
    2.   ?    minuscule

16. Is this new experience taking us into ___________ waters?

    1.   ?    uncharted
    2.   ?    unchartered

17. Are we keeping up with _________?

    1.   ?    the Joneses
    2.   ?    the Jones
    3.   ?    the Jones'

18. Is that grammar trophy sitting on the _________ above the fireplace?

    1.   ?    mantle
    2.   ?    mantel

19. Do the suspects' alibis ___________.

    1.   ?    jibe
    2.   ?    gibe

20. Do your spoken words leap from your ___________?

    1.   ?    vocal cords
    2.   ?    vocal chords

21. She got her _____________.

    1.   ?    just deserts
    2.   ?    just desserts

22. Shall we agree ______________?

    1.   ?    in principle
    2.   ?    in principal

23. Republicans think Jeb Bush is a ___________.

    1.   ?    shoe-in
    2.   ?    shoo-in

24. The church's new ___________ window took two years to make.

    1.   ?    stain-glass
    2.   ?    stained glass
    3.   ?    stained-glass

25. I waited a ____________.

    1.   ?    half hour
    2.   ?    half-hour

26. Marvin is my ______________.

    1.   ?    half-brother
    2.   ?    half brother

27. Impatient as always, by now he was starting to ________ at the bit.

    1.   ?    chomp
    2.   ?    champ

28. Real estate agents have _________ in on the schools' letter grades.

    1.   ?    homed
    2.   ?    honed

29. When the power failed, the lights went out and the electric instruments fell silent. After a moment of confusion, the cast and the orchestra began to sing ____________.

    1.   ?    a capella
    2.   ?    a cappella

30. What some Catholics see as an anti-Catholic backlash is largely ___________ of their own failure to deal firmly with criminals in their midst.

    1.   ?    born
    2.   ?    borne

31. He returned this week from a trip to the University of Maryland, a school __________ had offered him a full ride.

    1.   ?    that
    2.   ?    which

32. Leading the list of donors _________ labor unions.

    1.   ?    is
    2.   ?    are

33. Ballack's play has been _____________.

    1.   ?    hit and miss
    2.   ?    hit-and-miss

34. No __________ than 20 prime-time programs fit under the canopy of crime and punishment

    1.   ?    fewer
    2.   ?    less

35. Do we really have "liberty and justice for ______

    1.   ?    all?"
    2.   ?    all"?

36. ___________than 100 spectators watched Saturday's game.

    1.   ?    Fewer
    2.   ?    Less

37. __________ dollars in the paycheck means _________ money to spend.

    1.   ?    fewer, fewer
    2.   ?    less, less
    3.   ?    fewer, less
    4.   ?    less, fewer

38. His staff has _________ over the details.

    1.   ?    pored
    2.   ?    poured

39. His staff has challenged what _________ considered inaccurate statistics.

    1.   ?    it
    2.   ?    they

40. It would be a mistake to conclude that NBC's "Nightly News," ABC's "World News Tonight" or the "CBS Evening News" ______ headed for extinction soon.

    1.   ?    is
    2.   ?    are

41. That would get ____________ attention.

    1.   ?    people's
    2.   ?    peoples'

42. Give this quiz to ___________ needs it.

    1.   ?    whoever
    2.   ?    whomever

43. It was a new and difficult road, which he _______ well.

    1.   ?    tread
    2.   ?    trod

44. Instead, it's a game of ________________.

    1.   ?    one upmanship
    2.   ?    one-upmanship

45. Headline: "18 months in jail __________ no trial"

    1.   ?    yield
    2.   ?    yields

46. Buddy, you goofed up _________.

    1.   ?    big time
    2.   ?    big-time

47. At last I'm working _________.

    1.   ?    full time
    2.   ?    full-time

48. Make sure those photos are ___________, not color.

    1.   ?    black and white
    2.   ?    black-and-white

49. He likes his eggs ____________.

    1.   ?    lightly peppered
    2.   ?    lightly-peppered