GED GED-Writing Value Pack (Frequently Bought Together)

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Making a Budget
(A)

• A. no revision is necessary
• B. move sentence 4 to follow sentence 2
• C. remove sentence 4
• D. move sentence 4 to follow sentence 5
• E. move sentence 4 to the beginning of paragraph A
• F. Making a budget is very easy if you no the basic procedure and a few principles.B.First, writing down all your income for one month.C.Income, including your paycheck or other checks from Social Security and the government, means all the money you receive.D.Next, figure out all your regular monthly expenses.E.Rent and utilities are important regular expenses; you should also include expenses for food and medicine you take regularly.(6) You must not forget because they add up, the smaller monthly bills such as payments for credit cards, interest on loans, and insurance.
  (B)
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  You also should keep track of minor daily expenses because you probably spend more on them than you realize.(8) These includes purchases of such things as sodas, snacks, newspapers, magazines, and candy.(9) Add them up for a week and then multiply the weekly total by the number of weeks in the month to determine the total monthly cost.(10) Transportation costs, such as bus and subway fairs along with gasoline and tolls, should also be calculated as monthly expenses.
  (C)
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  Finally, it's important to plan as much as possible for special expenses, such as visits to doctors and dentists and repairs to your home or car.(12) Gifts for such events as Christmas and birthdays are other kinds of expenses you can plan for certain months.(13) Other activities, such as celebrating a holiday or taking a vacation, often demand extra spending, too.(14) Some months may also require you according to the season to buy new clothes.(15) By preparing a budget in all these areas, you can figure out how much money you need for each month, this will help you watch your spending and may help you to save for the future. -- Exhibit -Sentence Next, figure out all your regular monthly expenses. Which revision should be made to the placement of sentence 4?

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Which revision would improve the effectiveness of paragraph E?

• A. begin a new paragraph with sentence 18
• B. move sentence 12 to the end of paragraph E
• C. move sentence 14 to the beginning of paragraph E
• D. remove sentence 14
• E. move sentence 12 to follow sentence 17

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Sentence She proved to be a diligent worker a team player, and a trusted friend.
Which correction should be made to sentence 4?

• A. replace She with Her
• B. insert a comma after trusted
• C. insert a comma after worker
• D. replace team with teem
• E. no correction is necessary

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Comics:A Window on Life
(A)

• A. replace it is with they are
• B. change they are to they were
• C. When I was a child.B.A clergyman said that he read the comic strips in the daily paper every day.C.This amazed me because I believed that comics was for the young.D.I thought adults considered comics juvenile.E."But no,"he said."Comic strips can give you an insight into the human condition the way people think and behave." (6) Today, most would agree that he will be right.(7) The wide range of topics treated in the daily comic strips doesn't miss much about how people live their lives.
  (B)
  (8)
  A popular comic strip subject is family life.(9) Strips on the family range from stay-athome parenting with all its joys and trials to when the kids went to a restaurant with all the things that can go wrong there.(10) Some strips deal with sibling relationships.(11) Others explore adolescence and the stresses of children becoming more independent.(12) The humorous look at the role of husbands and wives in the family also makes for interesting reading.
  (C)
  (13)
  Pets have been playing an important role in comic strips.(14) Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip.(15) Who can resist a cynical self-centered cat or a lolloping, brainless dog, especially if it gets the better of the humans?
  (D)
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  Comic strips allow people to laugh at themselves and their very human failings.(17) A little light is brought into our lives by them for a brief moment each day.(18) They are also a barometer of popular culture, telling what the social trends are and how some people regard them.(19) If the comic strips suddenly disappeared from the newspapers, society would lose a valuable piece of its culture. -- Exhibit -Sentence 1 Sometimes they are secondary to the human characters, the family dog, or rabbit, but sometimes it is the whole point of the strip. Which correction should be made to sentence 14?
• D. replace whole with hole
• E. no correction is necessary
• F. remove the comma after characters

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Sentence 1This statement applies not just to those employees in the factory to all of your personnel.
Which correction should be made to sentence 13?

• A. replace personnel with personal
• B. insert a comma after employees
• C. replace in with of
• D. insert a comma after applies
• E. insert the word but after factory