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Chapter 5: Strategies for Revising

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Post-test 3. Subject-verb agreement with separated subject and verb

Post-test 3. Subject-verb agreement with separated subject and verb
Each sentence contains an error in subject-verb agreement. Correct the errors.

This activity contains 10 questions.

	To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Memory, the vast mental storehouse containing everything we know, enable us to recognize who and (usually) where we are when we awaken each morning.

	To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Most efforts to understand human memory in recent years has used the information-processing approach.

	To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. With this approach, computer science, as well as related fields of study, provide models of the processes involved in memory.

	To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Encoding, storage, and retrieval, the processes involved in memory, has to be successfully completed before remembering can take place.

	To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Encoding, the first of the three processes, involve transforming information into a form that can be stored in memory.

	To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. For example, if you meet someone named Bill at a party, a simple association with another Bill, such as President Bill Clinton or Microsoft founder Bill Gates, improve your ability to recall the name.

	To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Storage, the second memory process, entail keeping or maintaining information in memory.

	To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. A physiological change in the brain - called consolidation - have to take place for encoded information to be stored.

	To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. Information that has been stored in memory are brought to mind during retrieval, the final process.

	To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end. The computer, which is remarkably similar to the human brain in many ways, require similar steps in the processing of information.

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