Answers to flyer questions

The correct answers in italics.


1. What’s the correct answer to the question “Who’s calling?”
a) It’s I. b) It’s me.
2. Which is correct? A) He is taller than I. b) He is taller
than me.
3. She is a better skater than (a. he b. him).
4. a. We b. Us Christians believe in eternal life.
5. Please give this car to a) whoever b) whomever needs it.
6. But although he a) was b) were dead, yet shall he live.
7. How should you answer if greeted “Hi, how are you?” a) I’m fine.
b) I’m good (In both cases assuming that you woke up feeling
like a million dollars.)
8. Tell your brother that he (a. need b. needs) not come tomorrow.
9 Which is correct? b) Who said, “Et tu, Brute?”? b) Who said,
“Et tu, Brute?”
10. What’s wrong with this sentence? “Look at that”! he exclaimed. “Did
you see that”? In this particular sentence, the exclamation point and the
question mark shoould come inside the quotation marks.
11. How about this one? “Darling”, the wife purred, “buy me a Jaguar”. (Commas
and periods come inside quotation marks.)
12. Colons and semi-colons come a) inside b) outside quotation marks.
13. (a) With regard b) With regards) to your proposal,
please know that it has been tabled for today’s meeting.
14. The swindler got his a) just deserts b) just desserts.
15. Which is correct? a) One cannot eat his pie and have it too.
b) One cannot have his pie and eat it too.
16 Which is correct? a) To boldly go where no man has gone before…
b) To go boldly where no man has gone before…
17 Ice tea or iced tea? Stain glass or stained glass?
Teenage daughter or teenaged daughter?
18 After completing your work, do you say “I’m finished.”? Or “I’m
done.”?
19. Which is correct? a) The country is comprised of 7,000 islands.
b) The country comprises 7,000 islands.
20. Which is correct? a) I had never done business with him before.
b) I have never done business with him before.
21. Which is correct? Experts ( had, have) not thought the sound
barrier could be breached until Chuck Yeager did it.

AND, over five hundred tricky pronunciations like stabilize, tortoise, lambast, pivot, granite, martyr, vale (as in “vale of tears). Four hundred prepositions, five hundred plural forms, four dozen irregular verbs and their present, past, and past participle.