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Praxis Core Writing language and research skills make up 40% of your final score on the exam. Today, we’ll look at practice questions for language skills. Of the two “skills question” categories in Praxis Core writing,\u00a0language skills is the largest group. You will see 30 language skills questions on the Praxis Core Writing test, and only 4 research skill questions.<\/p>\n
The language skills questions on the Praxis Core fall under two broad categories: usage questions and sentence correction questions.<\/p>\n
Usage questions tend to deal with the finer points of grammar: subject-verb agreement, correct prepositions and pronouns, capitalization, punctuation, the proper formation of idioms, and so on.\u00a0Usage questions are focused on individual words and phrases within a sentence. In each usage question, four\u00a0words or phrases in a sentence are underlined, and test-takers must click the select the underlined form that’s incorrect. There is also an option to click “no error” at the end of the sentence, in case every underlined word and phrase is correct.<\/p>\n
Like usage questions, sentence correction questions also deals with some of the finer points of grammar. However, sentence correction looks at grammar in a more “big picture” way. Words and phrases are presented in terms of parallel structure, the grammar of a whole sentence or clause, and the relationship between multiple clauses and phrases within a sentence.<\/p>\n
Every sentence correction question highlights just one important key phrase in the sentence. Then, four possible corrections to that key phrase are given as options. There is also an option to leave the phrase unchanged.<\/p>\n
Below are six\u00a0practice questions for Praxis Core Writing language skills. These questions do not cover every single aspect of written language that you might\u00a0see on test day. But they do show\u00a0a good cross section of the language skill question type. The first three questions will be usage questions, while the last three will deal with sentence correction. These questions will be followed by an answer key and answer explanations.<\/p>\n
QUESTIONS 1-3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Answer the three questions below by selecting the underlined<\/span> part of the sentence that is incorrect, or by selecting “no error.”<\/p>\n 1) 2)<\/strong> 3) QUESTIONS 4-6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Answer the following questions by selecting the correct modification to the part of the sentence that is in\u00a0bold<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 4) 5) 6) 1)\u00a0<\/strong>Option 2 4) <\/strong>E Usage questions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Sentence Correction Questions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Praxis Core Writing language and research skills make up 40% of your final score on the exam. Today, we’ll look at practice questions for language skills. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2437],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4914],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-praxis-writing-practice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/strong>While<\/span> the cedar tree is used primarily for their<\/u>\u00a0lumber, this tree’s bright colored, sweet-smelling wood is<\/span>\u00a0used in a few other ways, including as\u00a0a source<\/span> of decorative wood chips and as an ingredient in perfume.\u00a0No error<\/span><\/p>\n
\nIt is easy to determine<\/span> why<\/span> certain birds migrate south for the winter, since<\/span>\u00a0food availability is clearly connected from<\/span> the migration habits of birds.\u00a0No error<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The largest pyramid to be<\/span> constructed in Mesoamerica, at a site which<\/span> would later become part of Mexico, were\u00a0built<\/span> of cut stone by the Aztecs between<\/span> the years BCE 300 and CE 1000.\u00a0No error<\/span><\/p>\n
\nMoscow is nearly 7,500 miles from Tokyo and requires airline passengers to <\/strong>spend at least 10 hours in the air when they travel between these cities.<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>Sunflowers are heliotropic, meaning that the blossoms of these plants\u00a0open toward the sun in the morning, follow the sun over the course of the day, and then downward is where they turn\u00a0<\/strong>at night.<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>In 1959 Neil Armstrong flew to the moon in a NASA rocket ship, an expedition that led\u00a0<\/strong>NASA to fund additional lunar landings.<\/p>\n\n
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