Practice quiz: Clear sentences

4 questions. Pick an answer to see if it is right. You can try as many times as you like. These are for practice: the final test has different questions.

1. 1.According to Gopen and Swan, where do readers expect the most important new information?

   At the start of a sentenceAt the end of a sentence (stress position)In bracketsIn footnotes
2. 2.What makes this hard to read: 'The finding that, in [25 words], accuracy fell, was unexpected'?

   Too shortThe subject waits too long for its verbToo many numbersPassive voice only
3. 3.The skim test reads...

   only the abstractthe first sentence of every paragraphthe referencesthe last page
4. 4.'We performed an analysis of the data' is better written as...

   An analysis was performed by us of the dataWe analysed the dataData analysis performance was doneIt is important to note that we analysed