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(b) Andrew Jackson was the only U.S. president who
believed that the world was flat.
(c) Six-time Socialist party candidate for President of
the United States Norman Thomas never polled more
than 884,000 popular votes in one election, but his in­
fluence on American political and social thought was
very effective.
(d) The first U.S. president to ride in an automobile
was William McKinley.
9. Which of the following is a complex sentence?
(a) George Washington’s false teeth were made of
whale bone.
(b) George Washington was deathly afraid of being bur­
ied alive.
(c) Washington’s second inaugural address was 138
words long.
(d) If children are capable of creating grammar with­
out any instruction, then such grammar must preexist
in their brains.
10. Which of the following is a compound-complex sen­
tence?
(a) When President Franklin Pierce ran down an eld­
erly woman, the charges against him could not be
proven, and the case was dismissed.
(b) When George Washington was elected president,
there was a king in France, a czarina in Russia, an em­
peror in China, and a shogun in Japan.

(c) George Washington had to borrow money to go to
his own inauguration.
(d) James K. Polk was the only president to have been
Speaker of the House.
11. Which word group is a fragment?
(a) The Pentagon has more than 3 million square feet
of office space it can house about 30,000 employees.
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