TEAS English Questions

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The correct answer is B: Complex. This sentence contains an independent clause "The tall man entered the restaurant" and a dependent clause "wearing a black raincoat, a yellow hat, and one red shoe." The dependent clause cannot stand alone as a complete sentence, making it a complex sentence. Other choices are incorrect as the sentence does not have multiple independent clauses for a compound or compound-complex sentence, and it is not a simple sentence as it contains a dependent clause.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The correct answer is B (second; first). The underlined words "I am planning" indicate a first-person point of view, as the speaker is referring to themselves. The words "You should know" indicate a second-person point of view, as the speaker is addressing the listener directly. Therefore, the point of view indicated in the sentence is a combination of second-person and first-person perspectives. Choice A (third; second) is incorrect because the sentence does not contain any third-person perspective. Choice C (first; second) is incorrect as it reverses the order of the perspectives in the sentence. Choice D (first; third) is incorrect because there is no indication of a third-person perspective in the sentence.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The given sentence, "You are a tutor," is a simple sentence as it consists of only one independent clause without any dependent clauses. It contains a subject ("You") and a predicate ("are a tutor"). Therefore, the correct answer is A: Simple. The other choices are incorrect because a complex sentence would require at least one independent clause and one dependent clause, a compound sentence would consist of two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction, and a compound-complex sentence would have multiple independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: The correct answer is C: Conjunctive adverb. "However" is used to connect two independent clauses and shows contrast. It functions as an adverb modifying the whole sentence. It is not a preposition (A) as it doesn't show a relationship between nouns. It is not a conjunction (B) as it is not joining two clauses without modifying them. It is not a subordinating conjunction (D) as it doesn't introduce a dependent clause.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: The correct answer is A: piqued. In this context, "piqued" means to stimulate or arouse. A childhood reading of Tales from Shakespeare would stimulate or arouse Helene's interest in studying Shakespeare. The other choices are incorrect: B: peaked means reached the highest point, C: peked and D: peeked are misspellings and do not make sense in the context of the sentence.