Which of the following is an example of accidental plagiarism?

A. Summarizing information without including a source credit

B. Submitting a paper that was written by a friend

C. Forgetting to include an in-text citation for information

D. Copying information from a source and identifying it as your own

Answer Explanation:

Forgetting to include an in-text citation is not intentional and probably means that the writer had already included a reference but forgotten about the in-text citation.

Therefore, the Correct Answer is C.

Q #1: Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?

A. The horse rode to our house, the beach, and around the church, before he started to tire.

B. We sat down to eat our meal outside; the night was beautiful.

C. The ladies's hats were all purple; they looked so pretty.

D. The strong heavyset fighter won his first fight, and he was featured in the newspaper.

Answer Explanation

"We sat down to eat our meal outside; the night was beautiful." The semicolon (;) is used correctly in this choice.

Choice A has a comma before and which makes it incorrect.
Choice C has an s after the apostrophe in ladies's, hence it is incorrect.

Choice D also has a comma before and making it incorrect.
Note: And is a joining word and hence should not have commas before or after it.
Q #2: Which of the following sentences correctly follows the rules of capitalization?

A. I plan to enroll in College next year.

B. Even though he moved to New York, he was born in a Western town.

C. The Geography students took a class trip to the Rocky Mountains,

D. The A1 Plumbing Board of Directors gave every employee a raise

Answer Explanation

A capital letter is used for the first word of a sentence and for all proper nouns (words that name a specific person, place, organization, or thing). Capitalization in D is used to indicate the organization and compared to other others that do not follow the requirements for using capital letters, it makes D the correct answer.
Q #3: Which of the following sentences correctly uses subject-verb agreement?

A. Statistics is an interesting subject. However, statistics is often misleading.

B. Statistics are an interesting subject. However, statistics are often misleading

C. Statistics is an interesting subject. However, statistics are often misleading

D. Statistics are an interesting subject. However, statistics is often misleading

Answer Explanation

"Statistics is an interesting subject. However, statistics is often misleading."

In this sentence, both the subject "Statistics" and the verb "is" are in agreement, as they are both singular. The subject-verb agreement rule states that singular subjects should be paired with singular verbs, and plural subjects should be paired with plural verbs. "Statistics" is a singular noun, so it should be paired with the singular verb "is." The other choices have subject-verb agreement errors because they mix singular and plural forms incorrectly.

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