Procedes or proceeds?
Profile: Ivy Wigmore
Which is correct?
RDC is unlikely to ever be as secure as the traditional deposit method, in which the bank must receive the physical check before it _______ to deposit funds to the customer’s account.
a. procedes
b. proceeds
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Easier vs. more easily
Profile: Ivy Wigmore
Which is correct?
When a firewall uses static packet inspection, an attacker can get through the filter _______.
a. easier
b. more easily
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Colons and semicolons
Profile: Ivy Wigmore
Which is correct?
A bar code symbol typically consists of five _____ a quiet zone, a start character, data characters, a stop character and another quiet zone.
a. parts:
b. parts;
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When does AP condone the serial comma?
Profile: Ivy Wigmore
Which is correct?
Degaussing is used for a wide and disparate variety of items including ship hulls, _______ and CRT television sets and computer monitors.
a. storage media
b. storage media,
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Commas to set off occupations?
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Which is correct?
Bookmarklets are just one of the Web-related interests of ____________ Steve Kangas.
a. the mathematician,
b. the mathematician
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Come down the pipe or the pike?
Profile: Ivy Wigmore
Which is correct?
According to some experts, RATs are the most dangerous creatures to _________________
a. come down the pipe.
b. come down the pike.
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When should you use commas with “such as” and “including”?
Profile: Ivy Wigmore
Which is correct?
We have received expressions of concern about wiretap Trojans from various _________ the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Privacy Coalition.
a. groups, including
b. groups including
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Collective nouns and subject – verb agreement
Profile: Ivy Wigmore
Which is correct?
As the prevalence of VoIP increases, so ____ the number of attempts to exploit it.
a. do
b. does
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Take a different tact — or tack?
Profile: Ivy Wigmore
Which is correct?
When we learned that our relaxed approach to VoIP security made us more vulnerable to corporate espionage, we decided it was time to take a different ____.
a. tack
b. tact
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Do plural dates take an apostrophe?
Profile: Ivy Wigmore
Which is correct?
The IEEE was formed in the _____ when the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) combined.
a. 1960’s
b. 1960s
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