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Principal / Principle - Exercise 1

Choose the correct word in each sentence below. When you have finished, click on the "Check My Work" button to view the answers.

1. A cheesecake's ( principal principle) ingredients are cream cheese and sugar.

2. The district attorney assigned her office's ( principal principle) prosecutor to the highly publicized trial.

3. Lisa is vegetarian because her (principals principles) tell her that all life has value.

4. Lisa's (principal principle) dietary concern is getting enough protein, vitamins, and minerals from non-meat sources.

5. Boyle's Law describes the (principal principle) that an enclosed gas's pressure and volume are inversely related.

6. At the assembly, our school's (principal principle) introduced each guest speaker.

7. We want an intelligent, capable, and (principaledprincipled) leader.

8. My (principal principle) reason for not buying that company's sneakers is that sweatshop labor conflicts with my (principals principles).

9. The leavening (principal principle) inflates breads by heating and expanding gas bubbles within their dough.

10. John's promotion will make him a (principal principle) partner in the firm.

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Margaret L. Benner
Director, Writing Support Program
English Department
Towson University
benner@towson.edu