<p>1) Sitting at a table signing books, we thought that he looked more bored and resigned than he did excited about this being his first book signing. No Error</p>
<p>For this one, I am not sure if the answer is A or D. My gut says A, but D really sounds awkward if you read it. Please help.</p>
<p>Onto the second ...</p>
<p>2) The husband and wife writing team have several awards for the projects that they have been involved in together, which proves that they are better when writing together than when writing separately. No Error</p>
<p>I'm thinking No Error, but I am not sure =X</p>
<p>Last:</p>
<p>Sent to Canada after the flu epidemic of the early 1900s, his painting depicted Jonathan's first experience traveling by boat.
A) Fine as it is
B) Jonathan's first experience traveling by boat was the subject of his painting
C) the subject of his painting was Jonathan's first experience traveling by boat
D) Jonathan depicted his first experience traveling by boat in his painting
E) Jonathan, who had his first experience of traveling by boat, depicted this in his first painting</p>
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<li><p>I’m thinking D as well. I think it should be just “than excited” or “than he looked excited.” If I recall my spanish grammar correctly, one is supposed to introduce a scene in the past with the imperfect tense (which equates to ing in past in english and a few other things). That’s why I think A is grammatically correct. Not positive about this one, though. </p></li>
<li><p>A. The husband and wife are a team, which is singular. Thus has instead of have. This is why you occasionally hear in sports broadcasting something like “The eagles has just scored a touchdown.” Sounds terrible, but it is grammatically correct, if I recall. </p></li>
<li><p>D. his is ambigous for A and B (could be John or could be outside painter). E is unnecessarily long and somewhat awkward and factually wrong (the original sentence never implied that this was his first painting). C is passive voice.</p></li>
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<p>Edit: yeah, 1 is A. Good catch. I’m more in shock that D is correct, though. One question, though: the intro phrase is technically correct (right?), but what follows isn’t. So would it still be A?</p>
<p>The first one is A because there is a misplaced modifier. “He” was sitting at a table signing book, not “us”. “We” isn’t supposed to follow the beginning phrase.</p>
<p>GammaGrozza, for the last question the answer has to be D because of the modifier at the beginning of the sentence. Therefore, Jonathan has to be the subject of the sentence; D is the logical choice.</p>
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<li><p>A because the modifier is not next to what it’s describing</p></li>
<li><p>A because the team has, not the team have. The husband+wife is an adjective</p></li>
<li><p>D because it is concise and fixes the original error of not putting the modifier next to what it’s modifying.</p></li>
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