<p>Persistent use of antibacterial soaps in homes both kills(A) many innocuous(B) bacteria and encourages(C) harmful ones to develop even more resistant (D) strains. No error.</p>
<p>To insist that a poem means whatever one (A) wants it (B) to mean is often ignoring (C) the intention and even(D) the words of the poet. No error.</p>
<p>Why its wrong (or not) and why. Thank you!</p>
<p>For the first one I believe it’s a) “both kills” because it should be “kills both” instead. Having both first suggests there are 2 things there when really there’s just one.</p>
<p>Second one is no error? IDK I can’t really tell from your choices which ones would be underlined…</p>
<p>Both kills is right. Persistent use … both kills…and encourages. Both is stressing the verbs not the types of bacteria. First one is no error.</p>
<p>Second one (C), it should be “to ignore”. It’s a parallelism error.</p>
<p>^^ You’re right. I totally skipped over “encourages.” Never answering anyone’s question that early again lol</p>
<p>is it “to ignore” b/c it says “to mean” in front of it?</p>
<p>No, it’s “to ignore” because it parallels “To insist.”<br>
The overall structure (after corrected) is: To insist ___ is to ignore ___ .</p>
<p>Thanks a lot siren!</p>
<p>I thought that “often ignores” would also work. Or no?</p>