<p>what was the answer to the were i to be question</p>
<p>I really thought it would be “knowing that he was guilty blah blah but HOPING for leniency” because that would be a case of parallelism (knowing/hoping).</p>
<p>I agree with you confetti, I hope we’re right ;P</p>
<p>I left it as “yet hoping” to maintain parallelism. I can see how there could be ambiguity though.</p>
<p>“Yet hoping” is the clear answer. Otherwise there’s no parallelism.</p>
<p>i put no error like 8 times in a row!!!
did anyone else???</p>
<p>“And yet hope” was the only choice grammatically correct. It can’t be “yet hoped” because the sentence had an independent clause not followed by a comma, so the answer choice had to be a subordinate clause.</p>
<p>I also believe the answer to the bicycle question about the one billion bicycles is connecting the sentence with a semi-colon. The subsequent sentence went like “bicycles may not seem like much today, but to women it was a form of social freedom.” So I found it logical to connect a sentence that says bicycles are commonplace today to a sentence substantiating that statement with a numerical statistic.</p>
<p>^Completely agree with ur first assertion, not second</p>
<p>what was the sentence exactly ^</p>
<p>“The criminal blahblah knowing that the jury would find him guilty yet hoping for leniency”</p>
<p>A) yet hoping
B)yet he hoped
C) yet hoped
D) and yet hoped
E) dunno</p>
<p>yet hoping is out, because it makes it sounds like the jury would find be found hoping for leniency.</p>
<p>yet he hoped - maybe missing a comma, seems like the best</p>
<p>yet hoped - could be the jury doing the hoping</p>
<p>and yet hoped - could be the jury doing the hoping</p>
<p>Only “yet hoping” maintains parallelism. The first part of the sentence is important to include. It was an independent clause, so the entire sentence would be something along the lines of “He pleaded something, knowing this yet hoping for that.”</p>
<p>I don’t think yet hoping sounds the best. I see what you mean by parallelism but it sounds very awkward. Yet he hoped sounds best now that I look at it. </p>
<p>@rd2012.
The original sentence was correct.</p>
<p>Just because it sounds good doesn’t mean it’s grammatically correct.</p>
<p>“It’s me.” sounds better than “It’s I.” but the latter is actually the grammatically correct form.</p>
<p>For the bicycle passage, was it to delete the part about the “Over one million people ride bicycles today” or to put a semicolon?</p>
<p>Delete 10char</p>
<p>^
But then it needs a comma, since yet is a coordinating conjunction.</p>
<p>The criminal entered the courtroom knowing the jury would find him guilty but he hoped for leniency. </p>
<p>That doesn’t look right</p>
<p>The sentence was actually something like “The criminal entered the courtroom, knowing that the jury would find him guilty yet hoping for leniency.”</p>
<p>Despite what it may seem, “knowing” and “hoping” are both participles, acting as adjectives. The action of the sentence is in the first part, which you have to include in considering the answer.</p>
<p>“He pleaded something, knowing that the jury would find him guilty yet hoping for lenience” is so ambiguous, though.</p>
<p>it was "knowing full well "</p>
<p>I don’t think that was an option, and it doesn’t address the contrast in the question.</p>