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<p>The contrasting wealth of the business owners compared with the poverty of the factory workers provoked a flood of scathing condemnations from journalists and politicians.</p>

<p>(A) The contrasting wealth of the business owners compared with
(B) The contrast to the wealth of the business owners with
(C) The contrast between the wealth of the business owners with
(D) In contrast from the wealth of the business owners,
(E) Contrasting the wealth of the business owners,</p>

<p>I chose E, but the answer key says C. Why is C right, and why is E wrong?</p>

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<p>John G. Neihardt felt an obligation to bring the message of the Sioux holy man Black Elk to the larger world, having accomplished this in his book Black Elk Speaks.</p>

<p>(D) world and eventually did it
(E) world, and he eventually did so</p>

<p>I chose D, but the answer key says E. What is E better than D?</p>

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<p>According to no lesser of an authority than Parkman, the most momentous event in the history of colonial North America was the expulsion of the French.</p>

<p>(A) lesser of an authority than
(B) lesser an authority such as
(C) less an authority as
(D) less of an authority than was
(E) less an authority than</p>

<p>I just don't get this sentence. Could someone please explain it to me?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<li><p>Think about the meaning of the sentence. In other words, what provoked the flood condemnations? The answer is of course the contrast in wealth. This sentence requires noun, not a verbal phrase, and so (E) is not correct.</p></li>
<li><p>(D) contains an ambiguous pronoun</p></li>
<li><p>Well first off, you can eliminate (B), (C), and (D), as they do not fulfill the idiomatic expression “less … than”. (D) also contains the incorrect tense.</p></li>
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<p>(A) is redundant because of the use of “lesser”.</p>

<p>-I realize my explanation aren’t very clear, so it’d be great if someone can provide their own rationale.</p>

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<li><p>(E) is wrong because the poverty of the factory workers did not itself contrast anything.</p></li>
<li><p>“it” has no clear antecedent.</p></li>
<li><p>“no less… than” is the idiom.</p></li>
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<p>poverty isn’t doing the action</p>

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<p>For the second question "John…felt an obligation to bring the message of the holy man Black Elk to the world, having accomplished this in his book Black Elk Speaks’.-- Why is the answer not (A) same as above ?</p>