<p>Hello fellow test takers,</p>
<p>I'll get right to the question.</p>
<p>Mediators were standing by, prepared (to intervene in)(A)
the labor dispute (even though)(B) both sides (had refused)(C)
earlier offers (for)(D) assistance (No Error)(E)</p>
<p>Answer is D.</p>
<p>If I have more questions, I'll just append it to this topic.</p>
<p>Thanks you in advance.</p>
<p>P.S. I don't understand; I always miss 3-4 problems in the Error ID questions. Why? Can anyone point to some tutorials, specifically, that helped you increase your score?</p>
<p>I believe it would be earlier offers to assist, not for assistance. Vagueness? I’m not sure, but I know it’s D.</p>
<p>No, because assistance is not underlined. If it was underlined, I guess you could change it to to assists, but since it isn’t underlined, it wouldn’t be to assistance. lol.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply.</p>
<p>One more question:</p>
<p>Traffic was heavy, so by the time Brianne finally (arrived at)(A) the theater, we (waited)(B) for her for an hour, (missing)(C) the (entire)(D) first act of the play. (No Error)(E)</p>
<p>The sentence, unaltered, would assert that the groups had refused the earlier offers because they wished to have assistance. “For,” in this context, would mean more closely “in return for,” e.g. “both sides refused the earlier offers for money.”</p>
<p>Traffic was heavy, so by the time Brianne finally (arrived at)(A) the theater, we (waited)(B) for her for an hour, (missing)(C) the (entire)(D) first act of the play. (No Error)(E)</p>
<p>Should be B, as the proper tense would be the pluperfect, i.e. “had waited.” This is because the action of her arrival is expressed in the past tense, and yet the waiting took place beforehand.</p>
<p>To clarify my first post, the correct preposition is “of.”</p>
<p>“offers of assistance” is the same structure as “eating of the apple.” The latter represents the act of eating the apple, and the former represents the act of offering assistance.</p>