<li>One of the first people to recognize the talent of Langstons Hughes, Jessie Fauset, was an editor at Crisis, publishing Hughes’s poetry in 1921.</li>
</ol>
<p>A. The Same
B. Jessie Fauset who edited Crisis magazine and published
C. Jessie Fauset edited Crisis magazine who published
D. Jessie Fauset, an editor at Crisis magazine, published
E. the editor, Jessie Fauset, published at Crisis magazine</p>
<p>ans: D, I put B. I see why it ain’t A, C, E but can’t see why it ain’t B.</p>
<li>The reason first novels are so often their writers’ best work is that it draws upon all the experiences of childhood.</li>
</ol>
<p>A. The Same
B. is that these first efforts draw upon
C. is because of these first efforts drawing from
D. is because of them drawing upon
E. is their drawing from. </p>
<p>ans: B</p>
<p>B-whers the verb?
B- so obvious, wat r u asking</p>
<p>Can someone else explain this to me cause the above explanation didn’t help at all?</p>
<p>what do u want? do u not understand the question at all? do some process of elimination , then if u get stuck on 2 choices, i’ll help.
if u have no clue on number 2, good luck</p>
<p>it cannot be B.</p>
<p>One of the first people to recognize the talent of Langstons Hughes, Jessie Fauset, was an editor at Crisis, publishing Hughes’s poetry in 1921</p>
<p>here’s choice B.</p>
<p>Jessie Fauset who edited Crisis magazine and published </p>
<p>and D.</p>
<p>Jessie Fauset, an editor at Crisis magazine, published</p>
<p>Choice B is incorrect because there is a lack of verb
take for example the following</p>
<p>My mom who cooked and cleaned.</p>
<p>Does that make sense? no, it is a fragment. for it to make sense we could say</p>
<p>My mom who cooked and cleaned gave me candy for being a smart boy.
(gave is our verb in this sentence)</p>
<p>Choice D is correct because it puts a proper verb in.</p>
<p>My mom, a cook and cleaner, gave me candy.</p>
<p>In choice B, “edited and published” is not a verb, ( i dont know what they are called though) but they basically just modify who Jessie Fauset is
In choice D, it says (without the comma break),
“Jessie Fauset published” which is a typical subject-verb structure</p>
<p>i hope this makes sense im not too great at explaining things over the internet
i could try to explain better if you need me to</p>
<p>ok i think the above explanation made the first question pretty clear. you need a verb, and it is just soooo wordy. say the sentence with B to yourself: does it sound right? No.</p>
<p>As for the second</p>
<p>A is wrong because the subject is “novels” so it doesn’t work (pronouns must match in case and number with the subject)</p>
<p>B is correct</p>
<p>C is wordy - good writing is clear, consistent, and concise. C is none of this.</p>
<p>D you don’t know what the “them” is referring to. It is too ambiguous and also just doesn’t sound right. </p>
<p>E uses their but there is nothing possesive in the sentence. the novels don’t own the past experiences that they draw upon</p>