<p>ok guys, i’ve been doing the tests and on test 6 i got -9. in this section alone i got -12!!! freacking A, it feels like im getting worse
anyway, please excuse my whining, i just had a few questions.</p>
<li><p>Alerted by the nervousness and evasiveness of the witness, the jurors were quick to perceive that his statements were inconsistent to those had had made earlier.
"inconsistent is wrong, should it be inconsistent with?</p></li>
<li><p>In many respects Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary are very similar characters, but Bovary has the most spirit and determination.
im guessing its “more spirit” but why cant “most” work?</p></li>
<li><p>For the past hundred years or more, Yellowtone National Park was a kind of…
“was” is wrong in this sentence, why?</p></li>
<li><p>Far away from having been a diehard conservative.
“far away” is incorrect, once again, why?</p></li>
<li><p>Many nations, and the United Nations itself, has issued stamps…</p></li>
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<p>i thought “itself” should be “themselves”?
but the error is “has” why?</p>
<li>The programmers always talked of having too much to do, but in truth they had a lesser amount of work to do than their colleagues.</li>
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<p>“they had a lesser amount to do than”</p>
<p>should be changed to “they had less work to do”</p>
<p>but dosent “their work was the least among” work too?</p>
<p>sorry for so many questions,</p>
<p>PLZ HELP</p>
<p>1.inconsistent with
2.When you compare two things/persons ,you should use ‘‘more’’ .When you compare three persons/things ,use ‘‘most’’
3.You need to use present perfect here . ''For the past hundreds of years ,the national park HAS BEEN a kind of.
You need present perfect because this park ‘‘keeps being whatever it is’’ If you use ‘was’ ,then the park is not more ‘‘whatever it was’’
4. I dont think ‘‘Far away from having been a diehard conservative’’ is the whole sentence.You are missing sth.
5.I think it should be ‘‘have’’ ,instead of ‘‘has’’ ‘‘Many nations’’ is plural.
6.The error occurs because the original sentence compares the amount of work to colleagues. You should fix it so that it compares the amount of work the programmers have,to the amount of work their colleagues have.</p>
<p>These mistakes you made are probably some of the easiest in the writing section, so get your basic grammar down; you’re lacking `~~</p>
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<li>idiom, inconsistent with ~
2 ^ more for 2 (ie. better), most 3+(ie. best). FYI, between is also 2, among is 3.</li>
<li>the word “For” and sometimes " since " indicate that the sentence req a present perf (has, have)</li>
<li>Far away is implying physical distance, whereas “far from” is more… mental, conceptual?</li>
<li>United Nations is 1 country, its proper noun. this is like… elementary grammar… so yes
“many nations” is the subject, so it req. a plural verb.</li>
<li>“their work was the least to do” inappropriately shifts from people to work, and sounds hella awkward.</li>
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<p>so for number 3 it dosen’t matter if i use have or has?</p>
<p>has is only for singular; have is for plural…
in this case, Yellowstone park, use “has”</p>