blue book Pg 601 #7

<p>choice D is the answer?? how? it just sounds plain awkward to me</p>

<p>sry i'm really rusty today...moody moody, can't seem to do anything right
also, page 602, #'s 13, 16, 17,19</p>

<p>Its grammatically correct and concise.</p>

<p>uh..how? the sentence starts with "that"?</p>

<p>"that" makes it a noun clause, it is correct. check the stickied list</p>

<p>it's not there. can u explain that further?</p>

<p>ok. whether..or did not, is redundant, whether... is enough
C is just whacked. so is E.
so the important part of this lesson is "That...", words that begin with -that- makes it a noun clause, --That... remains..--
A would've been correct if -or did not- was removed. the 'or did not' makes it excessively wordy. and it's only ONE thing that remains uncertain.
Whether it actually sailed-- whether it didn't actually sail, but not BOTH.</p>

<p>for #7 on 601</p>

<p>A. is wrong because of "actually sailed or did not" - redundant.
B. is wrong because the phrase is worded weirdly - not concise
C. is wrong because of the wrong subject/verb agreement, "actuality does not demonstrate" - subject/verb agreement error
E. is wrong because "their actual sailing" doesn't make sense.</p>

<p>That leaves D. If you remove "That", the first clause becomes independent, creating a comma splice.</p>

<h1>13, I can't explain something that's right lol.</h1>

<h1>16, Pronoun agreement, "its" doesn't go with "fish", which is plural.</h1>

<h1>17, idiom, necessary for</h1>

<h1>19, its "After ____ swam" had is used when you are interrupted. I had been eating when this happened.</h1>