<p>it’d be really helpful to me if someone could explain these answers </p>
<li><p>I have gone to only one football game after I graduated from high school. No error</p></li>
<li><p>The rado station received the most number of calls from listeners on the evening it aired a discussion of the music of Aretha Franklin. No error</p></li>
<li><p>Never before had a group of artists been so isolated from society and from official patronage as was the so-called Impressionists. No error</p></li>
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<p>the answers are:
- after
- the most number
- as was </p>
<p>for number 3, i’m assuming that “as was” needs to be replaced by “as were”, but i’m confused because it states “a group of artists” so shouldn’t it be singular?</p>
<p>and i have no idea why the answers to numbers 1 and 2 are right…help?</p>
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<li><p>Should be since, not after. Since implies use of "have gone." If you said after, the sentence would have to be, "I went to only one..."</p></li>
<li><p>"The most" is sufficient, saying "the most number of" is redundant.</p></li>
<li><p>You're correct.</p></li>
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<p>thnx for the explainations :)
now back to studying...</p>
<p>On #3, it's "as were" because the subject of the clause is "the so-called Impressionists." It's much easier to see if you reorder the last few words to make it "as the so-called Impressionists were."</p>
<h1>2 is a common type of problem. The word "most" doesn't properly modify number. diamondbacker is right, you could just have "the most," or if the word "number" has to be included for some reason, then it should be "the largest number" or "the greatest number." A similar situation occurs with words like "velocity." Colloquially, people often say "the fastest velocity," but this is not actually right--the object moving with the velocity is fast, but the velocity itself is not "fast," it's "large" or "great."</h1>
<h1>1, don't have anything to add to what diamondbacker wrote.</h1>
<p>Yup, QuantMech's reasoning is correct. It is "as were."</p>