<p>I couldn't find these in the sticky or through searches...</p>
<p>Blue Book:</p>
<p>p 540</p>
<h1>27</h1>
<p>The Novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was once more widely read and was more popular in high schools in the United States than Charlotte Bronte. </p>
<p>p 557 </p>
<h1>7</h1>
<p>Civil Rights leader and author W.E.B. Du Bois was interested in drama because he believed that if you represented historical events on stage it could have a greater, more lasting effect than any exhibit or lecture. </p>
<p>I picked c) "events which were represented historically on stage"</p>
<p>But the answer is e) "representing historical events on stage" </p>
<p>And I'm confused about why c) is wrong....</p>
<p>p 557 </p>
<h1>12</h1>
<p>Persuading even the queasiest of readers to spend hours learning about an extravagant variety of invertebrates, the effect of Richard Conniff's Spineless Wonders is to render the repulsive beautiful</p>
<p>Why is the original wording wrong?</p>
<p>The first one is E because the original sentence is comparing Jane Austen’s novel as being more popular than Charlotte Bronte. It should be comparing Pride and Prejudice to a novel written by Bronte.</p>
<p>Other ones I can’t really give you a specific reason other than that they just don’t sound right to me.</p>
<p>“The first one is E because the original sentence is comparing Jane Austen’s novel as being more popular than Charlotte Bronte. It should be comparing Pride and Prejudice to a novel written by Bronte.”</p>
<p>I think you mean choice (D).</p>
<p>"# 7
Civil Rights leader and author W.E.B. Du Bois was interested in drama because he believed that if you represented historical events on stage it could have a greater, more lasting effect than any exhibit or lecture. </p>
<p>I picked c) ‘events which were represented historically on stage’</p>
<p>But the answer is e) ‘representing historical events on stage’ </p>
<p>And I’m confused about why c) is wrong…"</p>
<p>The event, not the representation of the event, was historical. Thus, an adverb form of “historical” is wrong.</p>
<p>Yeah, I just saw the last part underlined and automatically assumed it was E.</p>
<p>"Persuading even the queasiest of readers to spend hours learning about an extravagant variety of invertebrates, the effect of Richard Conniff’s Spineless Wonders is to render the repulsive beautiful</p>
<p>Why is the original wording wrong?"</p>
<p>The participial phrase doesn’t modify what it should. The sentence would be better in a form similar to this: “Persuading even the queasiest of readers to spend hours learning about an extravagant variety of invertebrates, Richard Conniff’s Spineless Wonders renders the repulsive beautiful.”</p>
<p>^ or “…Richard Conniff renders the repulsive beautiful in Spineless Wonders”</p>
<p>7) this question is describing how “representing historical events on stage” could have a greater effect than any exhibit or lecture. In other words, it is describing how the act of doing so could (possibly) have an effect.</p>
<p>If you say “if you do it, you could die,” you are referring to an act that has not taken place yet and its consequences (death). So it would be wrong to say that something that happened in the past “could” have an effect in this case. It already took place.</p>
<p>“events which were represented historically on stage”
this implies that the events were already represented on stage, and that the events themselves, which happened even further in the past (taking place a long time ago because they were historical) “could” have an effect as if looking into the future</p>