Extremely hard Writing MC

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<p>Over the years, Cahokia people built more than one hundred earthen mounds of various sizes and functions around six open plazas, some of which remains can still be seen after five hundred years of erosion.</p>

<p>(A) some of which remains can still
(B) some of the remains of which still to
(C) the remains of some, which can still
(D) the remains of some of which still to
(E) the remains of some of which can still</p>

<p>Around 230 million years ago, the west coast of what is now Europe and the bulge of northwestern Africa began to collide slowly with the east coast of North America, the coming together of the landmasses to form the supercontinent Pangea. </p>

<p>(A) the coming together of the landmasses to form the supercontinent Pangea
(B) the landmasses coming together to form the supercontinent Pangea
(C) and with the landmasses coming together to form the supercontinent Pangea
(D) the supercontinent Pangea to be formed from the coming together of the landmasses
(E) forming the supercontinent Pangea by the landmasses coming together</p>

<p>All of these are by the college board</p>

2

<p>1) E
2) B</p>

<p>amiright?</p>

3

<p>Got the same answers as IceQube.</p>

4

<p>Modern bluegrass songs, telling of love and despair and celebrating mountain beauty, reflect the genre’s rural origins.</p>

<p>(A) as is…
(B) Modern bluegrass songs through their telling of love and despair and celebrating mountain beauty,</p>

5

<p>I wanna say A?</p>

6

<p>Yea, but why?</p>

<p>I had <a href=“A”>b</a>, but switched it to <a href=“B”>b</a>.</p>

7

<p>Are IceQube’s answers correct ?</p>

8

<p>Eliminate the phrase offset by commas “telling … beauty” and A reads fine. That’s a sign that A is correct.</p>

9

<p>Ok I understand that (A) is correct, but why is (B) wrong?</p>

10

<p>B personifies “modern bluegrass songs” as “telling” something. B also sounds awkward - “Modern bluegrass songs through their telling of love and despair and celebrating mountain beauty,” is one long phrase!</p>

11

<p>So the lesson of the day is to avoid -ing words when used even mildly awkwardly, and also to use modifiers.</p>

12

<p>Are IceQube’s answers correct ? (for your first 2 questions)</p>

13

<p>yes…10char </p>

<p>The second one is B only because it is the least passive</p>