Four M-H difficulty writing questions for experts.

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<p>1- The survey showed that most shoppers who drive prefer the mall more than downtown stores simply because finding parking is less difficult. </p>

<p>2- Given her strong sense of social justice, Burns vehemently protested over her party's failure to support a tax decrease for senior citizens.</p>

<p>3- Professor Chen repeated her point that the hero if given the chance to relive the moment, would choose to do it.</p>

<p>4- Today a medical doctor must often make a choice between engaging in private practice or engaging in research. </p>

<p>Go ahead. Give your answers along with your explanations please. :-)</p>

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<ol>
<li>More than -> prefer… to (idiom)</li>
<li>Protested over -> protested against</li>
<li>do it -> accept it. (given chances… do it does not make sense)</li>
<li>or -> between…and</li>
</ol>

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<p>I just want to verify my answers before explaining: </p>

<p>1) ?
2) C
3) D
4) D</p>

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<p>

Maybe I should have done this also. I’m afraid I’ll leave wrong answers/explanations up since CC doesn’t let me edit the post after a while. I don’t like that nothing can be edited.</p>

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<p>Indeed IceQube, your three answers are correct, but I’ve already understood the grammatical errors (Thanks to JeffreyJung :slight_smile: )</p>

<p>If anyone can elaborate a bit more on number one though, because I haven’t fully grasped it yet. :/</p>

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<p>There’s really nothing much to elaborate on.
Simply, prefer… more than is not idiomatic.
prefer has to be followed by to. (maybe over, also? I’m not sure.)</p>

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<p>Ah, “prefer over” sounds more appropriate, but thanks for the other form so I don’t mistake it for a mistake.</p>

<p>Thanks! :D</p>

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<p>Lol I had the same exact questions on this section.</p>

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<p>I got them all wrong though, so I can’t give explanations.</p>

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<p>Referring to spoken English to determine a correct answer really makes you screw up. (like I did)</p>

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<p>1) B</p>

<p>to say “more than” after you’ve already said “prefer” is kind of redundant, isn’t it? It’s another one of those colloquial things that always messes me up too :frowning: this was the most difficult one for me here, especially since i’m not exactly sure what you’d change it to :/</p>

<p>2) C</p>

<p>should be protested against</p>

<p>3) D</p>

<p>“do it” is really awkward with the rest of the sentence…</p>

<p>4) D</p>

<p>when you see the word “between” it is always between x <em>and</em> y.</p>

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<p>I think there is a missing comma on #4…
Professor Chen repeated her point that the hero(,) if given the chance to relive the moment, would choose to do it.</p>

<p>and it would be changed to “do so” instead of “do it”</p>

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<p>I supposed “do so” makes sense also. Ultimately, it comes down to this: it is ambiguous.</p>