grammar problem! questions from BB.

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<p>1)Five years in the writing, her new book is both a response to her critics’ mistrust (with) her earlier findings and an elaboration of her original thesis. No error.</p>

<p>the error is the word i bracketed "(with)". why is it wrong? this sentence is confusing. i don't get the part "a response to her critics’ mistrust (with) her earlier findings". also, why can't the error be "Five years in the writing". shouldn't it be "her writing" and not "the writing"?</p>

<p>2) 29. Despite its cultural importance, the Daily Gazett (lost) 70 percent of its subscribers since 1920 and,by 1955, was losing as much as$200,000 a year. No error.</p>

<p>the error is "(lost)". is it because of parallel structure? the tenses "lost" and "was losing" need to be kept the same? so in this sentence we have to say "was losing" 2 times?. how about in other sentences?, is it allowable to switch tenses? like "i ate after i had run."</p>

<p>please anyone answer this... it's extremely difficult. >_< thanks</p>

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<p>anyone? please help</p>

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<p>1 ) is an idiomatic problem </p>

<p>2) it should be ( had lost ) because of (since )</p>

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<p>Shouldn’t it be (has lost)?</p>

<p>And I think its (mistrust of)</p>

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<p>yes iam srry it’s has lost</p>

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<p>thanks for answering but i still don’t understand clearly :/</p>

<p>anyone else??? bump bump bump!!!</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>The first one is an idiomatic error, meaning that’s just how English is spoken. </p></li>
<li><p>The since implies a change over a long period of time starting in 1920. In English, the present perfect (has/have) is used to talk about change that has happened over a period of time.</p></li>
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