Grammar Questions

<p>A poetic form congenial to Robert Browning was the dramatic monologue, it let him explore a character's mind without the implications demanded by stage productions.</p>

<p>a. monologue, it let him explore
b. monologue, which let him explore
c. monologue that lets him explore</p>

<h2>Which one is correct?</h2>

<p>The Empire State Building, the Sears Tower, the Canadian National Tower-each of these structures was the tallest in the world at the time they were built. No error</p>

<p>What's wrong with the sentence?</p>

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<p>Could I change "You can even buy posters of his paintings" into "Even ordinary people like us can buy posters of his paintings"?</p>

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<p>Thanks</p>

<p>for the first one, this choice is correct - b. monologue, which let him explore. A creates a comma splice, while C is a run on sentence.</p>

<p>the second one is tricky. but i would say that the problem is the "they". did you forget to underline this? i think it should be "The Empire State Building, the Sears Tower, the Canadian National Tower-each of these structures was the tallest in the world at the time it was built. No error". what helps me figure out questions like this one is to read it as "each ONE was the tallest in the world at the time IT was built." the college board adds stuff like "these structures" to fool you into thinking that the subject is plural when in fact it is singular.</p>

<p>for your third question, both of those are correct, but it would depend on the context. you have to keep the pronoun consistent, so it would depend on whether the pronoun was "you" or "us". </p>

<p>hopefully this makes sense.</p>

<p>Thank you very much.
The third one is in a paragraph and neither "you" or "we" existed before. The correct answer is "one can even buy posters of his paintings" >_<</p>

<p>Why do you think choice c of the first one is a run-don sentence?
I think "that" mean monologue. Besides, monologue is a singular noun.
Could you explain it? Thanks.</p>

<p>You're looking at "lets" as being the singular form of the verb that matches the singular form of the subject "monologue." But in the sentence, "lets" is not the singular form; it's the present tense. "Let" is not plural; it's the past tense.</p>

<p>Saying, "A poetic form congenial to Robert Browning was the dramatic monologue that lets him explore . . . " makes it present tense, which doesn't match with "was", or acknowledge the fact that Browning is dead.</p>

<p>yes, chedva is correct.</p>