<p>My bad.. I added another question.. making it trois (french now)..</p>
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<li>*Context is:</li>
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<p>(3) This figure is rather surprising when you consider that organic that organic food is often much more expensive that conventionally grown food. <a href="4">b</a> Organic fruits and vegetables can cost as much as 40 percent more than conventionally grown produce.<a href="5">/b</a> Many people believe that the extra cost is justified because it is more healthful that conventionally grown food. </p>
<p>In context which of the following is the best revision of the underlined portion of sentence 4?
(A) By comparison, organic fruits and vegetables
(C) Indeed, organic fruits and vegetables*</p>
<p>The correct answer is C. I picked A. Why is it C??</p>
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<li>Agreeing upon it beforehand. the new municipal budget passed with little opposition when it was put before the city council.
(A) Agreeing upon it beforehand.
(D) Having been agreed upon beforehand,
(E) Due to agreeing upon it beforehand.</li>
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<p>So I bubbled in A. But I was debating among A, D, and E. The correct answer is D. Why?</p>
<p>*8. The time and the place for such a large event is subject to approving from the mayor's office.
a) The time and the place for such a large event is subject to approving from the mayor's office.
b) For such a large event, the time and the place are subject to the mayor's office's approving them.
c) The time and the place for such a large event are subject to the approval of the mayor's office
d) The time and place for such a large event are subject to be approved by the office of the mayor.
e) Subject to the approval of the mayor's office are the time and place for such a large event taking place. *</p>
<p>I still don't understand this error. The correct answer is C</p>
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<li> “By comparison” implies that what you are getting ready to say is comparing to what you just said. The next sentence simply reinforces what the first sentence said. Indeed emphasizes what you just said. (“In fact” would also work).</li>
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<p>7 and 8. What you need to do first is identify the subject of the sentence. In 7, the subject is the budget. Agreeing is a verb form, and would be talking about the council’s action…agreeing. Since the subject is budget, The budget, having been agreed upon beforehand is correct. Sometimes you just have to take out extraneous words or move the phrase around to figure out the right answer.</p>
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<li> “Time and place” is the subject (are the subjects) of the sentence. “Time and place is subject of approving”… Two ways to explain this. Prepositional phrase starting with “of” needs a noun. Approval is the only noun choice. Also, the correct verb tense is ARE, not is, since there are two things that are approved. e) is clunky and doesn’t clearly state the answer. C is the correct choice.</li>
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<p>For #30, the problem is what Philovitist said: (4) elaborates on the idea presented in (3). The phrase “By comparison” would indicate that you were introducing an opposing idea (such as ‘By comparison, the price of organic meats is actually less than that of conventional meat products’).</p>
<p>For #7, you have to look at the following clause. What passed? It’s ‘the municiple budget’ that passed. The budget can’t agree on anything, it can only be ‘agreed upon.’ So, you could say, ‘Agreeing on it beforehand, the city council passed the municiple budget without much discussion.’ Note that in that case, the city council is both agreeing and passing. If it’s the budget that passed, then it’s the budget that has to be agreed upon.</p>
<p>For #8, the problem is a bit more subtle. While you can use ‘approving’ as a noun, it’s derived from a verb and therefore stresses the action. There’s already a perfectly good noun, ‘approval,’ that stresses the end result, so in this case, it would be preferred. (You might use ‘approving’ in a case like this where the action is the focus: The approving of the budget took up the entire meeting.)</p>