<p>All questions from Gruber's.</p>
<p>The police and agents of the FBI [arrested the owner of a Madison Avenue art gallery yesterday] and charged him with receiving paintings stolen last November.</p>
<p>--> why is the A: [yesterday arrested the owner of a Madison Avenue art gallery]</p>
<p>[Barrymore had many wives, Garrick one], but each is remembered not for his women but for his talent.</p>
<p>--> why is it not: [Barrymore had many wives, Garrick had only one wife]</p>
<p>Biologists often say that [they, and not chemists or physicists have] the answer to the improvement of life on earth.</p>
<p>--> why is the A: [it is they, not chemists or physicists, who have]</p>
<p>John, whose mother is a teacher, [is not so good a student as many other friends] I have with no academic background in their families.</p>
<p>--> the explanation says that for negatives (i.e. "not"), you have to use "so" instead of "as" ... really? why is it not: [does not have the studios qualities of many other friends]</p>
<p>After our waiting in line for three hours, [the tickets had been, much to our disgust, sold out] when we reached the window.</p>
<p>--> why is the A: [the tickets had been sold out, much to our disgust,]</p>
<p>She prefers to write poems which describe the slums and [study the underprivileged's habits].</p>
<p>--> why is the A: [to study the habits of the underprivileged]. The explanation says it's because of parallelism (as in "to write" and "to study") but isn't it also possible to mean parallelism as in --> ... which " ** describe ** the slums" and " ** study ** the ..."</p>
<p>First the student did research in the library, [then he wrote his English composition].</p>
<p>--> why is the A: [and then he wrote his English composition]. Is the structure --> "first ... and then"?</p>
<p>THANKS!</p>