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<p>(Once a model) of corporate efficiency, the company (had) by the late 1990s become so large and bureaucratic (to where) it could no longer (compete with) smaller firms. </p>

<p>Answer is "to where" . What would be the correct way of saying it? I chose "had". I thought you only use perfect past to show an event prior to another, so why is it correct in this sentence?</p>

<ol>
<li>Egypt's chief archaeologist (has reported) (the discovery of) a pyramid thought to (be built) some 4,300 years ago for (the founder of) the Old Kingdom's Sixth Dynasty. </li>
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<p>answer is be built</p>

<p>"Were they to be told" of the defendant's criminal record, the jurors would be unable to consider the current case without bias</p>

<p>answer: no error</p>

<p>The cape buffalo plays a vital role in the ecology of the "grasslands when they eat" tall, coarse grasses and thereby encouraging the growth of the shorter, softer grasses eaten by smaller animals.
answer: grasslands, eating</p>

<p>PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY ALL OF THESE ANSWERS ARE correct.... THANKS!!! GRASIAS! MERCI!</p>

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<p>In the first, “to where” should be replaced with “that” because the word “so” breaks flow that would allow “to where” to be used. </p>

<p>In the second, “be built” should be “to have been built”. Using “to be built” would imply the future when we’re talking about the past.</p>

<p>There is no issue with the third. It’s like a defence attorney telling arguing to a judge that if they tell the jury about a defendant’s past convictions, it would bias the jury against him.</p>

<p>In the last, because the second verb (encouraging) ends in -ing, you need a verb that ends in -ing for the first.</p>

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<p>(When looking) at modern photographs of that area of Indonesia, the effects of the 1883 (eruption of) the volcano Krakatau (are) (still evident) My last question. </p>

<p>answer is when looking… why</p>

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<p>why not “their eating” for the buffalo one?</p>

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<p>can some1 plz help me answer my last question!</p>

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<p>(When looking) at modern photographs of that area of Indonesia, the effects of the 1883 (eruption of) the volcano Krakatau (are) (still evident).</p>

<p>“When looking at modern photographs of that area of Indonesia” s a participial phrase. The present participle at the heart of the phrase is “looking”. Here “when” is an adverb. The participial phrase acts as a modifier – i.e. an adjective. In your sentence the noun that the participial phrase modifies is missing. Another way of thinking about the miissing noun is to ask yourself “who does the looking?”.</p>

<p>So you can correct the sentence in one of two ways:</p>

<p>(1) Replace (When looking" with a dependent clause – as “When scientists look at modern …”
or
(2) Keep the participial phrase and add the missing noun, as for example:
When looking at modern photographs of the Sunda Strait, scientists can still see the effects of the 1883 eruption of the volcano Krakatau.</p>

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