<p>So I encountered these two oddly formed sentences back to back and got them both wrong, can anyone explain them?</p>
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<li>(Were I to be granted) a whole month in which to do whatever I wanted, I would travel throughout Africa...</li>
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<p>Correct: As is
Incorrectly chosen: If I would have been granted
Comments: I understand why this is right, but what is wrong with my selected answer?</p>
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<li>Only after reading it carefully several times (was the poem beginning to make sense to me).</li>
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<p>Correct: did I begin to make sense of the poem
Incorrectly chosen: was when I began to make sense of the poem
Comments: The correct answer does not seem to have a traditional subject-verb formation? And why is my answer wrong?</p>
<p>The first is correct as it is because it is less wordy than your answer.</p>
<p>The second one is a dangling modifier/passive voice error. The subject implied before the comma must be the one PERFORMING the action after the comma. The sentence in its pre-corrected form implies that the poem started getting sense out of itself after having read itself several times.</p>
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<li><p>The first is correct. Your answer should read “If I were granted” (or, if the granting is thought to have been in the past, "If I had been granted). Conditional (subjunctive mood) does not have “would” a an auxiliary verb in the “if” portion of the construction.</p></li>
<li><p>“Only after A did B” is an idiomatic parallel structure. Can’t mess with idioms.</p></li>
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<li> There is an error with the tense agreement in your answer. The incorrect answer you chose is in the conditional past (“would have,” meaning this could have taking place in the past), whereas the latter part of the sentence is in the conditional future (an action that could take place). This whole sentence should be in the past tense or in the future tense, not both.</li>
<li>Look at PusatShrade’s comment.</li>
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