help on grammar questions?

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<p>I would really appreciate some help with these questions. Thanks!</p>

<p>1)The survey (showed that) most shoppers who drive prefer the mall (more than) downtown stores (simply because) finding parking spots is (less difficult) at the mall.
2) For people (in) many ancient societies, work was only a (means of) survival (rather than) a way (to improve your) standard of living.
3) In constant (demand as) a speaker, Ms. Chernock (has never been) (more busier) than she (is now).
4) In germany, foresters discovered that trees killed by acid rain had begun to die four years (earlier, even though the trees had shown no signs on disease then).
a) earlier, even though the trees had shown no signs of disease then.
b)earlier, but no showing any signs of disease then.
c) earlier, no outward signs of disease had been shown then in the trees, however.
d)earlier without any signs of disease shown then.
e) earlier, not then having shown any signs of disease, however.
5)Though (best known) as a jazz vocalist, he (also enjoyed) gospel music, (wherby) he told his manager that he wanted to make a (recording of) his favorite gospel songs.
Thanks. If u can expalin these (already have the answers), this would mean a lot!</p>

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<p>bump… anyone? Really need a grammar whiz to help me out here haha. Could be the difference between a low 700 and a mid/high 700! Thanks!!</p>

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<p>anyone???</p>

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<p>I think 2 would be the “your” choice. Point of view shift.</p>

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<p>1) is b (more than) because one prefers x over y, and not x more than y</p>

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<p>3) “more busier” is wrong because the more is redundant, ‘busier’ itself already implies that she is more busy</p>

<p>5) “also enjoyed” should be “also enjoys”- though he was known as x, he also enjoys y</p>

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<p>thanks man! but for 5, the answer is whereby</p>

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<p>^oops Rereading it, I feel like whereby is the wrong word to link the two clauses, a word like “thus”, or even “and so” would make it better. “Whereby” itself means ‘by what’ or ‘by which’</p>

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<p>ok thanks again! Also, do you, by any chance, know what the answer is to number 2 and why that is the answer?</p>

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<h1>2: “your” should be “their” to agree with the subject</h1>

<h1>4: choice a (by process of elimination). all the other choices are awkward. choice b is an incomplete sentence; choice c is a comma splice; I believe choice d is grammatically correct, but in context, it does not make much sense (why would trees killed supposedly killed after the acid rain start dying before the rain?); choice e is an incomplete sentence</h1>

<h1>5: “whereby” is mis-used. whereby is like saying “by means of” or “through which” (e.g. I explained the answers for the grammar questions, whereby I was able to review grammar for the SAT.)</h1>

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<p>4khaos- Thanks man! number 2 was really easy haha. I hate it when it is hard to discern the problems in these sentences. It isnt until u see the answer that u understand it haha.</p>

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<p>No problem, I’m having the same trouble… I might get 5 or 6 wrong on a writing section, but if I go back to check those questions, I can usually identify the real error.</p>

<p>Too bad we don’t get a second chance to correct our mistakes =P</p>

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<p>Of the 5 questions the first is the hardest. In spoken English we often hear the phrase “I prefer something more than something”.</p>

<p>There is a very well written explanation in 2008 on CC why the “more than” is wrong. It’s really not because the idiom is “to”, but rather because “prefer” opens up a comparison. </p>

<p>The explanations is this:
“Prefer” implies a binary comparison between two objects. However, you cannot “prefer” one object in itself, since “prefer” is a relative term. You can like one thing, but you cannot prefer one thing. You cannot prefer bread, nor can you prefer cereal; consequently, you cannot prefer bread more than you prefer cereal. You can only prefer bread to cereal.</p>