help with a few writing questions

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<p>Could someone please explain to me what is wrong with the underlined part of the sentences?</p>

<li>Now that Siena won first place in several regional tournaments, she appears somewhat excited about traveling to the capital to compete in the tennis finals.</li>
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<p>Answer: A</p>

<li>On hockey teams, players are asked to determine which of their peers seems most capable to be captain.</li>
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<p>Answer: D</p>

<li>A recently established body of minority voters have met with officials from the federal government to express its distress over recent instances of electoral discrimination.</li>
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<p>Answer: A</p>

<li>Some advanced math concepts are difficult for students to understand because they call for students to think three-dimensionally.</li>
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<p>Answer: C</p>

<li>Public speaking often causes a political candidate’s stomach to turn, thereby preventing him or her to speak clearly.</li>
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<p>Answer: D</p>

<li>Dogs are such loyal creatures that it is not uncommon for them to travel many miles home after separating from their owners.</li>
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<p>Answer: D</p>

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<ol>
<li>Tense. Should be "has won"</li>
<li>Idiom "capable of"</li>
<li>body is singular, should be "has"</li>
<li>"they" is ambiguous, could be either the concepts or the students</li>
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<p>Not sure about 5 and 6, but I think 6 might be "separating with"</p>

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<p>^ ok thx one more thing:</p>

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<li>Even the president of the corporation is expected to dress in casual clothing, this policy creates an extremely relaxed work environment.
A) this policy creates an extremely relaxed work environment
B) with this policy creating an extremely relaxed work environment
C) and an extremely relaxed environment in which to work being the result of this policy
D) and this policy creates an extremely relaxed work environment
E) an extremely relaxed work environment is created by this policy</li>
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<p>The answer is D, but isn't that a run on sentence?</p>

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<p>i agree with liebenasuka on 1-4
not sure on 5
6. "being separated from" is my best guess <em>shrug</em>
7. D is not a run on because there is a comma before the "and". the two independent clauses "even the president.....casual clothing" and "this policy....work environment" are correctly separated by a comma and conjunction in answer choice D</p>

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<p>For 5, I think it should be clearer, not clearly.</p>

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<p>^ iono but imo clearly sounds better</p>

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<h1>6 is easy.There should be a passive construction (separated from their owners)</h1>

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<p>what book is this from?</p>

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<p>rocket review...i took the tests and wow the writing/cr sections were so hard in it T.T i normally dont find writing sections hard</p>

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<p>5 is weird as ***. Isn't the proper construction "preventing ... *from ...". What am I missing here?</p>

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<p>I don't know why some people tout Rocket Review's practice test as being an accurate test. When I first started the Rocket Review test, I thought the first section of math was accurate, but after I did another math section of the test I started feeling a little weird.</p>

<p>But once I took a look at the reading section, I knew that the test was garbage. That's just what I think.</p>

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<p>i realized the same as raller did.
prevent is followed by from.
preventing him or her from speaking clearly should be correct.
u probably underlined the wrong section of the sentence.
4. such concepts i guess
6. my guess would be "after they are separated from"</p>