<p>agreed with “in the course of writing”…no reference at all to taking courses@@!!!</p>
<p>and i put no error for that one</p>
<p>Hmm any other opinions of the question where ppl are debating if “By telling” is right/wrong?</p>
<p>i chose by telling (E), the others were just too wordy…</p>
<p>A-Were it to be told to them, the participants would have been biased … something something
B- If they would have been told
C-With it being told to them (i think)
D-Telling them
E-By telling them</p>
<p>I agree with tbonus, E was the right answer. Also it would have sounded like a fragment sentence than a complete sentence if any other choices were picked.</p>
<p>Its If they would have been told</p>
<p>Were it to be told to them is an odd way of saying something.</p>
<p>Also in the course of writing?</p>
<p>It thought ti saying While taking a course of writing?</p>
<p>The thing is – is “By telling” a participial phrase? If not, then E is the answer. If it is, then E contains a misplaced modifier and A is the answer. A was ridiculously awkward though… and if #14 was A that would mean two A’s in a row.</p>
<p>i agree, i put “by telling,” plus, the choice “if they would have been told” is wrong, because it is a conditonal phrase, and in the condional phrase, if and Would CANNOT be together. thus, E or “by telling” is right.</p>
<p>Just by going off of the answers that tb gave on the last page… doesnt A also have an ambigious pronoun (it). Additionally, both phrases play the same role in the sentence so they are either both misplaced modifiers or ok.</p>
<p>If they would have been told, they could not have been…?</p>
<p>hows that wrong? i didnt know you cant have if…would</p>
<p>that would really suck cause thats such a esoteric rule then…never learned that.</p>
<p>I guess by telling them doesnt sound wrong, but it wanst just “By telling them”</p>
<p>It was alittle more complicated and thats why i ruled it out.</p>
<p>O…I was going off of the answers given by TB on the last page (he didnt have "If they would have been told). So ya…I may be wrong, but I am getting sick of debating this question. I am about ready to let go of this test until the scores are released.</p>
<p>Guys its “if they would have been told” because it was a kind of cause and effect sentence</p>
<p>i used Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman, Logan/Jody from Their eyes were watching god, and great gatsby</p>
<p>can someone summarize all of the answers??? Thanks :)</p>
<p>Choice A was not “were it to be told to them” it was “were they to be told,” which is correct.</p>
<p>word</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>A-“Were they to be told” the purpose of the study, the subjects might not answer spontaneously
B- If they would have been told
C-With it being told to them
D-Telling them
E-By telling them </p>
<p>considering this sentence is a Cause-And-Effect sentence, choices C, D, E<br>
DO NOT follow the logical Cause portion</p>
<p>was the question with the city of wales and the walls and castles </p>
<p>choice D? the underlined word was “it” = ambiguity?</p>
<p>i didn’t think “it” was ambiguous because “it” cleary referred to the city
if “it” referred to the wall then the sentence would say that the wall once surrounded the wall</p>
<p>the answer was E.</p>
<p>plus the second part of the sentence is not “the participants would have blah”
it’s “the paticipants might blah blah”
might and would have are two totally different things</p>