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<li><p>In a nearby resort community fewer accidents have been reported and the number of speeding tickets to be issued have decreased since speed bumps were installed.
a)to be issued have decreased.
b)issued have been on the decrease
c) issued have decreased
d) that were issued have no decreased
e)issued decreasing.</p></li>
<li><p>The name "transferware" comes from a nineteenth century technique for which a pattern is engraved onto a copper roll, printed on tissue paper, and transferred onto earthenware dishes.
a) comes from a nineteenth-century technique for which
b) comes from a nineteenth-century technique accordin to which
c) comes from a nineteenth-century technique whereby
d)is a nineteeth century technique wherein
e) means it is a nineteenth-century technique by which</p></li>
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<p>first one is kind of weird, I can’t find a correct answer.</p>
<p>In the second one I would say its “C”</p>
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<li>C
Parallelism to: “fewer accidents have been reported” and “issued have decreased”</li>
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<p>pretty sure 13 i C, tell me if you want an explanation</p>
<p>okay for 5 it can’t be “C” because “number” is singular and “have” is plural…</p>
<p>yes explanations for all please</p>
<p>@gregbob</p>
<p>“Number” by itself is singular, like ex:
Her number is 555-123-4567</p>
<p>A phrase with “number” is determined by its object, ex:
A number of protesters were arrested.
There are significant number of sources.</p>
<p>++all the other answer choices are plural, so yeah.
C is still the answer.</p>
<p>source: google “number singular or plural” @ DailyWritingTips
sorry, idk if I’m allowed to link lol</p>
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It’s not always like this. If the sentence is referring to the number itself (“the number [of people] is decreasing”) then the verb is singular. People can’t decrease; only numbers can. Hence, #5 is faulty: “number . . . has” is correct, not “number . . . have.” I don’t know where the question is from but it seems that either the source made an error in writing the question or you didn’t transcribe it correctly.</p>
<p>For #13, “whereby” means “by which” or “through which.” If I am talking about the best method for drinking water quickly, then I would refer to the method as a method whereby a person can drink water quickest. “for which” doesn’t make sense because a person isn’t able to drink water quickest for the technique, but *by<a href=“via,%20by%20way%20of,%20through”>/i</a> the technique.</p>
<p>oh right, sorry I phrased it wrong lol
so there is no correct answer for #5 then right?</p>
<p>c for both</p>
<p>so for 13, whereby is the same as by which?</p>
<p>Yes, “whereby” means “by which,” or “through which.” Basically you say something occurs “through” or “by” something else to convey the results of some sort of process, rule, method, technique, etc. Like, since you drink “through” a straw, a straw is a tool whereby one can drink. If I travel by foot, then foot is the thing whereby, or by which, I travel. If I sit on a chair, then a chair is a piece of furniture on which I sit. If it is raining because of saturated air, then saturated air is the thing because of which it is raining.</p>
<p>Sorry if that sounds too complicated. Once you get a hang of the structure, constructing it becomes natural.</p>