<p>Between you and me, this restaurant does not serve the best porterhouse steak in the city, though the service is impeccable and the decor exquisite.</p>
<p>A. as underlined
C. Between you and me, this restaurant des not serve the best porterhouse steak in the city, though its service and decor are impeccable and exquisite.</p>
<p>Genisse's two nieces, although they had recently celebrated their birthdays, asked for presents almost everyday. No Error.</p>
<p>A foreign-born population is defined as persons born outside a country in which they are residing whose parents are neither citizens of that country nor beginning the process of naturalization. No Error.</p>
<p>No, I don't think so. 'Cause "asked" is in the imperfect tense -- it's a repeated action in the past. Which makes sense, since the sentence says "had recently celebrated," which is pluperfect (or past perfect), a tense that is used to refer to an event that has completed before another past action. </p>
<p>Think about this sentence: I had just sat down, and I got up.
as opposed to I had just sat down, and I get up.</p>
<p>Clearly, the first one is right, because of the "had just sat," which is in the pluperfect tense. The only difference is that "got up" is past tense, not imperfect.</p>
<p>So let's try this one: I had just gained twenty pounds, so I exercised every day.
as opposed to I had just gained twenty pounds, so I exercise every day.</p>
<p>...Right? So "asked" is correct. </p>
<p>--</p>
<p>I chose D because "everyday" should be "every day"... although I guess that could have been a typo on anhtimmy's part...</p>
<p>I said "C" for the third one because "whose parents" should be "and whose parents" -- otherwise, "whose" would refer to the word directly preceding it, "residing" (makes no sense) or the noun closest to it, "country" (which it isn't.)</p>
<p>I don't think whose has a problem, because:</p>
<p>A foreign-born population [is defined as persons born outside a country in which they are residing] whose parents are neither citizens of that country nor beginning the process of naturalization. </p>
<p>so, "is...residing" is a separate <em>clause (?)</em>, and whose would automatically go with population.</p>
<p>Also, I think second one should be E (yes, I am contradicting the book...), because:</p>
<p>nothing wrong with B or C, because if one of them has to change tense, so does the other--so it would be impossible to change either of them (plus it's correct: "had recently celebrated" is past perfect, which describes an action happening before a past action, and thus the second part HAS to be in the past, so "asked" is correct for simple past)</p>
<p>nothing could possibly be wrong with "neices" (A), "almost" doesn't have a problem, and "everyday" is one word and is correct.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with “D” (every day) because (this is totally grammatical trivia XD): “every day” – each day. Everyday = adj. (ex: “everyday wear”), meaning commonplace. So in this case, the spoiled brats are asking for presents ever day, not commonplace.</p>
<p>I was just totally out of my mind before. Had it been a real exam, I guess I would have been...lucky? XD</p>