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<p>You want to bold the underlined sections?</p>
<p>^ He actually made another post with the underlined parts and everything. Can you post there? I’d know to know the answers too</p>
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<p>Umm, if you re-read the sentence, you would realize that “boon” is the correct word. Plus, I don’t think ID Error questions require any knowledge of word definitions. So, I believe the answer is E.</p>
<p>^Or if you read the end of my post you would realize that I DID reread the sentence.</p>
<p>The indigenous peoples (A)(in brazil) (B)(compromise a large) number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country (C)(prior to) the European (D)(invasion around) 1500. </p>
<p>The answer is B, but what should it be changed to?</p>
<p>B should be in the past tense “compromised a large”</p>
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Thanks for the quick reply!</p>
<p>(ALthough) the new device was the most (clever) designed bird feeder that ms. rodrigues had (ever owned), it could not keep squirrels (from) stealing the birdseed.</p>
<p>Answer: B </p>
<p>(Contrasting with) (most other) fifteenth-century rulers, Portuguese kings (could count on) the support of the aristocracy ( in any) over seas ventures</p>
<p>Answer: A</p>
<p>Can you contrast with?</p>
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<p>Oh, sorry. I thought that by “Just reread the sentence,” you were asking the quasi-OP to reread the sentence him/herself.</p>
<p>Got this one off collegeboard, don’t understand why:</p>
<p>Today, (also) representing nations (and other) political entities, (flags are used) (to represent) youth groups, athletic competitions, and international bodies.</p>
<p>The SAT says that also is incorrect and should be substituted with “in addition to” but I don’t understand why and under what circumstances you should use which one. any help would be appreciated thanks!</p>
<p>And also just a side question, but can a object ever do a verb?</p>
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It should be “larger than Monaca,” not “larger than THE SIZE OF Monaca.” X is larger than Y; the size of X is greater than the size of Y.
“Tendency of changing her mind often” should be “tendency to change her mind often.” Tendency means inclination. When we think of incline, we think of a direction, or an angle. When we think of direction, we think of either toward or to. Since we are talking about actions here, we use *to<a href=“plus%20a%20verb”>/i</a>.
The answer is E because “nevertheless” is not a coordinating conjunction. In other words, you cannot make a statement, use a comma, use “nevertheless” and then start another statement. You must use a period or a semicolon. A coordinating conjunction (e.g., and, but) can do this; conjunctions like nevertheless and however are NOT coordinating conjunctions. </p>
<p>CORRECT:I want to eat, and I am hungry. (comma is optional)
CORRECT: I am eating, but I am not hungry. (comma is optional)
INCORRECT: I am eating, however, I am not hungry.
INCORRECT: I am not hungry, nevertheless, I am eating.
CORRECT: I am eating; however, I am not hungry.
CORRECT: I am eating. However, I am not hungry.
CORRECT: I am not hungry; nevertheless, I am eating.
CORRECT: I am not hungry. Nevertheless, I am eating.</p>
<p>Reviewing the choices…
A is clearly wrong based on the lesson above.</p>
<p>B is wrong because it implies that something in the first clause (the first statement) is a thing that “ranks him,” which is illogical; he himself ranks among the outstanding automotive pioneers of the 20th century.</p>
<p>C is wrong because it tries to compress the statement “he ranks among…” into a shorter dependent clause, “ranking…” It’s a separate statement; use a semicolon and start over. Otherwise it doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>D is wrong because the semicolon is introducing a dependent clause instead of an independent clause. It is like starting a new sentence stating, “Who nevertheless ranks. . . .”</p>
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The answer is C.</p>
<p>A is wrong because there is no subject. Who is doing the “thinking”?</p>
<p>B is wrong for the same reason, but it is worse because the rest of the sentence is
problematic.</p>
<p>D is wrong because “which are the current television shows have the potential…” does not communicate the idea correctly. One thinks either about which of the current television shows have potential or about which current television shows have potential.</p>
<p>E is wrong because it has no subject, detaches the object of thought into two separate phrases (“current…shows” and “which of them have…potential”–as opposed to, simply, “which current…shows have…potential”), and is overall just wordy and nonsensical.
<a href=“ALthough”>quote</a> the new device was the most (clever) designed bird feeder that ms. rodrigues had (ever owned), it could not keep squirrels (from) stealing the birdseed.</p>
<p>Answer: B
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“Clever” should be “cleverly.” The word is supposed to modify designed. In other words, it is supposed to describe HOW the bird feeder was designed. It describes an action (the act of designing), so you use an adverb. Something is cleverly-designed (or “cleverly designed”–the hyphen is there for effect), not “clever designed.” How something is designed is clever if it was designed *cleverly<a href=“in%20a%20clever%20way”>/i</a>.
<a href=“Contrasting%20with”>quote</a> (most other) fifteenth-century rulers, Portuguese kings (could count on) the support of the aristocracy ( in any) over seas ventures</p>
<p>Answer: A</p>
<p>Can you contrast with?
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“Contrasting with” should be “In contrast with” or “In contrast to.”</p>
<p>The original sentence implies that the “Portuguese kings” are doing the contrasting. For example, if you say, “Running down the street, the man got hit by a car,” you are saying that the man was running down the street and that he was doing so when he got hit by a car. Similarly, if you say, “Contrasting with…rulers, Portuguese kings could count on the support…,” you are saying that the Portuguese kings were contrasting with other people (which makes no sense) and that they would be doing so while being able to count on others’ support. You should say, “In contrast with…” or “In contrast to…”</p>
<p>INCORRECT: “Comparing X and Y, Y is better.”
INCORRECT: “Comparing to X, Y is better.”
CORRECT: “In comparison to X, Y is better.”
CORRECT: “Y is better than X.”
CORRECT: “Compared to X, Y is better.” (“Compared” is an adjective that describes “Y”–saying this, you are basically saying that Y is in the state of being compared to X. “Comparing” is also an adjective, but that would be implying that Y is DOING the comparing rather than BEING compared.)
“Also” modifies a verb (“I represent X; I also represent Y”). “In addition to” modifies basically a clause in the front and a gerund/noun in the back (“I do this in addition to doing that”). The correct sentence basically says, “Flags are used to represent A, B, and C in addition to representing D.” If you wanted to use also, you would have to say something like: “Flags are used to represent A, B, and C. They also represent D.” Both have pretty much the same meaning. It’s just a structure thing.
Not sure what you mean by this.</p>
<p>The captain standing on the bridge of the ship,
he had never seen such a strong wind in all his
years at sea. </p>
<p>(A) The captain standing on the bridge of the ship, he
(B) Standing on the bridge of the ship, the captain he
(C) Standing on the bridge of the ship, the captain
(D) To stand on the bridge of the ship, the captain
(E) The captain stood on the bridge of the ship, and he</p>
<p>Answer: (C). Why C?</p>
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“Standing…” modifies the subject of the following clause, which is “the captain.” This means that the captain is doing the standing. Here are examples of similar structures, and their meaning:
a) “Sleeping on the road at night, the homeless man got hit by a car.”
The homeless man was sleeping on the road at night. “Sleeping” acts as an adjective describing the man. It is used in the same sense as the “sleeping” in the phrase “the sleeping man”–it also acts as an adjective. But, since there are extra words (“. . . on the road at night”), you essentially have to start a participle phrase (“sleeping on the road at night”), which has to be followed by a comma. The participial phrase also implies that the action coincides with the action described by the following clause; in other words, the man was sleeping when he got hit by a car.</p>
<p>b) “Running to get to class, Robert tripped over a rock and fell.”</p>
<p>c) (taken from Wikipedia) “The dog, having been praised by its master, was happy.”
“Having been praised” is in the present perfect tense. This means that the event of the praise occurred in the past but the dog is still feeling the effects of the praise in the present. “I have studied” conveys the same idea; you studied in the past, but you are ready for the test because you still know in the present all the things you studied. You simply turn the “have” (“have studied,” “have been praised”) into “having” to form a participial phrase.</p>
<p>Look at A. “The captain standing on the bridge of the ship” is essentially a noun. It refers to the captain, which is modified by the adjectival “standing on the bridge of the ship.” You could say something like, “The captain standing on the bridge of the ship is such a ******bag!” But to say “the captain standing on the bridge,” stop, use a comma, and start another sentence/clause is nonsensical. It is essentially the same as saying “The captain, he had never seen…” (with the participle omitted).
B is ungrammatical in a similar way. It’s essentially repeating the subject for no reason. Either say just “the captain” or just “he” (given a proper antecedent).
D makes no sense. It utilizes the same structure, but “To stand” would imply purpose or technique–e.g., “To stand properly, stand with your back straight and your hands to your sides.” It is grammatical in itself, but makes no sense in this context.
E separates the two actions and delivers them separately. It is obviously not as effective because it does not convey the overlap (the two events are connected because the feeling of having never “seen such a strong wind” was felt while standing on the bridge of the ship).</p>
<p>Thanks! Got it.</p>
<p>With A(scarcely no) more than one in ten new drugs actually B(reaching) the testing stage, prescription drug developers face an uphill and costly climb to get C(their) new products D(to market).</p>
<p>Either Don or you (is) going to lead the class discussion on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Can anyone explain why this is correct? I thought it would be ‘are’ instead of ‘is’…</p>
<p>Either means, it’s Don OR you, so you use the singular form ‘is’ in this case</p>
<p>Ah I see. I thought it had to follow “you” because it was closer to the verb. Thanks! Sorry I can’t help with your question :(</p>
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Nope. This applies only when we are talking about the singularity/plurality of the noun or pronoun: Neither he nor they are ready. The verb has to be plural because the pronoun next to it is plural. Although you requires a plural verb (“you are”), the word itself is not plural, so we treat it as a singular form in the either…or construction. The same is the case when we use neither…nor.
“Scarcely no more than” makes no sense and is redundant. “Scarcely” means “barely”: “He barely made it on time; he scarcely made it on time.” “No more than” has a similar negative effect, so it’s illogical to use one with the other. You either say “scarcely one in ten new drugs,” “no more than one in ten new drugs,” or some variant, such as “approximately one in ten new drugs.” </p>
<p>The use of scarcely with another negative is considered incorrect: “I couldn’t scarcely/barely believe it” makes no sense.</p>
<p>Hey guys, here is one:</p>
<p>(Although only) two inches long, the shrew is a mammal and therefore a relative of elephants and giraffes.</p>
<p>a.although only
b.whereas only
c.despite a size
d.while its size is
e.since it is</p>
<p>Why is C incorrect? Thanks in advance.</p>