<p>Far away from having been a diehard conservative, Hoover was, some scholars now contend, the leading progressive of the his day.</p>
<p>Explanation of the answer please >.> this one really confused me, probably some silly grammatical rule behind it too.</p>
<p>i guess i am going to go with “far away from” should be far from.</p>
<p>of the his day.
??</p>
<p>I’m going to assume “of the his day” is a typo on your part?</p>
<p>I think this is just idiomatic; the phrase is “far from.” “Far away from” implies an actual distance, at least to me.</p>
<p>but God what a terrible sentence!</p>
<p>it’s hard to find a sentence error when the OP added errors of his own lol</p>