Smart people, please help! sat writing pratice

<p>I'm stuck on these practice questions and my review book gives bad explanations, but I lost the answer sheet please help answer them, preferably with an explanation: (I'M USING "||"TO REPRESENT THE UNDERLINED PART!)</p>

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<li>|By teachers allowing students to have more independence|, the more self disciplined the students must be.</li>
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<p>a. By teachers allowing students to have more independence
b. Because teachers allow students to have more independence
c. The more independence teachers allow students to have
d. When allowed by teachers to have more independence
e. If students are allowed more independence by teachers</p>

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<li>Early journalists in England and pamphleteers and patriots in colonial America |discovered quick the power of a well-crafted and provocative essay.|</li>
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<p>a. discovered quick the power of a well-crafted and provocative essay
b. discovering quickly the power of a well-crafted and provocative essay
c. had discovered quick how powerful a well-crafted and provocative essay was
d. discovering quickly that a well-crafted and provocative essay was powerful
e. discovered quickly the power of a well-crafted and provocative essay</p>

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<li> When attacked by a predator the sea cucumber sheds its sticky, glowing skin, |which remains on the predator and continues to glow, exposing| the predator to attack.</li>
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<p>a. which remains on the predator and continues to glow, exposing
b. which remains on the predator and, continuing to glow, exposing
c. which remains on the predator, continues to glow, exposing
d. which, having remained on the predator and continued to glow, exposes
e. which is remaining on the predator, it continues to glow and exposes</p>

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<li>The development of popular music has not received much attention |from musicologists, they have focused their efforts on tracing the history of classical music.|</li>
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<p>a. from musicologists, they have focused their efforts their efforts on tracing
b. by musicologists, who have focused their efforts to trace
c. from musicologists, but have focused their efforts to trace
d. by musicologists, whose efforts have been focused toward tracing
e. From musicologists, who have focused their efforts on tracing</p>

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<li>A team of meteorologists built a special video camera to observe the interiors of storm clouds, but attempts |of deploying the device had been| unsuccessful.</li>
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<p>a. of deploying the device had been
b. of deploying the device have been
c. at deploying the device was
d. to deploy the device was
e. to deploy the device have been</p>

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<li>|The medieval German nun Hrosvitha, the first known female playwright is often studied, but| the plays she wrote are seldom produced today.</li>
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<p>a. The medieval German nun Hrosvitha, the first known female playwright is often studied, but
b. Having often been studied, the medieval German nun Hrosvitha is the first known female playwright, but
c. The medieval German nun Hrosvitha is often studied as the first known female playwright, but with
d. Hrosvitha, the medieval German nun who is often studied as the first female playwright,
e. A medieval German nun, Hrosvitha, the first known female playwright is often studied.</p>

<p>please help</p>