So TRICKY and ANNOYING writing questions

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<p>1) The villagers found the visitors [equally as fascinating as their customs were] mystifying.
B. equally fascinating and their customs </p>

<h2>D. as fascinating as their customs were</h2>

<p>I chose B for parallelism but the word "equally" seems weird. The correct answer is D. I think choice D is a run-on sentence, isn't it???</p>

<p>2) [In some places the sea is unusually rich in nutrients, tiny plants multiply there], turning the water green.
A. In some places the sea is unusually rich in nutrients, tiny plants multiply there</p>

<h2>B. Where the sea is unusually rich in nutrients, tiny plants multiply</h2>

<p>Actually I see the two choices not very good. The correct answer is B. Can you guys explain this for me? </p>

<h2>3)This biography, with [its myriad] quotations from unnamed sources, [is] as blatant [an example] of character assassination [of any] I have ever seen. [No error]. </h2>

<p>I made the correct answer: D. Should it be "as that of any", right?</p>

<h2>4) [Prior to] the election of Henry Cisneros [as mayor] of San Antonio in 1981, no major city in the US [had had] a mayor from [Mexican descent]. [No error]. </h2>

<p>The correct answer is D. What should it be???</p>

<p>Thank all you guys :)</p>

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<p>1) The villagers found the visitors as fascinating as their customs were mystifying. That sounds right to me - no run-on anywhere. </p>

<p>2)A IS a run-on - a new sentence starts after the first comma.</p>

<p>B -Where the sea is unusually rich in nutrients, tiny plants multiply, turning the water green. I don’t see any problems there.</p>

<p>3) I would say, “as any I have ever seen.” You’re talking about the example.</p>

<p>4) I would say “of Mexican descent.” So you’d have to find a phrase that makes sense with “from.” You’re not FROM a descent.</p>

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<p>quite straightforward actually…can’t be portrayed as tricky questions at all</p>

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<p>For #1 consider the function of the two “as’s” carefully. Though the sentence seems to pan out the -AS ____ AS- template, as in “AS cool AS a cucumber,” each “as” actually functions differently. You can replace the first “as” with a comma and still retain the grammatical and semantic accuracy of the sentence while removing the equivocalness. See if the sentence makes sense to you now, “The villagers found the visitors fascinating, as their customs were mystifying.”</p>

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<p>for #3, you’re right for the reason you provided :)</p>

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<p>Apart from the main reason that D (for 1) is correct observe that “equally” is redundant since “as” already implies equally. So if you’re unsure about choice D you can definitely eliminate B and still get to the right answer.</p>

<p>The paired conjunctions “as … as” as already noted above are correlative conjunctions.</p>

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<p>I don’t fully understand the function of the two “as”??? It’s not kind of “as cool as a cucumber” like crouch88 said. Maybe the second “as” serves the function of “because”, a kind of correlative conjunctions as fogcity stated. So what about the first “as”???
Aaaaaaaa, so confusingggggggggg!!!
However, thank all you guysssssss</p>

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<p>As…as means the two things are similar.</p>

<p>He is as fat as a pig = his degree of fatness is similar to a pig’s degree of fatness. There’s no “because” of any kind.</p>

<p>The example is a little trickier because it’s comparing a similarity in two otherwise dissimilar things. Like so:</p>

<p>Derek Rose is as fast as Dwight Howard is strong.</p>

<p>In other words, Derek Rose’s speed is similar in degree or intensity to Dwight Howard’s strength.</p>

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<p>Oh, I got itttttttttttttttttt
Thank your so muchhhhhhhh</p>