<p>I just cannot get theses. Please dust of your blue books and help me out!</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>critical reading</p>
<p>page 799 number 13
page 800 number 15
page 802 number 23</p>
<p>writing</p>
<p>page 782 number 17</p>
<p>The Red Cross workers had not expected the (refugees from) the flooded plain (to be) as desperate and as undernourished (as those) whom they (had seen) earlier in the week. (No error)</p>
<p>.... I thought it was (as those)</p>
<p>page 783 number 24</p>
<p>Far (away from) having been a diehard conservative, (Hoover was), some scholars (now contend), the leading progressive (of his day). (No error).</p>
<p>.... I thought this one had no mistakes</p>
<p>page 813 number 6</p>
<p>Beginning photographers may choose from among several camera types, (there is one which is) best for their particular interests.</p>
<p>A. there is one which is
B of which there is one
C. one of which is
D. and one is
E. one is</p>
<p>..... I can't choose between B and C</p>
<p>ok without the blue book in front of me, i think for writing anyway</p>
<ol>
<li>no error</li>
<li>choice a because it is unidiomatic to say far away from; it is just far from</li>
<li>one of which so C be the answer cause B creates awakwardness and is not as concise as C. when u get it down to two choices, choose that one that expresses the idea with more succinctness and clarity.</li>
</ol>
<p>OP, why did you think it was "as those"? Give me more info and I'll try to help you out.</p>
<p>Briefly, "those" is fine because it can refer to "refugees": the sentence means </p>
<p>"The Red Cross workers had not expected the (refugees from) the flooded plain (to be) as desperate and as undernourished as <em>the refugees</em> whom they (had seen) earlier in the week. (No error)"</p>
<p>Guptasaintx is exactly right about your next question: the idiom is "far from," not "far away from." "Far from" is an expression meaning "not at all"; "far away from" just means "physically distant from."</p>
<p>I'll try to hit your third question tomorrow or Mon.: it requires a little bit more thought than the other two, and I have to go to bed right now.</p>
<p>I thought it was "those" because it seemed to me that those did not have a clear antecedent.</p>
<p>Well, the sentence is potentially confusing, I agree, but it does follow the rules of good grammar and usage.</p>
<p>The principle at work here is a simple one, and you probably already know it: to find the antecedent of a pronoun, you first ask yourself, "Hmm, is this singular or plural?" Then you read backwards looking for the first noun that matches the number of the pronoun.</p>
<p>In this case, the pronoun "those" is obviously plural. If you read backwards, the first plural noun you come across is "refugees." Plug the word "refugees" into the second part of the sentence (in place of "those") and you find that the sentence makes sense:</p>
<p>"The Red Cross workers had not expected the refugees from the flooded plain to be as desperate and as undernourished as the refugees whom they had seen earlier in the week."</p>
<p>It all checks out; no error.</p>