Some W Questions

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<li><p>So tenacious is heir grip on life, that sponge cells will regroup and form a new sponge even when they are squeezed through silk.
A. when they are squeezed
B. after they have been</p></li>
<li><p>Many an immigrant wishes to return to his land and abide in the familiar environment in which he was raised. No error</p></li>
<li><p>Confronted with a choice of either cleaning up his room or cleaning out the garage, the teenager became very aggravated with his parents. No error</p></li>
<li><p>The credit for making Kafka internationally famous as a writer belongs to his friend, novelist Max Brod, which despite Kafka's dying wishes, edited Kafka's unpublished manuscripts and then had them published. No error</p></li>
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<p>Issues:
The correct answers are B, E, D, B.
1. What is the difference between the two choices? They both seem correct.
2. Isn't "abide by" an idiom?
3. What is the proper idiom for aggravated __?
4. Isn't choice C the best?</p>

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<p>1) the sponge does this after the event, not during it. “when” implies that the action occurs during the other action
2) yea it’s an idiom. “abide” is a verb. so it is being used as a verb meaning “dwell” and not as an idiom.
3) “aggravated by”. it is not an idiom. idioms are expressions that are commonly used. many idioms do not make grammatical sense but are acceptable because they have found commonplace in English. this case’s resolve lies in using the proper preposition. “by” precedes the object that causes the aggravation. “with” attaches the object that is joining in the aggravation.
4) i dont know</p>

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<p>Are you sure question four’s answer is (B)?</p>

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<li><p>agree with crazybandit, they regroup after the action is done</p></li>
<li><p>that sounds right</p></li>
<li><p>you can’t become aggravated with anything, you get aggravated by something, agree</p></li>
<li><p>Yeah, it’s definitely C, “which” should be “who”</p></li>
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