Some Writing Questions

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<p>These are from past psat's. I just need some clarification as to why the answer are right.</p>

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<li>Japan's climate is (similar to the northeastern coast) of the United States.</li>
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<p>A. similar to the northeastern coast
B. similar to the northeastern coast's climate
C. similar to that of the northeastern coast
D. like the northeastern coast
E. like being on the northeastern coast</p>

<p>This is one is deffinately a faulty comparision error. Except this one had a slight twist in it that got me. </p>

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<li>The changes in the employee's benefit plan, especially the increase in the insurance fees, (has angered the workers and threatened) a general strike.</li>
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<p>A. has angered the workers and threatened
B. have so angered the workers that they have threatened
C. have angered the workers, threatening
D. has caused such anger among the workers that they have threatened
E. have angered the workers to threaten</p>

<p>I got this one right but I need clarification as to why the other close one's are wrong.</p>

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<li>The incidence (of error) in the recent census (performed by) the federal government (were) small (even by) modern standards. (no error)</li>
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<p>Ok this one I narrowed it down to two but I was confused after that because I thought there could be two possible changes and then overthought it.</p>

<p>So give them a shot and hopefully you can explain the right answer.</p>

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<li>(C) Consider if the sentence was written like this: “The climate of Japan is similar to the climate of the northeastern coast of the United States.” You can replace the second “the climate” with the demonstrative pronoun “that.” The sentence becomes: “The climate of Japan is similar to that of the climate of the northeastern coast of the United States,” which is the same thing as (C) plugged in.</li>
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<p>The basic structure of this is “The incidence (were) small” if we omit all the extra stuff. Clearly, this is wrong, and the were should be was. (C)</p>