<p>Like his other cookbooks, in his new book Chef Louis offers lengthy explanations of what... he considers...to be basic cooking principles. No error</p>
<p>The answer is "Like his other cookbooks". Why?</p>
<p>Long thought of as... a quiet, stuffy place where people just borrowed books, libraries have been changing their images dramatically over the last few years. No error</p>
<p>The error here is "A quiet, stuffy place". I know it should be a "quiet AND stuffy" place, but why exactly is the first one wrong? When is it right to use these terms?</p>
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<li><p>There is an error in (A) because he doesnt offer lengthy... like his other cookbooks. He offers the explanations IN his other cookbooks (parralellism). </p></li>
<li><p>Reword it to hear the error immediately. The place was quiet, stuffy. That makes 0 sense. The place was quiet AND stuffy sounds better.</p></li>
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<p>"Long thought of as... a quiet, stuffy place where people just borrowed books, libraries have been changing their images dramatically over the last few years." </p>
<p>Libraries is plural so "a quiet stuffy place" should reflect the plural form.
Maybe "quiet and stuffy places" is correct?</p>
<p>When answering questions on the writing section, remember to identify the indispensable (<--- hehe the word I am trying to memorize) information, like the subject and what adjective it's describing, or the verb and what adverb is describing it. Writing is just practice.</p>
<p>no, it's fine to leave it as a "quiet, stuffy place"</p>
<p>you may think it's wrong, but you have to read it correctly. Longly thought of as a quiet, stuffy place.....
Lose the monotone and try thinking about it...you use this in everyday language and you are correct when you use it because it is acceptable. "He is a big, ugly man". Not, "He is a big and an ugly man".
It means that the ugly man is big. If you say "She is a cute, hot girl," it means she is a hot girl that is cute.
it's NOT a comma splice.</p>
<p>The reason that THIS case is wrong is because libraries is plural. it should be "....thought of as quiet, stuffy places"</p>
<p>both of these issues (parallel prepositional phrases and number agreement) come up all the time on the writing test. you should be looking out for them on every question that involves prepositions and nouns (which is gonna be just about all of them :) ).</p>