Writing. again

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<li>The reason for (dramatically raising) fines for litering (is that) many pet owners would simply decide (to pay for it) (rather than) pick up their pet's waste.</li>
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<p>I understand that it doesn't agree with fines and should be something like "them". But is that correct? don't you need something like for in between? like "to pay for them" or is "to pay them" grammatically correct?</p>

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<li>Rent, a musical by composer Jonathan larson in 1996, was created by using much of the storyline and characters from la boheme.</li>
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<p>The correct choicfe was e. Composer jonathan created the musical Rent in 1996 using much of the storyline and many of the characters from La Boheme...</p>

<p>WHY!?</p>

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<li><p>You pay a fine, you don’t pay for a fine. (But there was an antecedent problem anyway, so you didn’t need to know the expression.)</p></li>
<li><p>The revision is much cleaner than the original, it’s phrased in the active voice, and it fixes the ambiguous “a musical by Johnathan Larson in 1966” (the musical only existed in 1966? No, the musical was written in 1966) and the awkward “created by using.”</p></li>
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<li><p>antecedent problem? shouldn’t it be subject verb agreement ? since it is fines and not just fine.</p></li>
<li><p>and the reasons you stated were not the one that my book gave… i would like to hear input from others as well before i make judgement.</p></li>
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<p>To respond to your questions (and not to be defensive or imply that you shouldn’t seek more input):</p>

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<li><p>Yes, the antecedent (“fines”) for the pronoun (“it”) is plural, so the pronoun should be plural (“them”).</p></li>
<li><p>Did the book object to “much of the…characters” (number disagreement)? I missed that earlier.</p></li>
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<p>haha correct daisie… they said much is noncount and many is count … so i wanna hear what others have to say about this</p>

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<p>YET ANOTHER:</p>

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<li>When the students take a trip on the intracoastal waterway system next month, they will learn (facts with which they have hertofore been unacquainted). </li>
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<p>Answer is As is… i chose B. “facts with which they haven’t been acquanited with yet.”
WTH does heretofore mean…</p>