<p>Why is the first one not B but E? I don't understand when it should or should not use therefore or other similar transitional statements.</p>
<p>For the second one, now that I look at it it is pretty obviously that its B but I chose A because sometimes the reason a choice is wrong is because its not specific enough. Can someone just explain this to me in your own terms? Is the "is reason why" really unnecessary or implied?</p>
<p>1]a person–>they (it’s wrong) you ruled out A,B,and C
D is wordly and doesn’t respect parallelism where people are the subject
E sounds better here</p>
<p>2]D is out since the stucture’s weird “with…so…”
A and E are wordly “the reason that, the fact …”
C is out I don’t remember the name but there should be a comma or sth like that otherwise these two sentences are unlinked.
B sounds better</p>
<p>From an international, thank you because I learn this idioms “all but” which sounded weird at the beginning so I took a look at the dictionnary. but the reasoning seemed obvious to me as soon as I grasped the meaning of this “all but”
best of luck to you</p>
<p>The first clause beginning with “Because…” is a subordinate clause acting as an adverb telling ‘why’. (Subordinate clauses beginning with ‘because’ are almost always adverbs telling why.) Unfortunately for the sentence, the opening clause must be a noun acting as the subject of the sentence : (This) is why the American film industry rose to prominence. Choice E provides a subject (fact) modified by an adjective clause (‘that the European film industry all but…’) to serve the function of the word ‘(This)’ in the structure of the given sentence.</p>
<p>I disagree with Wood5440’s explanation. Subordinate clauses are not adverbs.</p>
<p>Here’s how I would explain question #2:</p>
<p>Choice (A): “Because…is the reason why” is redundant. “…is the reason why…” is an extremely awkward sentence construction.
Choice (B): correct answer. “Because” begins the subordinate clause, and the second part of the sentence correctly functions as the primary clause.
Choice (C): comma splice. A lone comma cannot be used to join two independent clauses.
Choice (D): Both “With” and “so” mark the beginning of subordinate clauses. Since the sentence lacks a primary clause, this answer choice is grammatically incorrect.
Choice (E): “The fact that…” and “…is why…” (particularly when combined) are suboptimal sentence constructions.</p>
<p>I see your points. I didn’t catch that “is why” is still part of the underlined portion of the error. In the words of Maxwell Smart: “Sorry about that.”</p>
at the beginning so I took a look at the dictionnary. but the reasoning seemed obvious to me as soon as I grasped the meaning of this “all but”