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<li><p>By [incorporating] Pueblo figures into her [strongly geometric] and abstract [work is why] Pueblo artist Helen Hardin has had a significant [impact on] contemporary Native American art.</p></li>
<li><p>No one [but] a fool would [readily] lend money to a person who [is known] [to be] a frequent gambler.</p></li>
<li><p>[To those of us] who [had heard] the principal of the high school talk [about] the budget, the news of the staff cuts [was not] surprising.</p></li>
<li><p>This question is an improving paragraph one. Here are the first two lines...
(1) Many people believe that failure can be the source of success. (2) Although it may sound ludicrous to some, there is much truth to it, as those who have experienced such failures can attest.</p></li>
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<p>In context, which is the best version of the underlined?
Although it may sound ludicrous to some, there is much truth [to it], as those who have experienced such failures can attest.
a) same
b)to be told about it
c)from the source
d)to this sentiment
e)to be perceived</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Are the first three picking the wrong answer?</p>
<p>Yes, they are identifying sentence errors questions. They can be wrong or “no error.”</p>
<p>For the first question, " work is why" is already implied when you say “By incorporating…”. So the former statement is redundant. C is the answer</p>
<p>For the second question, “to be” should be “as”. Some one is known “as” a gambler, not known “to be” a gambler.</p>
<p>I see no error with the third quesiton.</p>
<p>For the last question, the answer is D because the “it” is ambiguous. However, logically, “it” refers to the idea that people believe failure is the source of success. This IDEA is a sentiment. So choice D elucidates upon the ambiguous referent of “it”</p>
<p>Thanks redivorys but…</p>
<h1>2, the answer isn’t D. I thought it should have been “known as” as well.</h1>
<h1>3, so I’m guessing “news” is a singular then? I was debating about that.</h1>
<h1>4, isn’t the antecedent of “it” obviously “failure can be the source of success”? I can’t think of anything else “it” can refer too. Therefore, it’s not ambiguous, and can’t the answer can be A? You’re correct because the answer is D but I don’t understand why since I don’t see how “it” is ambiguous.</h1>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<h1>3. News is singular. It’s one of those exceptions</h1>
<p>Wait for #2, either/or is acceptable. So “to be” works but i think “as” is a better substitute. Since there’s no OFFICIAL GRAMMATICAL ERROR about “to be”, there’s nothing wrong with it. Sorry about that. The answer is NO ERROR.</p>
<p>ANd yes NEWs is singular because some nouns take on a plural form but need a singular verb.</p>
<p>And for the last question, pronouns like “it” take on a noun referent. In other words, what the pronoun refers to has to be a noun. “failure can be the source of success” is a phrase, not a noun. But the SENTIMENT is a noun. The sentiment is what’s saying that “failure can be the source of success”</p>
<h1>1 [C]</h1>
<h1>2 no error</h1>
<p>Shouldn’t #3 be answer **, [had heard]. There no reason for had heard, it could just be heard and it would still make sense.</p>
<p>**Isn’t the rule for past perfect (AKA ‘had’), that it should only be used if there is another verb in the sentence in past tense?</p>
<p>^no 3 should be “had heard” because that implies something happened BEFORE SOMETHING ELSE. In context, the people HEARD the principal talk about budget BEFORE the NEWS OF THE STAFF CUTS CAME OUT. So “had heard” is a logical choice</p>
<p>GreedisGood–I never heard about that rule. But there is a presence of the phrase “was not surprising”. Of course this is not simple past tense but past progressive. Anyhow, it is in the past and would qualify the usage of “had heard”</p>
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<p>Yeah that’s the case.<br>
To those of us who ** had heard ** the principal of the high school talk about the budget, the news of the staff cuts was not surprising. </p>
<p>The past tense is bolded, I guess you missed it :D</p>