<p>The director's insistence that there be adequate stage lighting and professional installed backdrop in the theater was not obstinate but a determination to provide a sage work environment for the actors and stage crew.</p>
<p>a. was not obstinate but determined
b. resulted not from obstinacy but from a determination</p>
<p>why the answer is b but not a?</p>
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<p>The region bounded by the northwest corner of Greenland, the northern tip of Labrador, and the Mackenzie Delta include the islands collectively known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. </p>
<p>I am a little mixed up with sentence. Could you tell me what is the problem and how to correct it?</p>
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<p>Annual visitors to New York City's Central Park number almost ten times that of Mount Rushmore.</p>
<p>How to correct this sentence. Should I rewrite like "those to Mount Rushmore"?</p>
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<p>Syndication offered the advantages of shared news, features, and printing, each paper still maintaining contact with it local community through a small staff of employed there.</p>
<p>a. printing, and their papers still maintained
b. printing, while allowing each paper to maintain</p>
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<li><p>Because the subject of the sentence is “insistence.” The (director’s) insistence (that there be …) was not obstinate but determined doesn’t make sense, because insistence isn’t obstinate or determined, but the director himself may be. Choice B makes sense.</p></li>
<li><p>I’ll give you a hint: What is the subject of the sentence?</p></li>
<li><p>I’m not sure.</p></li>
<li><p>Choice A is wrong. “printing, and their papers still maintained…” Who is “their”?</p></li>
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<p>Syndication offered the advantages of shared news, features, and printing, each paper still maintaining contact with it local community through a small staff of employed there.</p>
<p>a. printing, and their papers still maintained
b. printing, while allowing each paper to maintain</p>
<p>Is “which allowing each paper to maintain” the object of “the advantages of”?</p>
<p>“shared news, features, and printing” is the object. As far as why b), look at the sentence holistically. Syndication offers shared, largescale features; syndication still allowed the maintanance of contact with a local community through a small staff. I think “while” better demonstrates this constrast than “and”.</p>