<p>Attention!!!!
These question are taken from the Collegeboard's official Stidy guide.</p>
<p>Paradoxically, one way that Shakespeare transcended his era was BECAUSE OF HAVING INCLUDED IT in his plays.</p>
<p>A because of having included it
B when he included it
C trough his including of it
D by its inclusion of it
E by including it</p>
<p>Just when THOSE(a) whow were wathing from the sidelinese feared THE WORST(b), the athletes THEMSELVES (c) ARE (d) the most confident.
NO ERROR (e) </p>
<p>And is this correct---><br>
--> attaining <--- speeds of up to 60 miles per hour,.........</p>
<p>by including it
makes the sentence simple concise terse and right to the point</p>
<p>the answer for the second question is were
need parallelism, were......were.....
hope this helped</p>
<p>And what about the third is that correct "attaining" speeds of...</p>
<p>Another one:
Far AWAY FROM (a) having been a diehard conservative, HOOVER WAS(b), some scholars NOW CONTEND(c), the leading progressive OF HIS DAY(d).</p>
<p>It is (a), I think, because the correct phrase is "far from being...", not "far away from being..."</p>
<p>I am almost certain that the use of "attaining" in the first set of questions was correct. I second DesiBoi's answer to the next question. You can only use "far away" when you are discussing actual physical distance.</p>