<p>Here are a few more writing questions.</p>
<p>"My grandson thinks that he can cook better than any other person at the fair; and he) has the blue ribbons to prove it.
B) My grandson thinks he can cook better than any other person at the fair, and he
E) Thinking he can cook better than any other person at the fair, my grandson</p>
<p>B looks good to me because it has the correct usage of a comma, connected by the correct conjunction "and". The clause following "and" is independent, which is how it's supposed to be as well.
E, also looks good because the implied subject is "my grandson" , which is correct, modified by the dangling participle "thinking". </p>
<p>I would say B, how about you? BTW, i don't have the answer key. </p>
<p>The Portugues musical tradition known as fado, or "fate", has been called the Portuguese blues because (of their songs that bemoan someone's) misfortune, especially the loss of romantic love.
A) of their songs that bemoan someone's
B) of their songs bemoaning their
C) its songs bemoan
D) the songs that bemoaned
E) of how it bemoans their
I think the answer is C but A sounds plausible as well. im just looking for confimation. Is it C to you? ID have the answer answer key, to this or any other following question (s). </p>
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<li><p>Jean Toomer was (not only) the author of Cane, a novel whose publication (has been viewed) (as marking) the begiinning of the Harlem Renaissance, but also a respected advisor (among Quakers). No error.
I would say No error. Anyone else agree?</p></li>
<li><p>The book (is essentially) a detailed and (very well documented) record (of what) happened to (each of) the protestors. No error
I would say B, because the structures are not parallel before and after the "and"
Can anyone else confirm?</p></li>
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<p>1) B is correct because the “it” in E is not defined; the participle phrase “Thinking…” acts like an adjective to describe what the subject is doing. You can’t say “The hungry man stopped being it” because “hungry” is solely used to modify “man.” Dividing the two ideas in the question with “and” is correct
2) C is correct because the songs belong to the tradition, not the “blues.” Also, the songs bemoan misfortune, not a specific someone’s misfortune. The lack of “someone” in “especially the loss of romantic love” seems to be the key to this fact
3) C is correct because “marking” is in present tense, although B seems suspicious
4) B is incorrect because “detailed and…documented record” is just as grammatically correct as “strong and able leader.” E is the answer</p>
<p>I am not feeling confident about this (I haven’t taken a practice test in a while) so you should just consider my responses for now</p>
<p>^#3, why does it matter if marking is in present tense?</p>
<p>i honestly do not know what the correct answer to that question is now that i think about it. there has to be an answer key somewhere</p>
<p>Question 18 looks fine to me.</p>
<p>Edit: (That is, I agree that there is no error.)</p>
<p>For the last question that i posted to which Crazybandit replied, i still don’t understand the explanation. When i said parallel structure, i meant parallelism in the usage of the type of word.
In this scenario, “a detailed and very well documented…” is not parallel because before the “and” you have the word “detailed” which is used an adjective in this case and the after the word “and” you have “very well documented” which is the adverb “very” modifying the adjective “well documented”. Therefore, you have an adjective before the “and” and after “and” you have an adverb modifying an adjective, which is unparallel. …Or am i just overthinking it?</p>
<p>Fresh101 is too captious this time. As long as words in the main stream belong to one same category, they are still parallel.
I came across a similar question this morning. I will post it on here later.</p>
<p>Yeah, you’re overthinking it. There are two adjectives in parallel describing the book. It’s perfectly acceptable to modify one, but not the other, with an adverb.</p>
<p>Oh ok. I get it. Thx for the replies.</p>