<p>Seriously, is it me or is the Online course questions in a different style from normal QASs? anyhow here are questions:</p>
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<li><p>Many of blues great Bessie Smith's songs describe the experiences of black imigrants especially (the struggles of Black women to adjust to urban life in the northern U.S)
I chose "how black women struggled at adjusting". Correct answer is A. WHY!?</p></li>
<li><p>The united states is the world's largest (producer of) cranberries and cranberry products, (most) of which (is consumed) there (and in) Canada.
Answer is C...WHY!?</p></li>
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<p>24.Almost all animals (that hibernate) prepare for (it) during summer (by eating) large amounts of food, (which they convert) to thick layers of fat.
Why? isn't it referring to hibernate?</p>
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<li>(By) the early 1920's, Louis Armstrong recorded (his first) solos as a member of King oliver's Creole Jazz Band in (such pieces as) "CB" and "T", (which) he composed with pianist Lil Hardin.
Answer is A but why? i thought it was C.</li>
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<li>incorrect idiom, its struggle with adjustment or struggle to adjust. Also, the first statement is better because the experiences are correctly modified by a noun-struggles.</li>
<li>Most is plural here, because its antecedent is products.</li>
<li>it should be doing so or something. It cannot refer to a verb.</li>
<li>By, followed by a past date, signifies past perfect. Thus, it cannot be correct as the verb is recorded, which is past tense.</li>
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<li>Pilots at the airline, angered at the prospect of seeing their pension plans replaced with less generous versions vowed to used legal means to fight (it).
a.it
b.them
c.this
d.such a move
e.that from happening
Why is it D? i played it by ear and thought it sounded better…</li>
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<p>It is unclear, while such a move is clearly referring to the “pension plans replaced”. I was going to say that it cannot refer to verbs, but that isn’t the case here.</p>
“how Black women struggled” refers to the way in which Black women struggled. It doesn’t refer to the struggles themselves. The struggles are experiences. So Bessie Smith’s songs describe the experiences of Black immigrants, especially the struggles. . . . A struggle is an experience; “how Black women struggled” is not an experience itself.
“which” represents “cranberries and cranberry products,” which is plural. So “most of which” basically represents “most cranberries and cranberry products,” which is plural. Most cranberries are processed. A lot of people exist in the world. Many cows are killed everyday.
because “hibernate” isn’t a noun, a “thing.” The sentence would be correct if it read something like this: “Almost all animals that go into hibernation prepare for it. . . .”
A is wrong because “by” signals a past perfect tense. Louis Armstrong was born in 1901. By the early 1920’s, he had recorded his first solos. This implies that he recorded his first solos some time between or during 1901 and the early 1920’s. The past perfect tense denotes a progression in time that matches the word “by.” But since the sentence is in the simple past (simply “recorded”), the sentence is just talking about the event of recording, and when it occurred, as opposed to the time by which it occurred. He recorded them in the early 1920’s. (Or "he had recorded them by the early 1920’s.) So “by” should be “in.” I really hope that made sense. Just look up the terms past perfect, *simple present<a href=“or%20%5Bi%5Dpast%5B/i%5D”>/i</a>, and present perfect. Here is an example of each of the three, including a signal word just like “by”:
Present perfect: I have eaten a lot since Christmas Eve.
Past perfect: I had learned how to walk by the age of six.
Simple past: I learned how to walk at the age of six.
C, “such pieces as X and Y,” where X and Y are examples of “pieces,” has a commonly used construction. It can be rewritten as “pieces such as X and Y” or “pieces like X and Y.”
“it” can’t refer to “prospect” because the pilots aren’t angry at the direction that the situation is headed; they are angry at the move of replacing the pilots’ pension plans with less generous versions. They are angry at this replacement. This “move” isn’t solidified in the sentence as a noun, so you can’t use a pronoun like “it” or “them”. The pilots aren’t mad at the pension plans. They are mad at what people are doing to their pension plans.</p>
<p>Sorry for reiterating some stuff that gertrudetrumpet already explained.</p>
haha. many thanks once again.</p>