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<p>So i have a few writing questions:</p>

<p>At graduation, the speaker assured us that our many courses in the liberal arts [had prepared us equally well for the challenges of working and further study].
a) -repeat-
b) had prepared us equally well for the challenges of work and of further study
c) has supplied the preparation for challenging work along with further study
d) leaves us prepared for the challenges of work and further study both
e) were the preparation for making the challenges of work or further study easier.</p>

<p>so... I immediately crossed out c and d. And I thought either a or b was right or e was right. So my question for this one (answer is b) is why the second "of" is needed (in general, in which sentences is the second of needed, and in which is it not ie. the house consists of rock and clay). Also whats wrong with choice e?</p>

<p>I also have a few questions I hope people can explain to me</p>

<p>[like his other] cookbooks, in his new book chef louis offers lengthy explanations [of what] [he considers] [to be] basic cooking principles. (Answer is A)</p>

<p>[in] swimming [as to] soccer, evangelina proved time after time to be [an abler] competitor [than] juanita. (Answer B)</p>

<p>For this, I knew that 'as to' was like.. misc.. but I thought [than] should be [than was/is], so i simply thought that 'as to' was some phrase i didn't know of. WHat is [than] not [than was/is]?</p>

<p>Pilots at the airline, angered at the prospect of seeing their pension plans replaced with less generous versions, vowed to use legal means to fight [it].
a) -repeat-
b) them
c) this
d) such a move
e) that from happening.
(Answer D -- why not c or e?)</p>

<p>ALmost all animals [that hibernate] prepare for [it] during summer [by eating] large amounts of food, [which they convert] to thick layers of fat.
(B)</p>

<p>If you [can acquire] the necessary calories [by drinking] gasoline instead of by eating food, [you] would be able [to run] 26 miles on about one-twelfth of a gallon of gas.
(A)</p>

<p>ALright thats enough :)
anyone who can explain the answers of any of them please feel free to respond!</p>

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<li><p>This is a sentence with poor parallelism. Get used to spotting them; the SAT loves to throw them at you. Since "working" and "further study" are the object of the same preposition, they need to be in the same form. "Working" is a gerund while "further study" is just a regular noun, so you either need to change "working" to "work" so it matches "study" or change "study" to "studying" so it matches "working." That's why A is wrong. B and E both address this problem, but E is unnecessarily clunky, using three verbs (were, preparation, and making) where the meaning can easily be conveyed with just one (had prepared, choice B). In choice B, I don't think the second "of" at the end is necessary, but it doesn't make it wrong.</p></li>
<li><p>An antecedent phrase such as "like his other cookbooks" always refers to the nearest noun. "New book" doesn't count because it's part of a prepositional phrase, so "like his other cookbooks" is technically being compared to chef Louis, while the intent is to compare it to his new book. This could be fixed by using the phrase "Like he does IN his other cookbooks" - in this case, you'd be comparing one prepositional phrase with another, so it's OK.</p></li>
<li><p>"Than" alone is actually OK here. You can think of the phrase "proved to be" as being "distributed" to both nouns. The sentence is really saying "Evangelina proved to be abler than Juanita proved to be," with the second "proved to be" being dropped out because the meaning is understood.</p></li>
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<p>If no one else helps, I'll explain the others later. Hope this helps.</p>