<p>Here are the BB1s correct answers for writing that I do not understand... Please explain.</p>
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<li><p>The programmers always talked of having too much to do, but in truth they had a lesser amount of work to do than their colleagues.
E. they had less work to do than
Isn't this an illogical comparison?</p></li>
<li><p>In the wild, pygmy chimpanzees are found only in an inaccessible region south of the Zaire River, since such is the case, very few are in captivity.
E. and so no more than a few are in captivity.
'And so' is idiomatic? Why not just 'so'?</p></li>
<li><p>The department of transportation has introduced pictorial traffic signs because drivers can react to them more quickly than to verbal ones.
This is a corrected sentence? Isn't 'than to verbal ones' an illogical comparison?</p></li>
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<li><p>Where’s the illogical comparison? They had less work to do than their colleagues (had). Colleagues is not used as an object.</p></li>
<li><p>Just “so” works too, but E is not incorrect.</p></li>
<li><p>The sentence is correct. It says that drivers can react to pictorial traffic signs more quickly than they can react to verbal traffic signs, which makes sense.</p></li>
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<li><p>The programmers always talked of having too much to do, but in truth they had a lesser amount of work to do than their colleagues. I would think it should have a did at the end or something. I don’t know… and shouldn’t 19 be '</p></li>
<li><p>says The department of transportation has introduced pictorial traffic signs because drivers can react to them more quickly than to verbal ones. I think it should be what you said, but that is not what it says…</p></li>
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<li>“lesser amount of work” is wordy and awkward. “less work” is a much cleaner way of saying the same thing. This isn’t an illogical comparison. The sentence is</li>
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<p>The programmers always talked of having too much to do, but in truth they had less work to do than their colleagues [had].</p>
<p>The “had” at the end isn’t in the sentence but it’s implied. Hopefully that clears up your confusion.</p>
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<li>Just because you can think of another way to word the answer doesn’t mean it’s wrong. </li>
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<p>In the wild, pygmy chimpanzees are found only in an inaccessible region south of the Zaire River, and so no more than a few are in captivity.</p>
<p>In the wild, pygmy chimpanzees are found only in an inaccessible region south of the Zaire River, so no more than a few are in captivity.</p>
<p>Both I believe are correct, but the second sentence wasn’t an answer choice.</p>
<p>The department of transportation has introduced pictorial traffic signs because drivers can react to them more quickly than [they can react] to verbal ones.</p>
<p>Because it says “‘to’ verbal ones,” it’s implied that they mean “react to.”</p>
<p>Another example: “It rained more on Wednesday than on Friday.”
That sentence is correct. You do not need to say, “It rained more on Wednesday than it rained on Friday.” But, the sentence “It rained more on Wednesday than Friday” is incorrect. You need to have “on Friday” so that you know that Friday is an object, just as Wednesday is–that is, Wednesday is compared to Friday.</p>