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<p>1.The Empire State Building, the Sears Tower, the Canadian National Tower—each (of these structures) (was) the (tallest) in the world at the time (they were) built.</p>

<p>What is the error. I put down "no error" but it's wrong. I know each is singular making "was" correct.</p>

<p>2.Most major air pollutants cannot be seen, although large amounts (of them) (concentrated in) cities (are visible) (as) smog.</p>

<p>Doesn't the error occur at C, since for comparison you need "as....as"?</p>

<p>3.The museum (is submitting) proposals (to several) foundations (in) the hope (to gain) funds to build a tropical butterfly conservatory. No error</p>

<p>I know the error is at D and the corrected form is "of gaining" but why?</p>

<ol>
<li>Intimacy, love, and marriage are three (different, if
interrelated, subjects).
(A) different, if interrelated, subjects
(B) interrelated subjects, being, however, different
(C) different subjects, whereas they are interrelated
(D) different subjects when interrelated
(E) subjects that are different although being
interrelated</li>
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<p>Why is the answer A and not D. I think D can also work here.</p>

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<li>answer is (they were)
it should be (it was) because each is singular</li>
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<p>yes but “these” was also used after “each” and saying “it was” wouldn’t make sense</p>

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<p>The only relevant clause here: “each of these structures was the tallest in the world at the time (they were) built.”</p>

<p>“of these structures” is grammatically irrelevant; it’s in the intervening prepositional phrase. “each” is the singular subject.</p>

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<p>There is no comparison here. The large amount of pollution manifests itself as smog; it’s not being compared to smog.</p>

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<p>It’s an idiom.</p>

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<p>^ I was just looking over this thread, but I don’t understand silverturtle’s explanation for the error in the question with “of these structures.”</p>

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<p>I commented on this one recently; see post #5 for an explanation: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/852396-sat-writing-almost-800-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/852396-sat-writing-almost-800-a.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The subject of a sentence is never in an intervening prepositional phrase, which are exampled below in italics (simple subject and simple predicate are in bold):</p>

<p>“One of the horses is tall.” </p>

<p>“Is each of you ready?”</p>

<p>“Neither of the guys is able to bring his llama to the party; it’s lame.” </p>

<p>The information in the intervening prepositional phrase has no grammatical effect on the rest of the sentence.</p>

<p>“each of these structures was the tallest in the world at the time it was built.” “each” is singular; there are no exceptions to this.</p>

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<p>Adding on to #2.</p>

<p>“as” introduces a phrase
“like” introduces a noun</p>

<p>“like” smog would be correct.</p>

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<p>for number one, “they were” should be “it was”, for the same reason silverturtle stated. At least I think that’s error in the sentence.</p>

<p>Edit: oh wait, yomikaze already explained it.</p>

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<p>Sweet, silverturtle linked my thread. I’m popular!</p>

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<p>@ silverturtle</p>

<p>Oh, but the error is “they were,” right? When I skimmed over the page, I thought you were saying that the phrase “of these structures” was the error in the sentence.</p>

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<p>I apologize if I was unclear or roundabout in my explanation: the error is indeed “there were” for the reasons stated above.</p>