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<li>Many americans are passionate about preserving natural resources which makes it a fierce politcal debate</li>
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<p>Answer is E, a situation that makes for fierce political debate. </p>
<p>I chose "which makes it a fierce political debate." Why am i wrong?</p>
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<li>The anasazi indians settled in the southwest in the first century but,perhaps because of the gradual drying of the climate, eventually abandoned their settlements</li>
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<p>I chose E which was century, however, their settlements were eventually abandoned,perhaps because of the gradual drying of the climate. The correct answer is A,(as written).</p>
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<li>Facin overwhelming odds at Yorktown, Cornwallis naturally tried to avoid being trapped but it failed</li>
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<p>Why is it D?</p>
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<li>The ancient manuscript was a valuable find, even though the writing was difficult to decipher and the paper had begun to disintegrate.</li>
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<p>Why E?</p>
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<li><p>Role models can motivate us if they are people whoseachievements we findrealistically attainable; in addition, comparing ourselves to super achievers may have the opposite effect. Answe is C.... WHY!?</p></li>
<li><p>IN the eighteen century a simple method of musical notation helped to makemusic more popular than in any century.</p></li>
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<p>I put D but is it because you need to have Other in there? When do you know to put other or not to put other?</p>
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<li>A hypochondriac is when you have a tendency to complain about ailments that are largely imagined.</li>
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<p>I put A but whats the reason behind it? is it due to the fact that you should not be used to reference hypochondriac but should rather be replaced with a person? explain please</p>
<p>LOL Did not see your underlining sorry. So I found the errors without the underling yay!</p>
<p>Writing Questions
19. Many americans are passionate about preserving natural resources which makes it a fierce politcal debate</p>
<p>Answer is E, a situation that makes for fierce political debate. </p>
<p>I chose “which makes it a fierce political debate.” Why am i wrong?</p>
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<p>Okay, which makes it, isn’t that really broad. The previous parts just state something without really having a subject. What is it? Also when you read the choices what was wrong with a situation. Notice that there is no subject in the first part of 19. This choice gives us the subject. a situation that (describes…) plus it sounds right.</p>
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<li>The anasazi indians settled in the southwest in the first century but,perhaps because of the gradual drying of the climate, eventually abandoned their settlements</li>
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<p>I chose E which was century, however, their settlements were eventually abandoned,perhaps because of the gradual drying of the climate. The correct answer is A,(as written).</p>
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However implies a total switch of things like. I got 10 problems right, however, 12 were wrong. Also. take out the part in the middle (in between the commas)
The … settled in the century, perhaps becuase of the gradual drying climate. Makes no sense!
The first one makes sense though!</p>
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<li>Facin overwhelming odds at Yorktown, Cornwallis naturally tried to avoid being trapped but it failed</li>
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<h2>Why is it D?</h2>
<p>Whats D? LOL. But this seems misarranged in terms of order. If I had to guess maybe … but it failed? IT? what is IT? it? odds? trapping? </p>
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<li>The ancient manuscript was a valuable find, even though the writing was difficult to decipher and the paper had begun to disintegrate.</li>
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<h2>Why E?</h2>
<h2>EVEN though is a switch again. So it goes from a good thing to bad. Theres nothing else bad. You might have been tripped up with the and but again isolate in a sentence. </h2>
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<li>Role models can motivate us if they are people whoseachievements we findrealistically attainable; in addition, comparing ourselves to super achievers may have the opposite effect. Answe is C… WHY!?</li>
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<h2>Whats C dude? Is it the in addition? Thats just akward. Just end the sentence </h2>
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<li>IN the eighteen century a simple method of musical notation helped to makemusic more popular than in any century.</li>
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<h2>I put D but is it because you need to have Other in there? When do you know to put other or not to put other?</h2>
<h2>The key word is MORE. It is comparision. You are comparing two thing. Any OTHER. meaning this century VS all the other century. Also can it be more popular than itself? Nope </h2>
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<li>A hypochondriac is when you have a tendency to complain about ailments that are largely imagined.</li>
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<h2>I put A but whats the reason behind it? is it due to the fact that you should not be used to reference hypochondriac but should rather be replaced with a person? explain please</h2>
<p>Yup. A hypochondriac is a person. You could say (an astigmatisim) (needing glasses) is when
BUT saying A genius is when you … makes no sense does it?</p>
<p>still don’t quite understand the reasoning behind 31. but great job on the rest! i’d like some confirmation from some more established members though… nothing against you dude.</p>
Generally, “which” refers to the noun right before it:
"I ate an apple, which cost me thirty cents.
However, sometimes “which” can refer to the general idea behind the entire preceding clause: He did not get the job, which really upset him.
In this case, it’s not the job that upset him; it’s the fact that he did not get the job.</p>
<p>This particular use of which is often seen in certain phrases: Sometimes “which” can be used to refer to an entire clause, in which case it would be nice to have additional words like “case” or “situation” to avoid confusion; these words would clarify that we are talking about a general case or situation as opposed to just the object represented by the noun right before “which.” He fell asleep on the road, following which he was hit by a garbage truck.</p>
<p>“That” and “which” are apparently interchangeable in the context of the sentence, so “a situation that” would be be more clarifying than just “which.” Also, what makes the original sentence actually wrong is the pronoun “it” (“which makes it a fierce political debate”) which does not refer to anything. A pronoun has to refer to something.
Coordinating conjunctions connect two clauses. “And” and “but” are coordinating conjunctions:
The Anasazi Indians settled in the southwest in the first century, but . . . eventually abandoned their settlements.
[indent]They settled in the southwest, and they abandoned their settlements.<a href=“%22But%22%20is%20better%20than%20%22and%22%20here%20since%20it%20shows%20the%20contrast.%20I%20replaced%20it%20with%20%22and%22%20to%20show%20that%20both%20conjunctions%20work%20similarly.”>/indent</a>
Notice how you can just divide the two clauses (“. . . settled . . .” and “. . . abandoned . . .”) with the conjunction and a comma (although in some cases the comma isn’t needed).
Conjunctions like “however” CANNOT be used in this way. You can’t say, “I ate an entire apple, however, I did not like it.” You would have to either start a new sentence or use a semicolon:</p>
<p>INCORRECT: “I ate an apple, however, I did not like it.”
CORRECT: “I ate an apple. However, I did not like it.”
CORRECT: “I ate an apple; however, I did not like it.”
CORRECT: “I ate an apple, but I did not like it.”
CORRECT: “I ate an apple but I did not like it.”</p>
<p>Notice how the same idea can be conveyed with a coordinating conjunction and with a non-coordinating conjunction. This doesn’t mean that both “however” and “but” act in the same way grammatically.</p>
<p>CORRECT: “The Anasazi Indians settled in the southwest in the first century but, perhaps because of the gradual drying of the climate, eventually abandoned their settlements.”
CORRECT: “The Anasazi Indians settled in the southwest in the first century but eventually abandoned their settlements.”
INCORRECT: The Anasazi Indians settled in the southwest in the first century**, however**, their settlements were eventually abandoned, perhaps because of the gradual drying of the climate."
INCORRECT: The Anasazi Indians settled in the southwest in the first century**, however**, their settlements were eventually abandoned."</p>
<p>A, the original sentence, is correct. E is incorrect because it uses “however” and a comma to separate two clauses despite the fact that it is not a coordinating conjunction. E is incorrect also because it uses the passive voice (“their settlements were eventually abandoned”) instead of the preferable active voice (“[they] eventually abandoned their settlements.”) In general, the active voice is better because it states the subject that does the action (e.g., “He did it.”) rather than merely state that the action was done (e.g., “It was done.”) Both forms are grammatically correct, however.
“It” is a pronoun, so it HAS to refer to something in the sentence. In this case, the thing that failed is Cornwallis’s attempt. But his “attempt” is not explicitly stated, so you can’t say that “it” failed. You can say that HE failed, since “he” refers to “Cornwallis,” but you can’t say “it” failed because the sentence never mentions an “attempt” in the noun form.</p>
<p>INCORRECT: “He attempted to avoid being trapped, but it failed.”
CORRECT: “He made an attempt to avoid being trapped, but **it<a href=“the%20attempt”>/b</a> failed.”
The answer is E, No error, because the sentence is grammatically correct.</p>
<p>A is grammatical because it is in the past tense; the ancient manuscript was found in the past. It was a valuable find.</p>
<p>B is grammatical because “although” is a subordinating conjunction that introduces a clause that acts in the contrary to the previous clause (“Even though this happened, that happened.”)</p>
<p>C is grammatical because “difficult [infinitive]” (“difficult to [verb]”) is the correct form. It is correct to say, “That was difficult to do.”</p>
<p>D is grammatical because the past perfect tense (“had [past participle]” = “had begun”) is used to differentiate between two past actions. OK, the manuscript WAS found, and the paper BEGAN to disintegrate. But which action occurred first? Obviously, since the sentence is describing the state of the manuscript when it was found, the paper must have began disintegrating BEFORE it was found–so when it was found it was disintegrating.</p>
<p>So the disintegration of the paper started occurring before the manuscript was found. When the paper was found, it had begun to disintegrate.</p>
<p>EXAMPLE: “When the man jumped off the bridge, he had been through so much turmoil.”
The two clauses (“Role models can motivate us . . .” and “. . . may have the opposite effect”) contradict each other in meaning. You wouldn’t want to use “in addition” to connect the two clauses because one isn’t adding on to the other. You would use something like “however” or “on the other hand.”
Yes, “any century” should be “any other century.” We know that the sentence is talking about the 18th century. The sentence is saying that in the 18th century, something was more popular than it was in the 17th century, for example. You can’t say that the method of musical notation was more popular in the 18th century than it was in the 18th century. You can only compare the popularity of something in the 18th century to the popularity of it in OTHER centuries.
“When” refers to a time period. A hypochondriac is a person, not a time period. “Is when you have” should be replaced with something like “is a person who has”:</p>
<p>INCORRECT: “A hypochondriac is when you have a tendency to complain about ailments that are largely imagined.”
CORRECT: “A hypochondriac is a person who has a tendency to complain about ailments that are largely imagined.”</p>
<p>You can technically say, “When you are a hypochondriac is when you have a tendency. . . .” But that sounds weird, and I wouldn’t say that or mark it correct. But I hope you understand the point that the two things have to be the same.</p>