OG 10th edition question

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OG 10th edition question

by jamesk486 » Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:56 pm
That the new managing editor rose from the publication's "soft" new sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.

A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman

I know being is usually almost wrong..but it sounds "right" :oops:

Unlike most warbler species, the male and female blue-winged warbler are very difficult to tell apart.

A. ...
B. Unlike most warbler species, the gender of the blue-winged warbler is very difficult to distinguish.
C. Unlike those in most warbler species, the male and female blue-winged arblers are very difficult to distinguish.
D. It is very difficult, unlike in most arbler species, to tell the male and female blue-winged warbler apart.
E. Blue-winged warblers are unlike most species of warbler in that it is very difficult to tell the male and female apart.

B, C and E all seem okay! :shock: [/u]
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Re: OG 10th edition question

by jaspetrovic » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:41 pm
Answer for 2nd:E

B & C-misplaced modifier -
werbel species, ?the gender?! and
those...species, ?the male and female blue-winged arblers?!

So, E for me

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by isisalaska » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:45 am
1) wow :o , I agree, B seems to be fine. My experience is sometimes, not too often though, being is fine
2)
E is definitely redundant
I will go with B for consciousness and clarity
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by jaspetrovic » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:07 am
I don't really understand 1st sentence.

For 2nd one I agree that E is wordy, but it is the best one available. There is no grammatical error in there.

What are the OA's?

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2nd question

by alugoya » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:06 pm
answer C is right ...
usage of those ....in choice is correct and the sentence is very cocise

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by jc114 » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:35 pm
the OAs are E and E~

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by aim-wsc » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:04 pm
Could you present OG s explanation for this and the original answers as well?

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by Cybermusings » Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:12 am
Is it E for the first sentence

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by Stacey Koprince » Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:53 pm
Tough ones.

The first is a parallelism issue. Notice that is starts with "that" - we're comparing these to things, saying one is not as important as the other. So they need to be parallel.

Only D and E start with "that" so A, B, and C are gone. The only difference between D and E is the tense ("was" vs. "is"). We generally use simple present tense to indicate something that is always true. She was a woman in the past, yes, but she still is, so we use simple present here. E.

The second one is a comparison issue. Whenever you compare things, you must compare "apples to apples."

B compares "species" to "gender" - those aren't "like" things.

C starts "unlike those in" - what is "those" referring to? (It can't refer to just "male and female" - those words are used as adjectives in the sentence and pronouns can only refer to nouns or other pronouns. And it can't refer to the entire "male and female blue-winged warblers" because that wouldn't make sense.) This sentence doesn't even make it clear if it is difficult to distinguish blue-winged warblers from other types of warblers or male blue-winged warblers from female blue-winged warblers.

E correctly compares one type of warbler, the blue-winged variant, to the other types ("most species of warbler")
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by BTGmoderatorRO » Sat Sep 30, 2017 2:03 am
OPTION A OPTION B AND OPTION C
A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
FAILS TO MAINTAIN PARALLELISM BECAUSE THEY DONT FOLLOW THE STRUCTURE
OPTION C COMPARES 'RISING' TO WOMANHOOD TOTALLY NON-SEQUITUR.

OPTION D. that she was a woman.
'was' here makes it looks like the woman is dead

OPTION E.
THIS OPTION MAINTAINS PARALLELISM AND IT CONSIST OF HE PRESENT TENSE VERB 'IS'

OPTION E IS THE CORRECT ANSWER.

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