Tricky parallelism question

The Federal Reserve bond buyback program has buoyed Wall Street, and helped the stock market reach record highs, but yet to translate into consistent job growth across the county. A) and helped the stock market reach record highs, but yet to translate into consistent job growth across the county. B)...

using "while with a comma"..experts please guide.

Even within the same study, people responded quite differently to acupuncture, some showing increased flexibility, while others did not. A) some showing increased flexibility, while others did not. B) with some showing increased flexibility, while others did not. C) with some showing an increase in ...

Thanks Ceilidh for the wonderful explanation and directing me to a similar question. I have a follow-up question though. How do we ascertain that the modifier is modifying what? In the original sentence above, for example, phrase "meticulously embellishing the elaborate calligraphy" may mo...

Tough modifier question..

Medieval monks, through their manuscript illuminations, meticulously embellishing the elaborate calligraphy, communicated their interpretive understanding of the texts they illustrated. A) Medieval monks, through their manuscript illuminations, meticulously embellishing the elaborate calligraphy, c...

Christopher Columbus and a Highway

The greatest road system built in the Americas prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus was the Incan highway, which, over 2,500 miles long and extending from northern Ecuador through Peru to Southern Chile. A) Columbus was the Incan highway, which, over 2,500 miles long and extending B) Columbu...

Tricky percent and number question...

Surveys in Domorica indicate that only 10 percent of Domoricans in their twenties read a newspaper regularly, while more than half of all Domoricans over thirty read a newspaper regularly. Although Domoricans in their twenties constitute a large proportion of the population, newspaper publishers non...

Good question - and the usage of "to suggest" here isn't the "in order to" version of the infinitive...it's more like: "I've found a maid to clean my apartment." or "We've hired an outside firm to serve our IT needs." This explanation will be woefully untechn...