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Wait, so what's the E:25 all about?

by sam98034

Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:46 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: the pies problem
Replies: 5
Views: 1462

If you write what was intended...isn't C the one that works the best? Just like [the Syrians] never forgave the Crusaders who overran their homeland, the Syrians have never [forgiven] the French for taking territory from them. Even as [the Syrians] never forgave the Crusaders who overran their homel...

by sam98034

Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:00 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: 1000 SC Q279
Replies: 6
Views: 3577

A says: Relief for the victims came from an unexpected source - M B says: For the victims, relief came from an unexpected source - M C says: Relief came from an unexpected source - M - for the victims D says: Relief came for victims from an unexpected source - M E says : Y was an unexpected source f...

by sam98034

Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:38 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Relief for Victims....Confusing one!!!
Replies: 14
Views: 2939

Take the fluff out and you'll see that, among other things, there are too many commas. (B) Before she had been the popular and respected novelist, George Eliot, she was Before she had been the novelist George Eliot, she was....theres too many commas (C) George Eliot has been the popular and respecte...

by sam98034

Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:57 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: George Eliiiot...........
Replies: 14
Views: 3509

there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were four years ago. there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many [microcomputers] as there were four years ago. "Microcomputers" is implied...otherwise, four times as ...

by sam98034

Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:34 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: 1000SC # 22
Replies: 9
Views: 6393

It cannot be A because the infinitive...but I'm not sure about it, the rule is up in the air. I know you can't put an adverb between a verb and it's object (he threw swiftly the ball) but isn't that saying that "to boldy go where no man has gone before" and "I expect it to more than d...

by sam98034

Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:58 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Metal prices
Replies: 13
Views: 2348

I think it has to be A. Contrast is...this is balck...while this is white. Contrary is...this is black...it's not black. Contrary to the belief that they recieved no cash prizes, they did recieve cash. Contrast is more like.... In contrast with popular belief that victors in the ancient Greek Olympi...

by sam98034

Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:10 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: differnce between in contrast with and contrast to
Replies: 6
Views: 52237

so what is the right answer? I would have thought D. Just look at the apostrophe on Blacks...you can tell it's wrong from that, so, D and E are wrong. B is wrong because it changes the meaning to a specific African place, the one that symbolizes freedom (as opposed to the other one). C is wrong...t...

by sam98034

Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:57 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: 1000SC; Qn5; need help b/w A and C
Replies: 9
Views: 8956

It can't be D unless the agreement is no longer in affect.
The first amendment "gives" us the freedom of speach, not "gave" us.

by sam98034

Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:42 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: 1000 sc queston number 2
Replies: 5
Views: 2025

How come no one has said D. Aerugo is the green bloom that produces over the course of time by the exposure of the metal to the oxygen in the atmosphere. It is the only one that works with the commas rule. That produces, like iron rust, over the course of time by the exposure of the metal to the oxy...

by sam98034

Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:59 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Following: Sc4
Replies: 9
Views: 3245

C. chores, whereas nearly six hours a week were
spent in 1997

should be

...chores; whereas, nearly six hours a week were spent in 1997.

by sam98034

Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:40 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: chores
Replies: 26
Views: 7521

A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice You use are twice...wrong (B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing in socioeconomically deprived areas [to eat fruit roll-ups.] It's an...

by sam98034

Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:27 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Planning
Replies: 9
Views: 3589

A is wrong because you don't have a "The reason... was because..." in English, only "The reason....was that..."

B is wrong because you need a would, not will

C should say "was [that] she believed"

D wrong use of so

E process of elimination

by sam98034

Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:50 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: wiiliam
Replies: 4
Views: 1936

The answer has to be E. In English written things and facts not disproven are always in the present tense. If this agrrement was abolished, then we can use "reduced." A long time ago people discovered that the world is round not the world was round. In The Lion King Scar kills Mufasa, not ...

by sam98034

Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:17 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: 1000 sc queston number 2
Replies: 5
Views: 2025

Astronomers have theorized that the Big Bang governs the behavior of interstellar dust, particles that comprise the atoms and molecules created in the progenitive explosion and persisting in even the emptiest regions of space. My guess is that you're making this too complicated. Particles is implied...

by sam98034

Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:01 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Big Bang and Interstellar dust
Replies: 13
Views: 4110