The Supreme Court has ruled that public universities may collect student activity fees even with students’ objections to particular activities, so long as the groups they give money to will be chosen without regard to their views.
1) same
2) if they have objections to particular activities and the groups that are given the money are
3) if they object to particular activities but the groups that the money is given to have to be
4) from students who object to particular activities, so long as the groups given money are
5) though students have an objection to particular activities, but the groups that are given the money be
My question
So long as is correct here? Shouldn't it be 'as long as'. That is why I eliminated option 1 and 4 .
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So long as correct here?
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My understanding is that "as long as" and "so long as" are actually interchangeable.
Generally speaking, I would avoid eliminating answer choices based on the usage of phrases like this one, at least initially. Instead, go for the low-hanging fruit! This problem is a good example... it's rife with pronoun issues that can rule out three of the answer choices.
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Generally speaking, I would avoid eliminating answer choices based on the usage of phrases like this one, at least initially. Instead, go for the low-hanging fruit! This problem is a good example... it's rife with pronoun issues that can rule out three of the answer choices.
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Can you please tell me what's the answer to the question?
we can eliminate a,b,c because of pronoun errors. and d seems to have tense error.
so i go for e.
we can eliminate a,b,c because of pronoun errors. and d seems to have tense error.
so i go for e.
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(4) is the correct choice.
"has ruled ... may collect ... so long as ... are chosen" is the proper tense usage.
"has ruled ... may collect ... so long as ... are chosen" is the proper tense usage.
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Stuart Kovinsky wrote:(4) is the correct choice.
"has ruled ... may collect ... so long as ... are chosen" is the proper tense usage.
Can the original question stem also be interpreted as the universities can
collect fees with students' objection - the students being some students who object but not necessarily the ones from whom the fees are to be collected? The reason for this understanding being
1. students' - this has an apostrophe
2. An assumption can be all students do not have to pay activity fees.
With this, I have an issue with "D" - is it changing the meaning of the
sentence?
thanks,
tarak
