Sentence Correction - Verbal Flashcards
A
D- Critiquing all chemistry from Robert Doyle forward and also a vision of
E- critiquing all the chemistry done since robert boyle as well as his own envisioning of
A- the phrases describing the esssays function are presented in parallel form.
Need to make ‘critique’ and ‘vision’ appositites of the “essay on heat and light” in parallel
C
subject needs to match written, and the word attribute needs the word to followed by a noun phrase, not infintive marker
C is correct becaseu teh main subject is correctly predicated of written and attribute is followed by to
B
illogically indicates that displacing grassses modifies either the next phrase or the main subject phrase. You need a clearer way to express the effects of hte invasion
B clearly expresses the effects of hte invasion with a compound predicate in the subordiante clause. Commas around milky sap make it clear the phrase that gives and displaces rendering is intended to modify a plant from eurasia.
A
rather than indicates a comparison that coordinates the two verbs in parallel form
instead of/in place of function as preprotions and need to be followed by a word that functions as a noun so they dont work
According to this sentence, Brosnan and Parker used two things in finding the set of The Ten Commandments: radar equipment and clues from DeMille’s autobiography. The sentence also notes that the two film buffs built much of the radar equipment themselves. The dashes set off text to convey an interesting detail that is only tangentially relevant to the core of the sentence.
(A) The structure both X as well as Y is unidiomatic; the correct idiom is both X and Y. Themselvesmodifies constructed, which in turn modifies equipment; the construction thus implies that themselvesrefers to the equipment; this is not only illogical but also ungrammatical, as themselves is plural and equipment is singular.
(B) If the section between dashes is removed, the remaining construction contains the first half of an idiomatic construction (both X), but not the second half (and Y). This is not acceptable; both halves should be together between the dashes OR together outside of the dashes. Further, the sentence loses meaning by placing used clues inside the dashes. They used equipment to locate the film set; as an aside, they constructed much of the equipment themselves and they used clues. What did they use the clues to do? The sentence doesn’t say.
(C) In the construction both ground-penetrating radar equipment and taking clues, equipment and takingare not parallel. The core sentence reads: using radar equipment, Brosnan and Parker were film enthusiasts who located the set of the film. The two did not use the radar equipment to be film enthusiasts; rather, they used the radar equipment to locate the film set. The meaning is illogical.
(D) The structure both X as well as Y is unidiomatic; the correct idiom is both X and Y. If the section between dashes is removed, the remaining construction contains the first half of an idiomatic construction (both X), but not the second half (and Y). This is not acceptable; both halves should be together between the dashes OR together outside of the dashes. Further, the choice appears to say that they constructed the equipment and the clues. Finally, in the construction both ground-penetrating radar equipment andtaking clues, equipment and taking are not parallel. The core sentence reads: using radar equipment, Brosnan and Parker were film enthusiasts who located the set of the film. The two did not use the radar equipment to be film enthusiasts; rather, they used the radar equipment to locate the film set. The meaning is illogical.
(E) CORRECT. Much of which properly refers to radar equipment, and they and themselves point to Brosnan and Parker, who are mentioned later in the sentence. The sentence core, using radar equipment, Brosnan and Parker located the set of the film, is logical.
