Verbal Flashcards
Content/Rules/Strategies:
Between X and Y; Parallelism
What did I need to “SEE” in order to____?
The structure between X or Y is unidiomatic; the correct idiom is between X and Y.
Parallelism: jobs X but Y should be parallel.
Parallelism: items in list should be parallel.
(E)
Content/Rules/Strategies:
Either X or Y
What did I need to “SEE” in order to____?
Either too time-consuming and involve too many variables are not parallel.
A semi-colon (;) is only used to connect two complete sentences.
would either be too time-consuming or would involve too many variables to test manually are not parallel
What did I need to recognize about that thing?
To test parallelism, remove the parallelism marker and read the second half of the sentence – i.e. Because the verb would appears before the parallelism marker either, parallelism dictates the following reading of the second item: to test cases that would would involve too many variables..
(C)
Content/Rules/Strategies:
Prepositional phrase
What did I need to “SEE” in order to____?
“Of my aunts” cannot be the subject of the sentence because that is a prepositional phrase. “Neither” must be the subject.
What did I need to recognize about that thing?
“Neither” is the Subject –> “Want” is incorrect verb, must be singular “wants”.
(D)
Content/Rules/Strategies:
Subject-Verb Agreement
What did I need to “SEE” in order to____?
Split: Has v. Have
Subject: Number v. Amount
“Of car accidents” is not the subject; that is a prepositional phrase.
What did I need to recognize about that thing?
Amount of is used only with uncountable quantities, such as amount of salt. Since accidents are countable, the correct quantity reference is the number of car accidents.
(E)
Content/Rules/Strategies:
Idiom: “Both X and Y”
What did I need to “SEE” in order to____?
Both halves (both X and Y) should be together between the dashes OR together outside of the dashes. Missing subject in first underline "much of it constructed themselves" -- Who?!
What did I need to recognize about that thing?
“Both X as well as Y” is undiomatic
Much of which properly refers to radar equipment, and they and themselves point to Brosnan and Parker, who are mentioned later in the sentence
(E)
