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Answer to Question 21
In choices A, C, and E, in attributing ... behavior modifies the perpetrators, producing the illogical statement
that the perpetrators rather than the defense attorneys are attributing behavior to food allergies. Choice C is also
wordy, and attributing ... as is unidiomatic in E. In the correct form of the expression, one attributes x, an effect,
to y, a cause; or, if a passive construction is used, x is attributed to y. D avoids the initial modification error by
using a passive construction (in which the attributors are not identified), but attributed x as the cause of y is
unidiomatic. Choice B is best.
Answer to Question 22
C, the best choice, places not and but in such a way that the distinction between springing to life in a flash of
inspiration and evolving slowly is logically and idiomatically expressed. A and B are faulty because, for
grammatical parallelism, not in a flash... must be followed by but in..., not by a conjugated form of the verb.
Moreover, were slowly evolved is incorrect in B because evolve, in this sense of the word, cannot be made
passive. Choices C, D, and E all correctly place not before spring. D, however, contains inconsistent verb
tenses; E contains the faulty passive and an intrusive they.
Answer to Question 23
Because a count of women employed outside the home at any given time will be expressed by a single number,
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the use of the plural noun numbers in choices A, B, and C is illogical. In A, the phrase grew by more than a
thirty-five percent increase is redundant and wordy, since the sense of increase is implicit in the verb grew. In
C and E, the passive verb forms were raised and was raised are inappropriate because there is no identifiable
agent responsible for the raising of the number of women employed. In choice E, was raised by ... increase is
redundant. Choice D, which presents the comparison logically and idiomatically, is the best answer.
Answer to Question 24
In A, B, and C, the phrase being converted is awkward and redundant, since the sense of process indicated by
being has already been conveyed by undergoing. A and D can be faulted for saying if rather than whether,
since the sentence poses alternative possibilities, to sign or not to sign. Only E, the best choice, idiomatically
completes whether with an infinitive, to sign, that functions as a noun equivalent of decision. Choice E also
uses the noun conversion, which grammatically completes the phrase begun by undergoing.
Answer to Question 25
Choice C is best. The third verb phrase in the series describing bulls and cows should have the same
grammatical form as the first two. Only choice C has a present participle (or "-ing" form) that is parallel with the
two preceding verbs, receiving and fetching. Instead of the present participle, choices A and B use the past
tense (excited), choice D uses an auxiliary verb (would excite), and choice E uses the past perfect tense (had
excited). Additionally, the incorrect verb tenses in B and E are introduced by a pronoun, it, that lacks a logical
noun referent.
Answer to Question 26
Choice B is the best answer. The sentence compares one thing, an adverse change in climate, to all other
things in its class-- that is, to all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, therefore, the
sentence requires the superlative form of the adjective, most difficult, rather than the comparative form, more
difficult, which appears in choices A and D. In A and C, the use of maybe is unidiomatic, and difficult should be
completed by the infinitive to analyze. Choice E is awkwardly phrased and, when inserted into the sentence,
produces an illogical structure: the possibility ... is... the analysis that.
Answer to Question 27
Choices A and B present dangling modifiers that illogically suggest that Owen and Randolph, rather than the
Messenger, were published in Harlem. In D, the phrase and published in Harlem is too remote from the
Messenger to modify it effectively. In E, being produces an awkward construction, and the placement of the
main clause at the end of the sentence is confusing. Only in C, the best answer, is Published in Harlem
followed immediately by the Messenger. Also, C makes it clear that the clause beginning who refers to
Randolph.
Answer to Question 28
In choices A and B, the verb suggest does not agree with its singular subject, rise. In context, the phrase into
the coming months in A and D is not idiomatic; in the coming months is preferable. In A, C, and D, the that
appearing after but creates a subordinate clause where an independent clause is needed for the new subject,
mixed performance. Choice E includes the correct verb form, suggests, eliminates that, and properly employs
the future tense, will continue to expand. That this tense is called for is indicated both by the future time to
which the coming months refers and by the parallel verb form will proceed in the nonunderlined part of the
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sentence. Choice E is best.
Answer to Question 29
Choice A is best. The other choices are unidiomatic or unnecessarily wordy, and the pronoun they, which
appears in B, C, and E, has no grammatical referent.
Answer to Question 30
Besides being wordy, the clauses beginning What was in A and The thing that was in B cause inconsistencies
in verb tense: the use of the new technology cannot logically be described by both the present perfect has
been and the past was. In B and D, developing the compact disc is not parallel to the use of new
technology to revitalize ... performances; in C, the best answer, the noun development is parallel to use.
The phrases none the less ... than in D and no less... as in E are unidiomatic; the correct form of expression,
no less ... than, appears in C, the best choice.
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