Why is 'now dedicatED' a proper construction for something that is happening in the present? I know it sounds correct to the ear. Just trying to understand grammatical rule behind it.

What is wrong with answer choice E?
Also, what exactly does '...,weighing less than 11 ounces' modify? Does it modify the closest noun (handheld computer) or the subject of the preceding portion (the length)?

Can someone explain why A is incorrect?
'a greater proportion than it was'

If you exclude 'it' don't you have a faulty comparison of [a greater proportion] than [in any previous election]?

all one has to do with cattle is = active
the only thing that has to be done with cattle is = passive

I can't tell how one is passive and the other is active. Can someone elaborate?

d) having recently added many new restaurants across the country and with its sales increasing dramatically, the restaurant company's e) recently adding many new restaurants across the country and having its sales increase dramatically, the restaurant company's Can someone comment on what's wrong wi...

D. Rivers, originally flowing into the St. Lawrence by way of Lake Michigan, but having been redirected by the construction of

What is wrong w/ D? How do I interpret the 'having been' construction?

Can someone explain what is wrong with E?

Yes, my question is exactly just "what qualifies this as active and that as passive?"...? It's confusing to me because 'cattle' is at the end of both of these sentence (as opposed to the 'joe ate pizza ' and 'the pizza was eaten by joe' examples). Plus I have trouble identifying agent of a...

Can you post what the official answer to this problem is?

the // indicates where the parallelism starts - everything before the // applies to each piece in the parallel part ("for Y" and "for Z") If this is the correct structure, it really does sound strange. More as a subsitute [for Y] than [for Z] could be simplified to: More as a su...

Can someone comment on what is wrong with answer choice B? Thanks.

i think Selvae is correct. A changes the intended meaning of the sentence. A gives the impression that the portfolios have the intention to turn in good result but it is the Asset allocators who have the required intention. hence IMO C is correct. Thanks! yes, (a) implies that the allocators themse...

A. but it was not as highly sophisticated as that of the Maya and was

How do we know that "it" and "that" refer to 'written language'? Couldn't these pronouns also refer to 'hieroglyphic system of writing'?

Can someone explain what is incorrect about C?
C) as those whose

A report shows that there are more than three times as many X and as Y
X = Households where...
Y = [Those = households] whose.....