dear instructor: [deleted because problem is from a banned source - see below] i do not understand why OG says"in choiceB, this use of the passive voice makes this sentence vague" ? i searched for some other websites about this problem, and I read an opinion: the passive voice is needed wh...

Dear instructor:

sorry to write OG questions here, because I couldn't find the right way to post OG questions.

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Hi~
A little more question: 7#, why should we use "would"here?

Please reply me, thanks a lot ~

tim Wrote:Also, please note that I have deleted the problem you quoted because it is illegal to post OG problems on our forum.

Thanks for your explanation on passive voice above. I have learned this issue from other posts you have made before.

Thanks a lot!

the big problem with choice (e) is that the modifier creates an unacceptable change of meaning. if you have dark spots on the sun's surface, which have never been sighted... then the problem is that the "which" modifier is actually talking about the spots described in the previous clause ...

Finally"”and perhaps most importantly"”the overall structure of B doesn't make sense. B contains "hampers xxxx... AND results in yyyy". This construction implies that these are two separate, independent observations . This doesn't make sense. D also uses "and", but att...

Those two modifiers work the same way, sure. I'm confused by your reference to the "sentences", though, since the sentences (in their entirety) are clearly different. Did you just mean "modifiers"? hi, RON Does your explanation mean that 'evidence that suggest=evidence suggestin...

there are additional meaning issues, too: 1/ these need to be separate observations : i/ they appear in xxxx sort of way BUT, ii/ they have never been sighted at xxxx place. if you use the modifier, then you're implying that "...which have never been sighted at place xxxx" is part of how ...

Hi Ron, Just wanted to clarify one thing. The construction of sentence " A law making it a crime punishable xxx " is same as the construction of sentence "Scientist have gathered evidence suggesting that xxx "? (OG13 SC 65) In first sentence "making xxx" modifies "...

Hi, instructors, Could u explain what's wrong with D? Thanks very much! if you're going to use a "that"/"those" construction, then the modifier MUST be DIRECTLY attached to "that"/"those". e.g. the population of argentina is more than ten times that of urugua...

Also, "after having fallen" is illogical, too. "After falling" makes sense. See, "falling" is something that happens ... and then it's over. Once it's over, stuff happens "after falling". "Having fallen" never ends , since it describes the state of ...

[ron: i accidentally hit "edit" instead of "reply", thereby erasing the post that was here.

the essence of this post was "i'm a non-native english speaker, so these differences are hard for me. these are low-priority differences, right?"]

A violates parallelism: "both rooted ... and Duke Ellington" C does not have an independent clause to the left of ",yet": "...Thelonius Monk, who produced a body of work..." has no actual verb attached to it. Hi, Ron Grammatically, choice B should be writen as"bot...