the context: • mormons once accounted for %75 of the population. • they now account for %50 of the population. so, "it" = population. Hi, Ron, I'm still confused. Is it because that in" 75 percent of the population", "75 percent " is a noun and not a modifier attached ...

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I'm confused on the 'if the noun has a timeframe attached to it, then any pronoun will carry that same timeframe' er, according to above, why don't we consider 'between 1990 and 2000' a timeframe attached to 'the global economy' in choice A? "between 1990 and 2000" describes the entire se...

Hi, Ron, sorry to bump this thread again. I think in choice D, there is nothing wrong with the placement of "that clause" modifier But, "that" can't refer to "patients" in choice D. "patients" are "people". People can only use "who/whom" to...

"Contemporaneous" doesn't really pass muster here, either. The situation described in the sentence could obtain at any point after 1933 -- even decades later -- as long as the law stayed in effect. In the example you cited, note that the things in the modifier (plummeting costs and increa...

Thanks ron! but sorry, I’m more confused now. T^T If “which” can refer to noun1 in the condition that noun2 is grammatically correct, how can we exclude the answer with the “which” ambiguity (considering meaning, "which" should refer to noun1;however it's closer to noun2, and noun2 is gram...

Also, remember that you can't really memorize which constructions are "point" constructions and which are relationships. It varies from problem to problem. Some things"”like the ones I listed above"”are always relationships, and so are always important. But, some things can be &...

Hi, Ron, I want to figure out a stupid question. er,is " three out of every four owners" plural? I'm not native speaker and not familiar with this structure. I remember in the manhattan 5th edition SC book, every+noun is singular. how to understand this "three out of every four owners...

Hi, Ron, another thing needs your help! In a similar question but the choice B is a little different " B) Since 1990 the growth of the global economy has been more than that during 10,000 years, from when agriculture began. " you said that " the growth of the global economy" can'...

hi ron sorry to bump this old thread again er, I remember that the same pronoun (such as they them their) in a sentence always points to the same antecedent. therefore in choice D, it is unaccepable that them and they refer to different antecedent. Am I wrong? I'm not intend to doubt the correct ans...

hi，ron why is "schools do not have many computers, nor do they need many" right and " schools do not have many computers, nor are likey to have" wrong and "schools neither have many computers, nor are likely to have" right? I can't figure the distinctions and am confuse...

Hi, Ron sorry to bump this old thread again. in the following problem "More than 300 rivers drain into Siberia's Lake Baikal, which holds 20 percent of the world's fresh water, more than all the North American Great Lakes combined." you said that the second "more than XXX" is an ...

(1) hi ron sorry to bump this old thread again er, I remember that the same pronoun (such as they them their) in a sentence always points to the same antecedent. therefore in choice D, it is unaccepable that them and they refer to different antecedent. Am I wrong? I'm not intend to doubt the correct...

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terminology is a waste of your time; there's no reason to know it. (personally, i'm incapable of retaining these terms; if i mentioned one of them in another thread, i almost certainly just finished googling it.) do you understand how the sentence works? can you make your own examples with similar ...