Hi Ron, In the reply to this question: MBA Action wrote:Do we have a split here between "increase in" and "increase of"? or is it a red herring? you wrote: genuine split. not red herring. "the increase in X" means that X itself has increased. therefore, "the increa...

^^ that's actually a valid point (you can read "in the previous year" as a timeframe modifier). ...but, as is basically always the case, these little distinctions are included AS DISTRACTIONS— to punish you for letting your attention drift from MAJOR / FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS . __ in this prob...

I thought that in B, "which" always must refer to the previous name, that is Nixon, and for this reason it would be incorrect. But in fact, OA is B. Can any instructor explain? Although she had been known as an effective legislator first in the Texas Senate and later in the United States ...

^^ "comma + __ing" modifiers don't modify nouns. in fact, this is the whole purpose of "comma + __ing" modifiers : they specifically exist to describe actions, NOT nouns. __ this is a fundamental error ("comma + __ing" is one of the few major types of modifiers consist...

#4 In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record, Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting East African cave paintings. (A) Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the e...

and here is what I think “hunters of large animals, rather than mere scavengers of meat” could have the possibility of being construed as “ hunters of large animals, rather than of mere scavengers of meat” but, sure, it is illogical to a large extent Nonsense interpretations can always be rejected....

2. Is "emerged from examining ..." less preferable than "emerged from the examination of"? Or is "emerged from examining ..." just incorrect?

Thanks for clarifying! Any comments on this question?

Originally I eliminated D, the correct answer choice because I felt like the "schools" they were referring to were not explicitly stated as charter vs. public schools, and I didn't want to automatically make that assumption. Are we allowed to make the assumption that the schools that are ...

Is the structure "of + VERBING" is always right? for any question of the form "is the structure _____ always right?", the answer is almost always going to be no. Hi Ron, I am so confused with the correct usage of "prep.+v-ing" ,I remembered that you said v-ing is funct...

Hi Ron, despite the S-V agreement issue in choice A and B and the "from to" issue, is there any other problems? If I change the option A and B to: A>projects an average global warming that will be between 1.8 and B>projects an average global warming to be between 1.8 and which one is...

In B when you say "and" creates a lack of connection between two actions. Is this because when we join two actions with "and" it means that those two actions are independent of each other, these action are not related that's basically the idea, unless "and" is followed...

Can someone please explain to me whether "who" modifies the United States or not? Shouldn't who modify the students??? Who is a relative pronoun which modifies preceding noun.. This was the reason why I axed D and E nope, you can't do that with essential modifiers (i.e., modifiers that ar...