isn't transpiration from soil and from plants compound subjects? nope. this occurrence of 'and' does not make the subject compound, because it is contained within the prepositional phrases that modify the subject. the subject is still one word (transpiration), and is not in any way plural. in parti...

That would be changing the meaning of the sentence! Think of these examples (both correct): The present from my brother and from my sister was a good one. The present from my brother and the present from my sister were good ones. What can you comment? Well， I think I just not completely woke up whe...

Hi RON， Can I solve this SC problem in this way? 1)First, both "REGAIN" and "AGAIN " appear in the sentence, and this is completely unnecessary. Thus, we can eliminate A,B,D 2) Unlike "although" and "but", "then" cannot serve as a conjunction word, s...

Sage Pearce-Higgins Wrote:That's almost correct. You're right about the redundancy of 'again' in A, B, and D. However, the word 'then' isn't acting as a conjunction in E; the verbs could be part of a parallel construction (i.e. a list). But of course the verbs wouldn't be correct if that were the case.

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