Can someone tell me if my answers are right?
Questions 7-15
Directions: In each of the sentences below, three portions are underlined and lettered. Read each sentence and decide whether any of the underlined parts contains a grammatical construction, a word use, or an instance of incorrect or omitted punctuation that would be inappropriate in carefully written English. If so, note the letter printed beneath the underlined portion and fill in the corresponding lettered space on the answer sheet.
If there are no errors in any of the underlined portions, fill in space D. No sentence has more than one error.
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7) Surrounded by mountains and 7,400 feet above sea level, Mexico City (A) suffers from both (B) kinds of air pollution, the photochemical reaction of Los Angeles (C) or the thermal inversion of New York.
A) suffers from
B) kinds of air pollution
C) or
D) No error
8) Before the publications of Broca’s studies, (A) nearly all scientists assumed that the two halves of the brain, which on casual inspection (B) appear identically, (C) performed the same functions.
A) nearly all scientists
B) appear identically
C) performed the same functions.
D) No error
9) Because such white-collar (A) crimes like bribery, price-fixing, and embezzlement cannot be successfully prosecuted without the cooperation of accomplices, most prosecutors are (B) willing to promise to recommend leniency in return (C) for information from those who are implicated.
A) crimes like
B) willing to promise
C) for information from those who are implicated.
D) No error
10) Hegel seems to have become for Gombrich (A) what Machiavelli (B) has for the Elizabethans: Old Nick, the (C) very devil responsible for all evils.
A) what
B) has
C) very
D) No error
11) (A) No Chinese or Indian object--indeed, (B) no object of any kind from Asia--has been found in the Americas in archaeological levels (C) that date to pre-Columbian times.
A) No Chinese
B) no object of any kind
C) that date to
D) No error
12) Very few political scientists recommend a governmental organization (A) in which all positions of influence and power (B) to be filled by popular elections (C) alone.
A) in which
B) to be
C) alone.
D) No error
13) The opinion polls and the 2,000 letters a week (A) received by her office confirm that (B) Senator Addison’s appeals to storekeepers, small homeowners, and suburbanites (C) dissatisfied with high tax rates.
A) received by her office
B) Senator Addison's appeals
C) dissatisfied
D) No error
14) Although unemployment in California decreased slightly last month, (A) but the number of people (B) out of work (C) increased.
A) but the number
B) out of work
C) increased
D) No error
15) In a series of four lectures on Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Mary Church Terrell, the speaker (A) will examine the roles, (B) their contribution, and achievements of Black women (C) in many phases of American life.
A) will examine
B) their contribution
C) in many phases
D) No error
Here are my answers
7. d
8. a
9. c
10. d
11. b
12. b
13. a
14. a
15. d
As I read these questions, you have numbers 7, 12, and 14 correct.
corrections
8. d
9. d
10. a
11. d
13. b
15. c
How about now?
11 and 13 are now correct.
One last time. This was hard ! Thanks for your help.
8. b
9. a
10. b
15. b
Can you explain 10 as I do not even get that one?
10) Hegel seems to have become for Gombrich (A) what Machiavelli (B) has for the Elizabethans: Old Nick, the (C) very devil responsible for all evils.
A) what
B) has
C) very
D) No error
The correct word for B is "was." The linking verb "has become" needs a linking verb (was) for parallel structure.
Tracie,
This is an Axia class. You have all the material in your Syllabus, DQ's and so forth. I suggest to look at the class material your instructor leaves for each week.