kimmylouie

OKAY.

26. [Like his other cookbooks], in his new book Chef Louis offers lengthy explanations of what he considers to be basic cooking principles.

The bracket is wrong. So basically you can't modify a preposition phrase? Just explain PLEASEE!!!

25. The Food and Drug Administration has overlooked the dangers of (some) drugs that seemed (perfectly safe) (until) long after they (are) in general use. (No error)

It's (are). Is it because it should be (were)?

piratebay

26 - you can't compare it to cookboks, it should be being compared to "like in his other cookbooks"

27 - should be "have been" imo

kimmylouie

I still don't get it.. Like his other cookbooks modify in his new book. UNLESS it's not grammatically correct to modify a preposition phrase.

And piratebay, we working together or no?

tomatox1

26. I think it should be "As in his other cookbooks" because "Like his other cookbooks" is not really parallel to "in his new book."
25. The clause "that seemed (perfectly safe) (until) long after they (are) in general use" is in past tense because of the non-underlined portion "seemed."

kimmylouie

ok..

is this a true statement or no: Like his other cookbooks modify in his new book. UNLESS it's not grammatically correct to modify a preposition phrase.

tomatox1

Of course you can modify prepositional phrases. You can see this in "I climbed to the top of the tower on the mountain". "On the mountain" modifying "of the tower". I don't think you can modify prepositional phrases in the beginning of the sentence; however, a correct response to the first question would be "As in his other cookbooks," and that is modifying what CHEF LOUIS does, NOT the prepositional phrase "in his new cookbook"

kimmylouie

Thank you!

tomatox1

^^I realized that I made a mistake. Actually, In "I climbed to the top of the tower on the mountain," "on the mountain" is describing "tower," not "on the tower." So prepositional phrases as a whole can act as adjectives, but they are rarely described by adjectives.