thesmiths

p. 725 #23

Given her strong sense of social justice, Bruns vehemently protested over her party failure to support a tax decrease for senior citizens. No error

Answer: C (protested over). I was just wondering why?

p. 725 #24

The friendly competition between my older sister and I began as soon as we learned that our aunt had joked that she might write a will [c]leaving[/u] her house to me alone

I thought the answer was D, despite the right use of objective case. I know that in the objective case, you use "me", but why not "I" IN this instance if "my older sister and I" is the subject??

p. 725 #29

Today a medican doctor must often make a choice between engaging in private practice or engaging in research.

Answer: D (or). Why?

p. 724 #16

In the [u]early days[/i] of the steam locomotive, compassionate engineers would sometimes have thrown coal overboad in poor neighborhoods.

Answer: C (have thrown)

I got this right, but I was wondering: In what instances do you use "have [verb]"?

xitammarg

hiya--

for the first one, the verb "protest" doesn't need a preposition after it. you protest something, instead of protesting over something.

for the second question, the subject is "competition," not "my sister and me." the main verb in the sentence is "began," and the competition is the thing beginning. "my sister" and "me" are both the objects of the preposition "between," which is why you need the object case.

for the third question, the proper idiom is "between X and Y," not "between X or Y."

for the fourth question, "would have thrown" describes a situation contrary to fact. if this were the usage intended by the sentence, we'd need the rest of the condition to be included in the sentence (" . . . would have thrown coal overboard in poor neighborhoods if they had been allowed to.") since there's no "if" phrase, we know that the sentence is trying to describe something that actually happened. in that situation, "would throw" means that the action used to happen constantly, and would be correct in this context.

hope that helps--i'm on my way to the gym so it's a little rushed