<p>Help out with grammar questions.</p>
<li> (While)(A) many children (claim hearing) (B) Santa’s reindeer on the roof, no one has proved that (such a person)(C) (truly)(D) exists.</li>
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<p>Answer is B.
I don’t understand why.</p>
<p>2) (In the long run)/A, (having)/B a president and a governor of opposing parties may actually help, (not hinder)/C (his)/D ability to succeed. </p>
<p>Answer is D. I had difficultly understanding the whole sentence.</p>
<p>1) “Claim hearing” doesn’t work - the gerund “hearing” is wrong. It should be “claim to hear” or “claim to have heard”. “Claim” is the active verb.</p>
<p>2) To whom does “his” refer? The president? The governor? The government? There’s no clear antecedent for the pronoun. </p>
<p>To try to understand the sentence, take out the parentheses:
“In the long run, having a president and a governor of opposing parties may actually help, not hinder, the president’s ability to succeed.” (Or the governor’s; I just put in president as an example.)</p>
<p>totally agree with Chedva! The ‘him’ in 2 is quite ambiguous.</p>