<li><p>The Neuse River in North Carolina is thought to be about two million years old, and there has likely been human settlements in the basin for at least 14,000 years. No error</p></li>
<li><p>Shortly after Queen Eleanor arrived in Nottingham in 1257 for a visit, she fled the town because she could not stand the smell of coal smoke and was afraid and feared for her health. No error</p></li>
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<p>Please state why it is wrong. Don’t merely state, “because it sounds wrong”. I want to know what rule it breaks. Thanks!</p>
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<li><p>[Despite] a protest [by] 300 angry drivers, the five members of the bridge authority [voted unanimously] [to raise] the passenger-car toll on the bridge from $1.00 to $2.00. [No error]</p></li>
<li><p>The first signs in six months of a pickup in consumer spending [are emerging], [which reduces] the chances [that] the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates when [it meets] next month. [No error]</p></li>
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<li><p>In the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci suggested that defective vision [can be corrected] [by placing] a lens [in direct contact] [with] the eye. [No error]</p></li>
<li><p>The radiation emanating from the Sun has been very nearly constant for millions of years, but the amount of heat that falls on Earth’s surface depends on both the length of the period of daylight as well as on the angle of incidence of incoming sunlight.
(A) depends on both the length of the period of daylight as well as on
(B) depends both on the length of the period of daylight as well as
(C) depends both on the length of the period of daylight and on
(D) both depends on the length of the period of daylight and
(E) both depends on the length of the period of daylight and on</p></li>
<li><p>In the sixteenth century, the forests were destroyed in Britain, which meant not only a shortage of the most important building material of the time, but also a fuel shortage.
(A) the forests were destroyed in Britain, which meant not only a shortage
(B) the forests in Britain were destroyed, which meant a shortage not only
(C) the forests were destroyed in Britain, meaning a shortage not only
(D) destruction of the forests in Britain meant not only a shortage
(E) destruction of the forests in Britain meant a shortage not only</p></li>
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<li>In the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, public places such as theaters, restaurants, shops, and banks had installed electric lighting, but electricity was in fewer than one percent of homes and lighting still provided mainly by candles or gas.
(A) electricity was in fewer than one percent of homes and lighting still
(B) electricity was in fewer than one percent of homes, where lighting was still
(C) fewer than one percent of homes that had electricity, where lighting was still being
(D) fewer than one percent of homes with electricity, having lighting that was still
(E) fewer than one percent of homes had electricity, where lighting had still been</li>
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