Whats wrong with these sentences!?

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1. Because traffic was unusually heavy, jim arrived ten minutes late for his job interview even though he had ran desperately all the way from the bus stop.</p>

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<li>To insist that a poem means whatever one wants it to mean is often ignoring the intention and even the words of the poet.</li>
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<p>So these Q’s are from the writing section. The ones where you choose which part of the sentence is wrong. I have the answer key to these Qs and they say the part i underlined is wrong, but i cant seem to figure out why they are wrong.

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<p>First sentence should read:</p>

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<li>Because traffic was unusually heavy, Jim arrived ten minutes late for his job interview even though he had run desperately all the way from the bus stop.</li>
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<p>Explanation: You can’t say he had RAN. The proper way to use ran in that sentence would be to completely eliminate “had” altogether. </p>

<p>Second sentence should read:</p>

<p>To insist that a poem means whatever one wants it to mean is often to ignore the intention and even the words of the poet</p>

<p>Explanation: The error here is that the incorrect sentence lacks parallelism. Notice how the subject phrase starts with “to insist”, meaning that the predicate must also begin with an infinitive verb (In this case “to ignore”).</p>