<p>1/ As You know , I am not easily fooled by flattery , and while <em>nice words please You,</em> they don’t get the job done </p>
<p>A/nice word please you
b/ nice words are pleasing
C/nice words please a person
d/flattering words please people
E/flattering words are pleasing to some one </p>
<p>2/Allied control of Philippine Islands during world war II proved to be *another obstacle as the Japanese scattered resistance * until the end of the war </p>
<p>A/ another obstacle as the Japanese scattered resistance
B/ difficult because of the Japanese giving resistance
C/ continuing scattered Japanese resistance as obstacle
D / as another scattered obstacle due to Japanese resistance
E / difficult because the Japanese gave scattered resistance </p>
<p>3/* Ringing loudly ,Doug’s girlfriend called him on the telephone to insist * he come over right away </p>
<p>A/Ringing loudly ,Doug’s girlfriend called him on the telephone to insist
B/Doug’s loud girlfriend rang him on the telephone to insist
C/loudly ringing , the telephone was the insisting girlfriend of Doug
D/when the telephone rang loudly , Doug’s girlfriend was calling to insist
E/the telephone rang loudly , and Doug’s girlfriend was calling to insist </p>
<p>Plz , I need explanations
ThanKs for helpin’ :)</p>
<p>pretty sure that 1 is B.</p>
<p>1) The main issue here is “person” References to self (alone or in groups) are in the first person, e.g., I, me, we, us. References to someone to whom you are speaking are in the second person (you, also thou and thee in old-fashioned usage). References to other people are in the third person, e.g. he, she, him, her, they, them. In formal written English, the reader is not addressed as “you.” Also “you” is not used to refer to a generic individual. That should be “one.” </p>
<p>If you look at the choices, “flattering” is not the same as “nice,” so that would change the meaning, and you can rule it out. (I use “you” here because I am referring to the OP, specifically. One can also rule it out–referring generically to a test taker.) Choice A is out, because of the use of “you,” especially following “I” earlier in the sentence. This leaves B and C. C is not as good, because the speaker (“I”) is describing a personal experience, and the phrase “a person” raises the question, “What person?” B is fine, so it is the correct choice.</p>
<p>2) Here, you have to understand what the point of the sentence is, and its context, in order to identify the correct answer. The US had difficulty securing control of the Philippines during WW II. The difficulty occurred because Japanese soldiers continued to resist, on a sporadic basis, until the end of the war. </p>
<p>In fact, some of them continued to resist after the war had ended–a family friend was killed by a Japanese soldier in the Philippines after the war was actually over.</p>
<p>Next, you need to know that the correct usage is “resist” or “give resistance.” One doesn’t “scatter resistance.” “Scattered” here is an adjective modifying resistance, and it means intermittent or sporadic, as well as spatially distributed. A is out. Next, it’s useful to know that when you have a gerund (verb form ending in “ing” used as a noun) and it belongs to someone, so to speak, you need to use the possessive form for the person. So you cannot say “the Japanese giving resistance.” It would be possible to say “the Japanese soldiers’ giving resistance” (note the possessive), but that’s not a choice. So B is out. C doesn’t make any sense at all. In D, the obstacle is not scattered, the obstacle is the scattered resistance. So D is out. E is correct.</p>
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<li> Approach this one logically. You also need to know that an introductory phrase such as “Ringing loudly” is taken to modify the next noun that appears in the sentence, after the comma. Doug’s girlfriend wasn’t ringing loudly, it was the telephone. A is out. Doug’s girlfriend might be loud, but the sentence is really trying to say that the ring was loud. So B is out. The telephone definitely wasn’t the girlfriend, so C is out. (The girlfriend was on the telephone, but she wasn’t the telephone.) When it comes to D vs. E, I’d give a slight edge to D, but I don’t think either of these is the best way to express the real meaning in English. The use of “and” in E is a little odd, because it’s not two separate events (which might be joined by “and”), but rather a pair of connected events–the person calling turned out to be Doug’s girlfriend.</li>
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<p>Thank U all for helpin’ me 
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<p>and Thanks a million QuantMech
U really helped me</p>
<p>awesome explanation!</p>
<p>3 could be **. It is a poorly written question… I suspect it wasn’t collegeboard.</p>
<p>3 could also could be [D] or [E]… again not a good question.</p>
<p>The answer is…
Fuuuuuuennntesss!!</p>