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<p>(Whether the ancient ancestors of American Indians actually migrated or did not) across a land bridge now covered by the Bering Strait remains uncertain, but that they could have has not been refuted by other theories.</p>

<p>1 Whether the ancient ancestors of American Indians actually migrated or did not
2 That the ancient ancestors of American Indians actually did migrate
3 The actuality of whether the ancient ancestors of American Indians migrated
4 Whether in actuality the ancient ancestors of American Indians migrated or not </p>

<h2>5 That the ancient ancestors of American Indians may actually have migrated</h2>

<p>Many political conservatives (contribute) the problems of modern American society
to the twin evils of the New Deal and (secular humanism), both (of which) (are)</p>

<h2>presumed to stem from Marxism. No error.</h2>

<p>Siblings growing up in a family do not necessarily have equal opportunities to achieve, (the difference being their placement in the family, their innate abilities, and their personalities.)</p>

<p>1 the difference being their placement in the family, their innate abilities, and their personalities.
2 because of their placement in the family, their innate abilities, and their personalities.
3 and the difference is their placement in the family, their innate abilities, and their personalities.
4 they have different placements in the family, different innate abilities, and different personalities. </p>

<h2>5 their placement in the family, their innate abilities, and their personalities being different</h2>

<p>(Whether adult adoptees should be allowed to see their original birth certificates or not) is controversial, but many adoptive parents feel strongly that records should remain closed.</p>

<p>1 Whether adult adoptees should be allowed to see their original birth certificates or not
2 Whether or not adult adoptees should be allowed to see their original birth certificates or not
3 The fact of whether adult adoptees should be allowed to see their original birth certificates
4 Allowing the seeing of their original birth certificates by adult adoptees </p>

<h2>5 That adult adoptees should be allowed to see their original birth certificates </h2>

<p>Answers
2<br>
1<br>
5<br>
5<br>
My answers
4
4
2
1</p>

<p>PLEASE explain your answers ?</p>

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<p>Strip the sentence in question 1 to:
“Whether the Indians actually migrated or did not remains uncertain.” Note that in this form “or did not” + “uncertain” is a double negative, redundant and awkward. Choice 4 has the same problem. Choice 3 with “The actuality …” is bad English. So that leaves choice 3: (In the stripped form): That the Indians migrated remains uncertain. It’s nice and simple … assertion of claim and that the claim is uncertain</p>

<p>The 4th question in your post is identical to the above. Use the same analysis, and you get (in stripped form): That children be allowed to see their birth certificate is controversial, but many parents feel that records should remain closed. Again assertion of claim and response.</p>

<p>For the 3rd question:</p>

<p>The problem is word choice. Instead of contribute you need attribute. The sentence doesn’t make sense with “contribute”. Look up the definitions.</p>

<p>Question 2 is tricky. My first pick was also 2. I can see why 5 might be better. It is more precise in stating that the innate abilities etc. are different, etc. In choice 2 this is implicit. I need to think some more about this one.</p>

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