Writing questions in test 10

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  1. *The illustrated books by Dr. Suess **HAVE **managed **KEEPING **youngsters and adults **ALIKE **entertained **FOR **several decades. **No error**.*

What is wrong with have managed keeping?

  1. An excerpt: *Otis is also not credit with developing an elevator large enough and powerful enough to lift heavy loads. They had actually been in use for half of his lifetime.*

Question: What is the best way to revise sentence 4?

a. Delete it
b. Switch it with sentence 5.
c. Change “They” to “Such elevators”.
d. Change “his” to “Otis”.
e. Insert “supposedly” after “lifetime”.

The answer is C. but isn’t it wrong? The sentence before 4 says an elevator, not elevators.

  1. Question: What is the best version of sentence 7?

What was noteworthy about this was that it was then possible for people to use elevators, not just freight.

a. As it is now
b. Consequently, it was then possible for elevators to be used for people and freight, and this was noteworthy.
c. People, not just freight, could use elevators; that this was possible was noteworthy.
d. This development was noteworthy because elevators could now be used for people as well as for freight.
e. It is noteworthy that both people and freight can use elevators.

How is answer E right? It never makes sense to say that freight can use elevators!

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  1. Should be manage to keep instead.
  2. Hard to have a firm answer without reading the passage for me.
  3. If you wrote everything verbatim then the answer should be D, not E.
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  1. Whenever a gerund pops up on the writing section, try to replace the underlined portion with the infinitive and see whether it's better or not. In this case: managing--->manage
  2. Did you correctly transcript this sentence? Shouldn't credit be "credited"? No, those two words do not have to have both be singular. For example, take this sentence: Historians believe that the Mayans were the creators of a tool that harvests plants. But such tools had already been created decades before the Mayans even came about. The second sentence is specifying the described tool in the first sentence. I'm pretty sure you only have to worry about the whole singular-plural parallelism concept in the same sentence (usually).
  3. I checked the test and the correct answer is indeed 'D'.