3. printing campus news is the object
being compared with the hometown
campus news vs. hometown news
sounds like hometown is printing campus news
as it does
unclear
as does
does not print
as long as the helping verb matches
as long as its clear
4. pronoun check for it
they/it
they can be the potatoes or barrels too
antecedent
you look for the plural words
the it is being blocked
they were blocking the highway
you dont need the they
the whole action of the potatoes blocking over
passive vs. active
that the highway was blocked
6. try to identify the subject
reasons
you dont need the part "the students give for failing to participate in the political process."
they try to put as much unnecessary words as possible to confuse you
is is just not going to work
student = they
"are that"
demanding assignments & they work at
the problem on B is that they don't match
8. dangling participle or dangling modifier
driving too fast, my car spun off the highway.
look for the first noun that comes up after the comma
that descriptive phrase should......closest noun
"returning" and "small town"
located wrong position
so thats okay
9. having command & George Eliot
dont use noun noun and then yeahh...
parallelism
no both when you add 3 things
if you see the word because,it is a good choice
11. it takes time to see what its about
a corporation
the subject
the corporation is dependent on the government
for business and information
and the universities supply the corporation
12. disintegrates is the problem
the mission was ended when it integrated
13. the labor union is doing something
that is the contract
and the contract will satisfy the
the be acceptable has to match the contract
14. either or
and
15. invaluable doesn't mean that it isn't valuable
it means VERY VERY valuable
antecedent of it
it is referring to shards
for every pronoun check the antecedent
16. one of a kind= unique
the only on of that kind
its kind
thats a different expression from one of a kind