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  • Question 1
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    Traveling from the United States to Europe by plane is faster than to travel by ship.

    Choose the option that best corrects the underlined phrase.
    Solution
    The comparison is between 'traveling by plane' and 'traveling by ship', whereas the underlined phrase is 'to travel by ship.' 'to travel' is not in the same form as 'traveling'. This is an error, hence, we need to correct it. Option A is, thus, incorrect. The construction of the phrases which are being compared need to be the same, so we use option D, which has the same structure in 'traveling by ship' as in the phrase 'Traveling...by plane'. Options B and C have demonstratives 'that' and 'those' which are used to modify nouns. Since these options modify the gerund 'traveling' (verb form ending in '-ing'), and they don't modify nouns, they're incorrect.
  • Question 2
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    Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words:
    The author thought that writing novels was more lucrative than writing poetry.
    Solution
    When two things are compared, their phrases should be of the same grammatical structure. Option A is correct because the underlined phrase "writing poetry" is consistent in structure to the former phrase "writing novels", hence no change is needed. Option B is incorrect because it's a single word that does not indicate the required action 'writing'. Demonstratives like 'that' modify nouns that have been mentioned before. They don't modify gerunds. Option C is incorrect because the demonstrative modifies the gerund 'writing'. The phrase "written poetry" in option D is inconsistent with the phrase "writing novels" in terms of its grammatical structure, hence D is incorrect.
  • Question 3
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    Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point:
    The chocolate tastes sweetly.
    Solution
    Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. The underlined word is an adverb that modifies the noun 'chocolate'. Adverbs don't modify nouns, adjectives do, hence option D is incorrect. Option A is correct because the word is an adjective which describes the noun 'chocolate'. Option B is incorrect because it's a superlative and in order to use a superlative, the article 'the' should precede it. Option C is incorrect because the word 'sweets' itself is a noun which can't modify any other word.
  • Question 4
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    Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point:
    The kind of fruit gets ripened quickly.
    Solution
    A demonstrative adjective like this or that helps indicate a noun or a pronoun in the sentence. It clearly explains which person or a thing you are talking about. 'This' is used for a singular noun that is nearby or current. Thus, option A is the correct answer. 
  • Question 5
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    Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words:
    Nate decided that visiting his cousins would be more entertaining than a film on his own.
    Solution
    The underlined phrase is incomplete in meaning. It needs to be changed, hence option A is incorrect. Option B is grammatically incorrect since one can't visit a film, but the place where the film is being run. Option C is correct because it is parallel in its structure to that of the former phrase (visiting his cousins and watching a film). Option D is incorrect because it does not run parallel in structure to the former phrase.
  • Question 6
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    Choose the option that best corrects the underlined word:
    Lisa thought her children were better at science than they were at language.
    Solution
    When two phrases are compared with each other, they ought to be of the same grammatical structure. The phrase "they were at language" is consistent to the structure of the phrase "children were better at science", where 'they' modifies the noun 'children' and 'better' is omitted because it's used as a comparative between the phrases. No change needs to be made hence option A is correct. Option B is grammatically incorrect (as one can't do a language). Option C is not parallel in structure to that of the phrase "children were better at science". 'That' is a demonstrative that modifies a noun previously mentioned, since it does not modify any noun here but replaces the phrase "they were at", it's grammatically incorrect hence option D is incorrect.
  • Question 7
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    Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words:
    When at the office, Jim prefers to order lunch from a nearby restaurant than a home-cooked lunch.
    Solution
    Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more words or ideas are of equal importance. Words in the parallel structure should not only have the same structure but also tense. In the given sentence, two clauses are connected with a word of comparison i.e. than. Thus, option D is the correct answer per rule. 
  • Question 8
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    Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words:
    Though she lives in New York, Jane prefers living in small towns to big cities.
    Solution
    The comparison is to be between living in 'small towns' and 'big cities', not between 'living in small towns' and 'big cities'. Since the structure of the underlined phrase does not correspond to the former phrase, we need to change it. Hence Option A is incorrect. Option C has the correct phrase which corresponds to the structure of the former phrase. Options B and D both have demonstrative nouns which are not parallel with the structure of the first phrase in comparison, hence they're incorrect.
  • Question 9
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    Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words:
    The child felt that doing mathematical problems was more interesting than scientific experiments.
    Solution
    The underlined phrase isn't parallel to the form of the phrase 'doing mathematical problems'. It requires to be corrected. Hence option A is incorrect. Option B is correct because it contains the correct grammatical structure Gerund + Adjective + Noun. Option C is incorrect because it contains a demonstrative instead of a gerund. Option D is incorrect because it  does not include the required gerund as well as noun.
  • Question 10
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    Choose the option that best corrects the underlined words:
    These days, Mexican food is as popular as Japanese food in the country.
    Solution
    Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more words or ideas are of equal importance. Words in the parallel structure should not only have the same structure but also tense. In the given sentence, two different cuisines are compared. Thus, option D is the correct answer as the given sentence is grammatically correct. 
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