blueviper wrote:
Colombians in 2002 were suffering the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory as well as a recession and a banking crisis.
A. were suffering the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory as well as a recession and a banking crisis.
B. were suffering the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory and a recession and a banking crisis.
C. were suffering the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory, recession, and a banking crisis.
D. suffered the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory as well as a recession and a banking crisis.
E. suffered the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory and a recession and a banking crisis.
A. were suffering the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory as well as a recession and a banking crisis
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Correct - No parallelism error and the tense is maintained from the original sentenceB. were suffering the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory
and a recession and a banking crisis.
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Wrong - Parallelism ErrorC. were suffering the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory, recession, and a banking crisis.
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Changes the intended meaning by removing as well as ( When we use as well as we give more importance to the prior than the latter)D. suffered the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory as well as a recession and a banking crisis.
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No grammatical error. I chose A over D because A is similar to the original sentenceE. suffered the tightening grip of the FARC guerrillas over much of the national territory
and a recession and a banking crisis
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Same as B _________________
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