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i forgot about passive - always avoid it. Right the answer is E
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E for me to!
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C or D.
(D)o correct me!
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as cute smiley said, D is passive. as for C, it just didn't follow the parallelism. if you are following the sentence structure, then it should be partly because <subject> <verb>...
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OA is E.

I picked D partly because.......partly because. Isnt that a better parallel structure than partly to .... partly because

can someone please let me know cos this has been bugging me
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whenever you have a choice passive or active always choose active.



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