Ron, reading the thread, I've alreadt understood that the scentence is trying to compare " in no other historical sighting" VS "in its returen of 1910-1991". However, I have another question on the comparision. According to your lecture, if the parallel TAG only have one componen...

Hi, experts: I have a question about " far lighter than" and " far less than". What's the difference between this two? Are both of them correct? When I did this problem, I though we can never use "less" do describe "grams" (IMO grams should be a countable thin...

Hi, experts: Have a question here. If we choose A, then we get: The number...rose.., doubling the increase... How can the "number" double "increase"? I am expecting that "the number" double "another number" .. So when I saw choice B, I replace "that"...

Ron, reading the thread, I've alreadt understood that the scentence is trying to compare " in no other historical sighting" VS "in its returen of 1910-1991". However, I have another question on the comparision. According to your lecture, if the parallel TAG only have one compone...

Hi, instructors: In Manhattan SC guild, chapter 10 odds&ends, there is a session about "comma": Do not use a comma before AND to separate two verbs that have the same subject. Either eliminate the comma or add a subject to the second verb, creating a second main clause. EX:Earl walked ...

Here's what such a sentence would look like, Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, with sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries for their short flights , a permanently orbiting space station will have to generate its own electricity. You are certainly correct that suc...

Hi, instructors: In Manhattan SC guild, chapter 10 odds&ends, there is a session about "comma": Do not use a comma before AND to separate two verbs that have the same subject. Either eliminate the comma or add a subject to the second verb, creating a second main clause. EX:Earl walked...

Here's what such a sentence would look like, Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, with sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries for their short flights , a permanently orbiting space station will have to generate its own electricity. You are certainly correct that suc...

The number (of people flying first class on domestic flights) rose sharply in 1990, doubling the increase of the the previous year. The fact that the number rose sharply (main clause of the sentence) is why the increase in 1990 doubled that from the previous year. That makes mathematical sense, bec...

Hi, experts: I have a question about " far lighter than" and " far less than". What's the difference between this two? Are both of them correct? When I did this problem, I though we can never use "less" do describe "grams" (IMO grams should be a countable thi...

Hi, Instructors: I have a question about option C: C) suggesting that the elephant had descended from an aquatic animal with its trunk originally evolved Besides the error of tense "had descended from ", Is the usage of "with its trunk originally evolved" wrong? The reason is the...

Hi, experts: Learning from a OG problem: 123.She was less successful after she had emigrated to New York compared to her native Germany, ....I will not post the whole question I think you don't like it here.. From the above question, I understand that we should not use "compare" together w...