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D it is... regional dialects: "originating from amd perpetuated by" parallel

I sorta agree with Piyush's explanation but its hard to come up with such an explanation when you don't know the correct ans. to begin with. My 2 cents: in A: "distinctively their own" refers to/modifes "forms" no ambiguities. Also "distinctively" acts as an adverb modifying the adjective "own"....eg. "these clothes are definitely mine" in E: "that were distinct and their own" to me is confusing because "that were distinct refers" to "forms" (no problem) but I am not sure whether "their own" refers to "forms" too (atleast there is a room for ambiguity)

AC, this is a perfect eg. of past perfect continuous(had been) vs. simple past (was) As you agree the real contenders are really only A and C. Now lets look at C first and that will help us understand why C is a better choice. The author is trying to emphasize that a particular style of speech was/had been common up until this new Soviet leader broke the rules. So something had started in the past....was being practised in the past and it has now come to an end. We could have squeaked by with a simple past, had the author not mentioned 18 years but when you are using a verb to describe an event that started in past has continued for a specific time period and has gotten over now then use past perfect continuous. A is okish but it doesn't tell you much about several things(cronology), C is able to convey with the use of "had been"

Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else. Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber why is A wrong? isn't use of "which" after "Dickinson" in B incorrect?

why would using an article (in this case I believe "the") in front of novels, make option D correct. I think D is wrong because it changes the meaning because in first part it says the modern feminist derives strength etc. Thoughts?

"that" in E incorrectly modifies home. whereas "that" in D correctly modifies festival.

where is the subject for they in C??...how can that be right

i think it is C....use of including is wrong in other options B is wordy

antidote is a noun.. so it should refer to a noun now let's look at the options: (B) always work; because you don’t think about it or assess it, you just do it always work sounds awkward/ not clear if "work" is used as a noun or a verb/ " it" does not have a clear referent. © always one’s own work: not thinking about or assessing it, but simply to do it "thinking" and "to do" are not parallel. (D) not to think or assess, but doing one’s own work to think ......doing ...not parallel (E) neither to think about one’s own work nor to assess it, it is always simply doing it to think.....doing (not parallel) A) solves above issues. " one's own work" clearly refers to your job (noun). "not thinking about it, not assessing it, but simply doing it" - use of a colon before the sentence correctly tells you that it further elaborates on the profs philosophy

B it is... parallelism. first task to accomplish...is to outline

sorry to be bothering you with so many questions but I will really appreciate if you could help me out... how do you distinguish between a participial phrase and a verb phrase...does putting "travelling ..." in the beginning of the sentence make it a participial phrase? (I think the answer to this in this case is yes)

travelling here modifies began, shows how they began their pioneering work. I'll try to explain this better later on began??? I thought it should modify a noun or noun phrase. Anyways I will look forward to your explanation. 2.you can normally put it in front of the subject but not in this case because the sentence starts with participal modifier and has to be followed by the subject to correctly modify it. good ..I thought so...I got it Thanks

C is the right ans. Thanks metodiev for the explanation. I guess I have two last questions: 1. why doesn't "travelling" in option C modify ethnomusicology which is placed just next to it. In which case the sentence would be incorrect. What is the rule here? 2. In option A, is use of "in 1905" just before Bela Bartok", which is the subject, unacceptable

An unusually strong cyclist it is hoped...is wrong hence A use of hopefully is wrong

use of they/their is wrong in all options except E. army is singular