Tham khảo tài liệu 'forming comparisions 2', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 238 Part V Writing with Style_ m Robert who is actually quite honest and not inclined to rob anyone nevertheless thinks about crime and fashion. The original sentence links a plain-vanilla-no-sprinkles description honest with an -ing verb form not having the inclination to rob anyone . No sale. The answer matches two descriptions honest and inclined. n He once wrote and edited a newsletter called Crimes of Fashion. The answer matches two past tense verbs wrote and edited. The original matched a past wrote and a past perfect had edited without any valid reason for a different tense so it wasn t parallel. o To ski and to pursue a career in law enforcement are Robert s dreams. Pair two infinitives to ski and to pursue and you re fine. Or pair skiing and pursuing for an alternate correct answer. p If you ve studied biology you know that a person must learn the names of hundreds if not thousands of organisms. The original sentence shifts from anyone third person to you second person . The correction stays in second. Another possible fix pairs anyone with he or she knows all third-person forms. q correct. Two questions. No shifts no problem. r The Amoeba Family provides a good example of the process so I will explain its name. The original sentence shifts unnecessarily from active provides to passive will be explained . The corrected sentence stays in active voice. True it contains a shift from third person talking about the Amoeba Family to first but that shift is justified by meaning. s You may not know that the first example of this single-celled organism was named Amy. The original sentence shifts inappropriately from present tense may not know to conditional would have . The tenses in the correction make more sense the first part is present and the second past because you may not know right now about something that happened previously. The shift is there but it s justified by meaning. .
