EASY

1. Some of the many renovations set for Memorial Field in the coming years include building additional seating, improving safety, and the construction of a new varsity athletics center.

(A) and the construction of a new varsity athletics center.
(B) and constructing a new varsity athletics center.
(C) and also the construction of a new varsity athletics center
(D) and a new varsity athletics center
(E) and a new varsity athletics center under construction.

 

This question tests parallelism. All items in a list must be parallel, meaning they must be in the same format grammatically. The original list in (A) is not parallel: the construction does not match building additional seating and improving safety. The last item must be changed to constructing in order to fit the progressive verbs building and improving. Only (B) does this.


HARD

2. Richard is not only a terrific pianist, but also great at playing hockey.

(A) Richard is not only a terrific pianist, but also great at playing hockey.
(B) Richard not only is a terrific pianist, but also is great at playing hockey.
(C) Not only great at playing hockey, Richard also is a terrific pianist.
(D) Richard is not only a terrific pianist, but also a great hockey player.
(E) Also great at playing hockey, Richard is a terrific pianist.

This question tests parallelism. Not only…but also is a case for parallelism, meaning that both things which are compared must be in the same grammatical format. A terrific pianist does not match great at playing hockey because pianist is a noun and playing hockey is a verb/noun. What does match a terrific pianist is a great hockey player. Only (D) does this and is therefore parallel.

3. The philosophical doctrine of Incompatibility posits an inherent irreconcilability among the doctrine of Determinism, in philosophy, which holds that each state of affairs is necessitated by the states of affairs that preceded it and the existence of free will.

A. among the doctrine of Determinism, in philosophy, which holds that each state of affairs is necessitated by the states of affairs that preceded it and the existence of free will
B. between the doctrine of Determinism, holding each state of affairs as necessitated by the states of affairs that preceded it, and the existence of free will
C. in the doctrine of Determinism, which in philosophy holds the idea that each state of affairs is necessitated by the states of affairs preceding, and free will's existence
D. between the doctrine of Determinism, which holds that each state of affairs is necessitated by the states of affairs preceding it, and the existence of free will
E. among the doctrine of Determinism, which holds that each state of affairs may be necessitated by the states of affairs preceding it, and free will existing

Comparison Between Multiple Pronouns

PRONOUN AGREEMENT