Sentence Correction Guide Problems

[RobertS667]

Hi,

I worked through your Sentence Correction guide and wasn’t so sure about three of your solutions in the book.

1) Nr. 4 (p.174): After many years of difficult negotiations, a deal has been reached that will lower tariffs and end many subsidies, potentially changing the lives of millions of people in both the developed and the developing world.

In the given sentence why does the modifier beginning with potentially have to modify the verbs tariffs and end? My thought was that it could also modify deal and I could set it up to a parallel modifier e.g. deal has been reached that will lower tariffs and end many subsidies, and potentially will change...

My reference is the noun modifier placement rule on page 167: "It is fine to set a modifier not directly next to the noun, if it is part of a series of parallel modifiers, one of which touches the noun. The short predicate falls in-between the noun deal and the first modifier, which is fine and two parallel modifiers follow.

2) Although we were sitting in the bleachers, the baseball game was as exciting to us as to the people sitting behind home plate.

Comparison –Modifier AS X AS Y. Why needn’t the word exciting have to be repeated after the second as? The second phrase would not make sense with the root phrase without exciting: Although we were sitting in the bleachers, the baseball game was to people sitting behind home plat =>missing verb


3) The athlete enjoyed lifting weights more than running around the track.
Why is the following construction with infinitive forms wrong? The athlete enjoyed to lift weights more than to run around the track. The solutions are that the elements would not work by itself with the root phrase for example The athlete enjoyed to run around the track.

If you need the page number of the last two problems just let me know and I'll try to find them.

In advance thanks a lot for your help.

Regards,
Robert

[RonPurewal]

hi,
there are separate folders for questions concerning MPrep materials -- one folder for CAT exam items, and one folder for everything else.

please re-post this question in the appropriate folder. thank you.