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9. Despite entering the courthouse with police escort, the lead attorney and his assistant, manhandled by an aggressive crowd of reporters that bombarded him with questions, was injured seriously enough to warrant immediate medical attention.

Skip the Middlemen (prepositional, modifier and subordinate clauses)

Opening Modifier (Preposition):
Despite entering the courthouse with police escort
Preposition: Despite
Verb Phrase: Entering the courthouse
Corrected: "Despite" requires "Noun Phrase"

Past Participle Modifier:
manhandled by an aggressive crowd of reporters

Relative Pronoun Modifier:
that (relative pronoun) bombarded him (pronoun) with questions
Corrected: Pronoun is ambiguous so repeat the noun, like "The Lawyer"

Find the subject and verb - agree in number, meaning and sense?

Subject: the lead attorney and his assistant
Verb: was injured seriously enough to warrant immediate medical attention

Agree in number? No.
Corrected tense: WERE injured

10. The Diary of Anne Frank tells the true story of a young girl and her family that were hidden during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands by a gentile Dutch couple, though they were eventually discovered.

Pronouns

Main Clause
The Diary of Anne Frank - Subject

Tells - Verb

the true story - object

of a young girl and her family - preposition + connecting conjunction (connects words)

who (relative pronoun/subject) were hidden (verb) - relative clause modifying noun phrase

Deadly Five Pronoun "They" is ambiguous

Modifiers - By a gentile Dutch couple

Carbon monoxide levels in the atmosphere grew by enough of an increased percentage during the twentieth century that it began to trap heat radiating from the Earth, and it caused the average surface temperature to rise.

Carbon monoxide levels - Subject Noun

Grew - Verb

By enough of an increase percentage - Redundancy (increased sufficiently)

That - Relative Pronoun/Modifying Clause

Pronoun

It - Deadly Five - Ambiguous

And - connecting conjunction (subordinate Vs coordinating conjunction)

Subordinate - de-emphasize the second clause and emphasize the main clause

Which - Modifies noun only, not the whole clause

Having lived in Tahiti for several years, where life was slow and relaxed, it was difficult for Paul Gauguin to readjust to the hectic pace of Paris upon returning.

Having - Present Participle Modifier
Where - Relative pronoun modifying place

Though some education experts claim that the low test scores of children in the city can be raised by hiring more teachers and an increase in the amount of funding for textbooks and other supplies, others insist that doing this cannot guarantee any improvement.

Parallelism Marker - And

By hiring more teachers and increasing funding for textbook and other supplies

Pronoun cannot replace verbs/verb phrase, pronouns can only replace nouns. Instead use "so".

17. An economic recession can result from a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.


An economic recession (Subject) can result (Verb)
Preposition modifier - From a lowering of (falling) employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes (causing) people to cut (cutbacks in) consumer spending and starting