languid
Definition: (adjective) without energy; slow, sluggish, listless.
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Problem
A palindrome is a positive integer that reads the same forward as it does backwards. If neither the first nor last digit of a palindrome can be zero, how many three-digit palindromes are there?
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SAT: Sentence Improvement Question #3 |
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Question:
Alexander Pushkin, one of Russia 's great poets, had a great-grandfather who rose from slavery to becoming a Russian general and favorite advisor of Czar Peter the Great .
Choices:
The original is incorrect because an infinitive must follow the verb rose. (C) would be correct usage only if a comma separated it from the first clause of the sentence. Without the comma, it forms a run-on sentence. (D) is incorrect because of incorrect parallelism; it equates the noun slavery with the verb being. (E) is incorrect because it changes the emphasis of the sentence, indicating that some information is missing.
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