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1. To take the fifth amendment is refusing to incriminate yourself.
Correct: To take the fifth amendment is
to refuse to incriminate yourself.
Correct: Taking the fifth amendment is
refusing to incriminate yourself.
Your Answer:
2. What she said was her meaning.
Correct: What she said was
what she meant.
Your Answer:
3. Doing well on the GRE means to assure yourself acceptance into a good graduate school.
Correct: Doing well on the GRE means
assuring yourself acceptance into a good graduate school.
Correct: To do well on the GRE means
to assure yourself acceptance into a good graduate school.
Your Answer:
4. Many people mistakenly think that being wealthy is the same thing as to be happy.
Correct: Many people mistakenly think that
being wealthy is the same thing as
being happy.
Correct: Many people mistakenly thing that
to be wealthy is the same thing as
to be happy.
Your Answer:
5. Marrying Major Boundy meant to leave her family and to travel all over the world.
Correct: Marrying Major Boundy meant
leaving her family and traveling all over the world.
Your Answer:
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