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The archive's completeness had long been taken for ___.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: granted
The archive's completeness had long been taken for granted. This is the established combination or expression required by the sentence.
Only when researchers examined its acquisition records ___ the gaps become visible.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: did
Only when researchers examined its acquisition records did the gaps become visible. An inverted conditional uses had + subject + past participle. After a fronted negative expression, put an auxiliary before the subject.
Letters from prominent families had been preserved, ___ accounts of casual labour were scarce.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: whereas
Letters from prominent families had been preserved, whereas accounts of casual labour were scarce. This conjunction introduces a full clause expressing contrast.
The imbalance was not evidence that those lives had been any ___ complex.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: less
The imbalance was not evidence that those lives had been any less complex. Use an appropriate degree modifier before a comparative, rather than a quantity determiner for countable nouns.
It reflected, at least in ___, decisions about what was considered worth keeping.
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Correct answer: part
It reflected, at least in part, decisions about what was considered worth keeping. This is the established combination or expression required by the sentence.
The research team proposed that oral accounts ___ added to the collection.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: be
The research team proposed that oral accounts be added to the collection. After a recommendation, demand or requirement, a mandative that-clause can use the base form, including be.
That proposal raised questions as to ___ recollections would be sought first.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: whose
That proposal raised questions as to whose recollections would be sought first. Whose expresses possession and is followed by the noun belonging to someone or something.
___ as we valued the initiative, we recognised that it would involve another act of selection.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Much
Much as we valued the initiative, we recognised that it would involve another act of selection. Much as means although in this concessive construction.
Memories could not simply be treated as ___ they were transparent records of events.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: though
Memories could not simply be treated as though they were transparent records of events. As though introduces a comparison to a supposed or imagined situation.
Nor ___ written documents escape questions about perspective and purpose.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: could
Nor could written documents escape questions about perspective and purpose. An inverted conditional uses had + subject + past participle. After a fronted negative expression, put an auxiliary before the subject.
The aim was therefore to bring sources into ___, rather than assign automatic authority to one form.
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Correct answer: dialogue
The aim was therefore to bring sources into dialogue, rather than assign automatic authority to one form. This is the established combination or expression required by the sentence.
___ acknowledged these limitations, the team designed a more careful interview process.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Having
Having acknowledged these limitations, the team designed a more careful interview process. Having + past participle introduces a completed earlier action with the same subject as the main clause.
Participants retained a say ___ how their accounts would be presented.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: in
Participants retained a say in how their accounts would be presented. This word completes the prepositional pattern in the sentence.
The resulting archive made no ___ to tell every story.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: claim
The resulting archive made no claim to tell every story. This is the established combination or expression required by the sentence.
It did, however, make its own boundaries more ___.
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: apparent
It did, however, make its own boundaries more apparent. An adjective describes a noun or follows a linking verb; an adverb or noun would not fit.
