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o eliminate E: If you substitute E into the original sentence, you get Brent’s cowboy hat looks prettysilly, after all he doesn’t live in the West, which is a runon if youdidn’t spot the runon, and were in a panic, you could have eliminated E anyway, thanks to Cheap Trick sentence initially had to do with New York, and how ridiculous one looks sporting a cowboy hat brings up theWest—new , the directions explicitly instruct you to choosethe answer that best expresses the meaning of the original sentence, so an answer choice that messes with the original meaning should be Trick 3: Cut answer choices that begin with words ending in – often than not, gerunds(words ending in –ing)do not appear in correct answer you apply this trick to the goofy hat example, you can eliminate answer C considering him living in New York cases like this one,ing words are often you read the sentence and have no ideawhich answer choice is right, get rid of the one with a word like Trick 4: Get your A in gearIt