1) When the parents of a man or woman haven’t voted in their lifetimes, then their child is not as likely to vote than they would be if he or she had been brought up in a household where the parents always vote.

Parents who have never voted are more likely to have children that refrain from voting.

2) If your parents or the head of the household in which you were raised are voters, you are far more likely to vote.

Parents or head of households are likely to pass down their habit of voting to their children.

3) As genetic testing has demonstrated many times, residents of death row often spend the rest of their lives there for crimes they may or may not have committed.

Residents of death row can spend their lives in jail for a crime they may not have committed.

4) Harvard is considered to be as difficult to get into if not more difficult as Yale.

Harvard is as difficult to get into as Yale.

5) Admissions officers are more likely to admit students who look like the majority of the student body even when they don’t appear to be prejudiced in other ways.

Admission officers are more likely to admit students of the majority.

6) My parole officer is one of those kinds of people where if I don’t show up for an appointment he always suspects me of doing something that violates the terms of my parole.

My parole officer suspects that I am violating my terms when I don’t show up for an appointment.

7) The only kind of person who won’t buy this car is the kind that doesn’t understand that the car costs more to buy but that the savings in gas will make up for the higher cost in less than a year.

Someone who won’t buy this car doesn’t understand about the gas savings that will make up for the higher cost in less than a year.

8) There is a tendency among children who have suffered from being abused when they were young to be more likely to abuse their own children when they have them later in life.

Adults who suffered abuse as children are more often to abuse their own children.

9) By getting better mileage than cars that run on gasoline only, cars that can switch from gas to electric when conditions permit it have been created to help drivers save money.

Cars that switch from gas to electric have been created to help drivers save money instead of cars that run on gasoline alone.

10) With their ability to run on gas or electricity depending on traffic conditions, drivers shopping for a new car have to decide between hybrids and cars with conventional engines.

People should drive a car that can switch from gasoline to electricity.

11) Who wouldn’t prefer to drive a car that can switch from gasoline to electricity when conditions permit?

There is no explanation why someone wouldn’t prefer to drive an electric car.