2 ident. sentence error questions..

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<li>No one objects to his company, even though he has made insulting remarks about almost every member of the group, when he is a remarkably witty man.</li>
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<p>The error here is "group, when"... anyone explain this to me? What kind of rule does this fall under?</p>

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<li>The new system, which uses remote cameras in the catching of speeding motorists, may undermine the police department’s authority. </li>
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<p>The error here is "in the catching of"... ditto to my comment above.</p>

<p>Thanks for any responses... im looking to crack at least 700 on writing.. assuming i can bump my 750 in math to a 800..</p>

<p>btw, im new to this forum, is there a specific thread that answers these kind of questions?</p>

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<p>This is the correct thread for SAT questions.

  1. “when” is not used properly in the sentence. I believe that’s covered under the whole idiom rule, but I could be wrong.
  2. “in the catching of” should be replaced with “to catch.” the original way is just too wordy and unnecessary. There may be another rule to justify this but that’s how I feel.
    Anyway, If u just remember the 14ish generalized rules of english, you should have no problem breaking 700. Best of luck. :)</p>
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<p>what 14 generalized rules are you talking about?</p>

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<p>Verb tense, subject-verb agrement, pronouns, parallelism, modifiers, comparisons, idioms, number and logical comparisons, diction, conjunctions, “neither/nor, either/or,” inverted structure,“there” phrases, verb form, etc. That’s pretty much the gist of what the test covers. Familiarize yourself with each type and recognize the tricks that collegeboard tries to sneak in to each one.</p>

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<p>What resource did you learn these rules from?</p>

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<p>I have a book from an SAT prep class. We pretty much learned a rule, practiced several correction questions related to that rule, and then at the end integrated every type together. It was very helpful. If you can address which rule of English is incorrectly used, then you should be able to easily justify your answer with minimal or no error.</p>

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<p>^^ is it similar to sparknotes seven deadly screw ups? cuase im mainly using that to study off of for sentence id. questions.</p>

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<p>Yes it’s pretty much the same. Sparknotes really goes to town in it’s descriptions for each. Those tend to be the trickiest rule where most people make their mistakes. And diction is the same thing as SN’s soundalikes. </p>

<p>Im still bitter about my writing score. 80 mc… 8 essay(sigh)
if only I had gotten a 10… Woulda had an 800 :(</p>

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<p>Do you reccomend any good books for the writing section, because my score is stuck at around 650?</p>

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<p>Do you mean SAT prep books?
If you don’t own it yet, the official CB book (Aka bluebook) is the best overall because there are 8 full exams from the actual makers of the test.
I have also heard people say that the rocket review revolution book is good for the writing/CR, cuz it covers the main points that I just mentioned individually. However it’s not official and the math section is allegedly bad. I’ve never actually used RRR, just telling you what others have said.</p>

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<li>It’s idiomatic to say “use X to [verb here”</li>
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<p>i.e. He used a weapon to attack.
The man uses a condom to protect.</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>No one objects to his company, even though he has made insulting remarks about almost every member of the group, ** when** he is a remarkably witty man. </p>

<p>I think it is incorrect to use “when” here because “when” refers to period of time, so “since” is appropriate here.</p>

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<p>^ I think “because” works as well, or “for”, which is synomous with “since”.</p>