<p>Interficio, since you posted in the International thread I take it that you didn’t do the US January paper (which is what they’re discussing here). :p</p>
<p>OOH, I did do the US version, but seeing as I’m a newbie to the technical details most kids my age shouldn’t worry about, I’m assuming there’s a difference between national and international versions… LOL.</p>
<p>@magic12</p>
<p>The sentence was something very similar to “Coffee tastes bitterly and gives off a burned smell when heated for too long.”</p>
<p>I chose bitterly as the error. Using the adjective “bitter” to describe the coffee is more gramatically correct than using the adverb “bitterly” to modify tastes, because the coffee isn’t actually tasting anything. </p>
<p>Gramatically, when we say how a food item tastes, we use an adjective and not an adverb. For example, “My fish tastes good tonight.”</p>
<p>Yeah ^^ there were two sentences I recall in the whole writing (all sections) that used an adverb were an adjective was more appropriate. It should’ve been bitter. LOL "My fish tastes well tonight = indicates a fish is very adept at tasting things himself)</p>
<p>Uh oh, I don’t remember the other or. Do you recall the exact wording?</p>
<p>Ah, yes. Tastes in this context is a linking verb, not an action verb; thus, the PA should be an adj, not an adv</p>
<p>okay was the “little or no” question and the “pizzas like those” in the experimental or the real?</p>
<p>Little or no was correct, that was No Error. That was not experimental.</p>
<p>how about the pizzas like those?</p>
<p>Haha jeez man I was just trying to help…</p>
<p>I was under the impression that different papers were used because loads of Nov 2008 US sections were used for the International one this month (btw I’m an international student). Wasn’t trying to mislead you or anything, sorry about that.</p>
<p>No need to be all stinging and crap, bud.</p>
<p>^^ 4D are you talking to me? LOL, I don’t think I was stinging at all. That certainly wasn’t my attention. I appreciate you clarifying. I was more embarrassed of myself than anything. My whole newbie spiel (sp) was just a quirky little aside! LOL.</p>
<p>THere was a question about “delicious”, what did u guys put?</p>
<p>^ If it was about taste, it should remain delicious and not deliciously</p>
<p>yes that is what i put</p>
<p>my only concern is the question that talked about how many people ride bicycles which was placed in a completely irrelevant place. Earlier people were saying it should be deleted completely, but I put that it should be placed as the beginning of the passage.</p>
<p>I’m pretty confident it should have been deleted completely, since the sentence was something like “Over 1,000,000 bicycles are now sold every year” and the rest of the paragraph was about women riding bicycles centuries ago. It just wouldn’t have worked as an introduction, since it would have led into a totally different topic.</p>
<p>Oh well, Interficio. -1 should still be 800.</p>
<p>i say delete, the passage was about bicycles in relation to women,</p>
<p>LOL, I’m not that obsessed about the 800. But I felt that if it went at the beginning it would convey the sense of “A lot of people have bicycles nowaday, however this did not use to be the case, and the increase in bicycle usage even led to some social changes.” It doesnt really go with the woman’s rights thing, but it wasn’t all about woman’s rights either. It talked about safety changes also, so it’s not completely irrelevant.</p>
<p>yeah, you have to delete it.
it was just odd. a semicolon wouldn’t fix the brute oddness manifested in the paragraph. :D</p>
<p>yeah, don’t worry. i’m the one who thought about the English Channel/Chunnel one geographically. ■■■ for connecting concepts.</p>
<p>If I could see the passage again I could justify… was it an adapted one? Do you think I could find it online?</p>