<p>Writing curves are always really good. Last year my brother got 2 wrong and an 11 on the essay and got an 800.</p>
<p>did you guys put “never before have/had been” or “never before having been”</p>
<p>never before having been</p>
<p>No its Never had they been</p>
<p>what about something like “campaigned about increase…” I thought it should’ve been campaigned to increase</p>
<p>I thought it was “having been” because it was like “Never had they been in such a big museum, they …” so I thought having been connects the fragments</p>
<p>for the essay did you have to CONTRAST practical and idealist…i just talked about idealistic…shoot.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you could just talk about idealistic. I don’t think SAT essays have to be that logical haha. Seriously, 25 minutes is not a lot of time…</p>
<p>It’s having been. It connects the sentences.</p>
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<p><em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>And for that “had they been” and “having been” question, I’d say it’s “having been” based on what I’ve read. If you put “had they been,” you’d need a semicolon to connect the 2 independent clauses.</p>
<p>I mean not really contrast, but like discuss practical? like i just said the idealistic is more valuable?</p>
<p>@kebalken </p>
<p>Its an inverted sentence structure.</p>
<p>haha i just talked about how idealist is always bad and examples of that</p>
<p>i know! i was in panic mode trying to finish that thing.</p>
<p>So you ONLY talked about the side you supported?</p>
<p>You need a -ing to connect to independent clauses without a conjunction, except for some cases. in this case had they been doesn’t work.</p>
<p>did you guys put that “campaigned about increase the awareness blah blah” was right?</p>
<p>and its “provide resources TO students and photographers” not provides resources FOR them right?</p>
<p>Never had they been in a museum, they had no idea what to do around there.</p>
<p>Something like that.</p>
<p>Anyone know the answer to the “little or no” harmful effect of watching TV (videogames)? People I know have either put that or No Error.</p>
<p>@violinplayer - yeah that sentence makes no grammatical sense. think of it like" they had no idea what to do, never having been in a museum. "</p>