<p>@APchemistry Skins isn’t reality tv, not that that matters…</p>
<p>@APChemistry, I had the same issues - all of my favorite examples weren’t applicable to the prompt! I had the photography prompt though.</p>
<p>HEY GUYS! For my essay I wrote about Beowulf and Canterbury tales and said that they are similar to reality shows in that they both embody the ideals and beliefs of their respective times… and then I said that reality shows also reveal the culture, tradition of the modern age and is a continuation of books as a form of entertainment…</p>
<p>IS THIS OFF TOPIC? Lol</p>
<p>wait. *****. i may have read the prompt wrong. i thought it was like: do forms of entertainment that deal with reality hurt or help people? and then i talked about the Scarlet Letter and how Hawthorne made this seem very realistic in order to appeal to the reader and drive his point home (bull-crapped that one… i mean information wise it’s accurate but it makes no sense), american idol and how it makes people believe in themselves, and slumdog millionaire lol</p>
<p>Oh thanks Java now I remember rereading it and putting it :D</p>
<p>@neverstopsmiling, I had the same 2 no errors as you, and only those 2</p>
<p>And for the one someone posted about the actor… it had like three phrases in the beginning before the actual subject was even present, so I was confused the whole time since aren’t these supposed to be somewhat idiomatic? I put no error though, for that one</p>
<p>@supergrover911, I know skins isnt reality tv, but it was the best example i could think of that shows how material on TV can be bad for an audience. I think its a good show but I used it to make an argument. lets hope they dont care</p>
<p>what the hell, am i the only one who’s SAT didn’t have a section on e-books and the essay prompt was about whether pictures are an accurate depiction of reality?</p>
<p>My prompt was about whether photographs depict reality…</p>
<p>Edit: ^haha didn’t even see that.</p>
<p>Hey does someone remember the exact wording of the reality entertainment prompt? I think I might have misread it.
Does anyone know to what extent you have to go off topic to get a 0?</p>
<p>Wait, how is scarlet letter realistic? Werent there like witches and ****? And the guy had a mark on his chest…totally superstition. Anyway, i eeefed up my essay too. Total bs and talked about King’s Speech as not reflecting authentic reality (exaggerations about the king and therapist) but it reflects good values and more bs… good opening and conclusions though.</p>
<p>To deter pests and recover from insect damage, organically grown plants must produce higher levels of antioxidants than do conventionally grown, pesticide treated plants.</p>
<p>I strongly believe its ‘than do.’ On the Jan SAT I only got 1 mc writing wrong, so I know what I’m talking about.</p>
<p>First off, this was the last question in the section, so ‘no error’ seems to be too easy an answer.</p>
<p>But I think the ‘do’ should be eliminated.</p>
<p>Think of this sentence:</p>
<p>‘My mom must run faster than do my uncles’ Thats wrong. It should be</p>
<p>‘My mom must run faster than my uncles.’</p>
<p>How i wish I had the photography prompt so I could write about Jacob iris more effectively…</p>
<p>qwerty, “My mom runs faster than my uncles” is gramatically incorrect because it does not specify that the uncles are running, hence the “do”.</p>
<p>qwerty … its the same as saying than conventionally grown, pesticide treated plants do, which makes sense.</p>
<p>anyone remember pluto?
it was about scientists and the dwarf planet. it was between has been discovered and ,pluto, its discovery was. i picked the latter since the tense didn’t fit for the first one.</p>
<p>*<strong><em>ed up so badly on the essay. If I had the reality T.V prompt I know my score would have been +200 points higher at least. Couldn’t think of ANY examples so I *</em></strong>****ted it and filled up about a page and 1/3. Wrote about stephen hawking and Japanese-american internment and how pictures of both of them don’t necessarily show reality…■■■…im definitely getting a 4</p>
<p>do you guys remember anything for the improving paragraphs?</p>
<p>should it have been delete it from the passage or add something about the differences between the price of used and the price of new cars???</p>
<p>and what about the one with the cost of? i didnt pick the cost of because i thought it had to be costs of since it listed 3 things…ugh idk</p>
<p>@qwerty43 Again, not having taking this test (so people may have copied it here wrong, etc.), I still believe it be be “no error.” </p>
<p>“than do” would be perfectly acceptable for a correctly written comparison.</p>
<p>From TestMagic:
"Correct comparitives:
Cheetahs run faster than do antelopes.</p>
<p>You speak Chinese better than do I.</p>
<p>Jessica is more interested in Computer Science than is Benjamin."</p>
<p>[TestMagic</a> Test Prep](<a href=“http://www.testmagic.com/grammar/explanations/inversion.htm]TestMagic”>http://www.testmagic.com/grammar/explanations/inversion.htm)</p>
<p>ALSO:</p>
<p>From Word Reference:
“‘Than’ can be followed by either a noun phrase or a comparative clause: John is taller than his sister. John is taller than his sister is. There is no important difference. In the preceding example, the verb is the auxiliary ‘is’. If it was an ordinary verb, you would need to introduce auxiliary ‘do’: John eats more than his sister. John eats more than his sister does. This has a less common alternative word order: John eats more than does his sister.”</p>
<p>[A</a> grammar question ‘than + verb’ - WordReference Forums](<a href=“A has more...<than does> B | WordReference Forums”>A has more...<than does> B | WordReference Forums)</p>
<p>And earlier I provided proof that the parallelism in the beginning was correct as it was.</p>