<p>Because they painted scenes of life as ordinary people lived it, ranther than scenes from myths, many nineteenth-century American artists differed from earlier times.</p>
<p>ok, besides the obvious comparison error, i think there's another error. i did a search on this problem and people seemed to say that "it" can modify "life," but i'm pretty sure you can't use a pronoun to refer to a object of preposition. in this case, it would refer to "scenes" and that would make the sentence wrong wouldn't it? </p>
<p>pg. 610 #7</p>
<p>Whether the ancient Egyptians actually sailed or did not to South America remains uncertain, but Heyerdahl's Ra II expedition demonstrated that they could have done so. </p>
<p>a) "
d) That the ancient egyptians actually sailed</p>
<p>I got rid of the 3 answers that were obviously wrong... but what kind of error is this exactly? would it just be an idiom error? I put no error, but the answer was actually D... can anyone explain? </p>
<p>"ok, besides the obvious comparison error, i think there's another error. i did a search on this problem and people seemed to say that "it" can modify "life," but i'm pretty sure you can't use a pronoun to refer to a object of preposition. in this case, it would refer to "scenes" and that would make the sentence wrong wouldn't it? "</p>
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<li>Yes you can. The people of Mars are rich, because it has plenty gold to support its citizens. LOL </li>
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<p>Next,
the original "Whether...or did not" is very unnecessary, whereas the "That...actually sailed" is a noun clause, which is perfect in this case.
if the original was "Whether...sailed", then we have a big problem lol, cuz i think both are correct. but in this "or did not" is too wordy. not wrong,but wordy. no SAT answer =s</p>
<p>i don't know why, but i've had it hammered into my head that you can do that. like with your sentence, it would have to be "the people of mars are rich, because they have plenty of gold to support its citizens"</p>
<p>and can anyone confirm t he wordiness error?</p>
<p>Whos they though? I didnt know about the preposition thing either until now, but I guess it makes sense. </p>
<p>This one is weird. Sinc the sentence says remains uncertain, you don't have to show any uncertainty in the underlined part. So you don't really need a whether.</p>
<p>"they" makes sense, it refers to artists, but i still don't see, even if "it" CAN be used to refer to "life", how "it" wouldn't be ambiguous because there are 3 nouns in that part of the sentence.</p>
<p>Many communities in my state are forming neighborhood watch programs, for it will deter criminals.</p>
<p>c) programs that will deter
d) programs for the deterance of</p>
<p>i got this one right after a 50-50 guess, but i'm not really sure why the answer isn't d. it seems legit, as it just uses a bunch of prespositions and w/o them the sentence would read: "Many communities are forming neighborhood watch programs."</p>
<p>oh, and if anyone would like to join the conversation/shed light on the "it" issue, that would be much appreciated.</p>