<p>Harriet Beecher Stowe was renowned not only in the United States but also in Europe: in Rome she could seldom walk through the streets unrecognized. </p>
<p>A. Europe: in
B. Europe; still, in
C. Europe, not even in
D. Europe, in
E. Europe, including in </p>
<p>this is a question i found on CB, it's not a question from those whacked wannabe testmakers. but i find this question extreme, i have no clue,
can someone shed some light?</p>
<p>It's A...am I right?</p>
<p>Well, I'm pretty sure that you can eliminate answers B, C, and E. Those are obviously wrong (correct me if I'm mistaken), and then you have it narrowed down to answers A and D. At that point, I am of no more help, but my guess would be A if I had to choose.</p>
<p>im pretty sure it's A
Choice D makes it a run-on sentence, and as HiM said, B,C,E can be eliminated easily.
For Choice A, i wouldn't personally write like that, but its the most grammatically correct out of the choices.</p>
<p>A: answer
B: context error
C,D,E: run-on</p>
<p>okay thanks, but why's A correct?</p>
<p>I always learned that colons were always used to introduce a list of items. I understand why the other 4 are wrong, but I don't see why A is correct.</p>
<p>Cliffs Notes explains this well:
"A colon may be used between two independent clauses when the second clause explains or restates the first clause."
Grammar:</a> Uses of the Colon - CliffsNotes</p>
<p>The second clause must directly explain the first for a colon to be appropriate. Otherwise, a semicolon would be a better choice.</p>
<p>It's fo'sho A. D was a second for me but you can't use a comma to link an independent clause.</p>
<p>I got A, just because all the others where really incorrect. I don't like the first answer, but you are suppose to pick the BEST annswer, which is A. I don't like this question though...</p>
<p>yeah A. i don´t like it either.</p>
<p>ooh i see!! thankyou guys!!
especially UHSdebater =D
this is what i saw,and understood in the cliffnote:</p>
<p>Introducing a restatement or explanation
A colon may be used between two independent clauses when the second clause explains or restates the first clause. </p>
<p>The program was an unqualified success: hundreds of people attended.</p>
<p>i think it's A.</p>
<p>it can't be B, because the 'still' would mean it was a contradiction or something.. the sentence doesn't say what it's meant to with the still.
it can't be C because there's no semicolon or colon. the comma doesn't work. plus, if it were that choice, the sentence would later have to say 'could she' not 'she could'.
it can't be D because there's no semicolon.
it can't be E because there's no semicolon.</p>
<p>the first thing i would always check for would be punctuation... like, you can rule so many of those answers out just because a comma doesn't work. if you had a comma, there would have to be a conjunction (like and) which there's not.</p>
<p>yeah, the colon in A might seem weird.. but sometimes a colon functions similarly to a semicolon.. i mean, a semicolon IS a semiCOLON. just, you can definitely tell all the answers with commas are wrong, and the other answer doesn't work because of the still. unless you have some extensive knowledge of colons and know that it doesn't work there, it's usually best to trust the collegeboard knows better than you, and if all the other answers can be ruled out, that's probably the choice.</p>
<p>This is not supposed to be a hard question. You should know that the colon connects the sentence to some other part which basically illustrates a point or idea stated earlier in the body. So the body says that Harriet was renowned not only in the US but also in Europe (colon) (something which should illustrate the aforesaid)
and you go ahead and read that when she walked in Rome she could hardly go unnoticed. aha! makes sense..</p>
<p>To be sure, prove the rest of the choices wrong.
B sets a contrast(still, ...) which you don't need.
C is funnily stupid; it's bulky and makes no sense at all. (for it to make sense you should assume that Rome is a place where one can easily go unrecognized in Europe, which it isn't and even if you think it is you have no right to assume or let subjective opinions affect your answers(that is, of course, unless you wanna miss the question :D)
D is tempting. Hence, the resemblance to the correct answer; yet by using a comma there you create a run-on sentence. And they don't like it, really.
E is perhaps the easiest to be eliminated..."including in Rome"...including what?..give me a break!</p>
<p>This topic is a couple months old :p</p>
<p>Personally, I think the answer should be "Europe; in" - separated by a semicolon, not a colon.</p>
<p>The correct answer is A, and this is standardized English. After a colon, the information is used to elaborate the information before. This looks weird to some and may seem like a run-on sentence, but yes, it is standardized English.</p>
<p>The answer should be A since, it says Europe: in Rome.....since Rome is in europe it is further supporting the sentence. While Europe; in Rome is just wrong, the sentence doesnt even flow. And others are run-ons as mentioned before.</p>
<p>its D,i guess.....i am not good in english,pardon me if i am wrong :(</p>
<p>well,i am wrong :( i also think that the answer is A. i don't even know what run on is :( i hate myself :@</p>
<p>the reason i find this problem hard is because it's really unusual.
i've seen thousands of writing probs, this one doesnt follow the pattern =S
the wrong answers did though,so i guess that count =P</p>