<p>In 1508, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon-the same Ponce de Leon who later would seek the fountain of youth-landed on Pureto Rico accompanied by a small force.</p>
<p>someone explain?</p>
<p>would seek sounds weird</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree 'would seek' sounds off.
I'm not sure, but I think it'd be best changed to 'sought'.</p>
<p>It isn't parallel? I think that's the logical explanation.</p>
<p>that's what i was thinking too. my thought was "sought" also, but the book says its E,no error.pg 602</p>
<p>Seems fine to me..? No error?</p>
<p>Edit: I see No Error is indeed the answer.</p>
<p>Glad that I no longer have to do these tests! LOL</p>
<p>I THINK that the word "later" indicates that the action is future tense, so the phrase 'would seek' is grammatically sound.</p>
<p>care to elaborate more?</p>
<p>seems fine to me -- although i feel like 'would later seek' gives it more readibility without changing the meaning</p>
<p>it sounds awkward at first but when you try to put your finger on the error, you can't really find one that also is supported by some grammatical rule...so E</p>
<p>idk, would seek sounds wierd. It should be "who would later seek" i think.</p>
<p>i think it's no error.. nothing's wrong.</p>
<p>oh, cool, i was right?</p>
<p>yeah, the would seek isn't wrong. that's just a normal verb tense.</p>
<p>generally, the writing test does like, the same five things over and over again. if it doesn't fall into one of those categories, it's typically wrong.
here's what i do:
step 1. check for subject verb agreement. (make sure you're looking at the right subject and the right verb)
2. check for parallelism.
3. if the first half of the sentence has a comma after and it's supposed to be describing the second half of the sentence, make sure it's describing the right thing. for example,
looking at the sunset, the view was beautiful. that's wrong because it should say something like, looking at the sunset, the people thought the view was beautiful. the sunset isn't looking, the people are. that's a horrible example, but i just made it up real quickly.
4. make sure that they don't use adjectives instead of adverbs. sometimes they throw in a word i've never heard of, but i can figure out that it's supposed to have a -ly on the end.
5. PREPOSITIONS. if it says towards instead of of or if it says to instead of at... etc, etc.. if these don't come naturally to you, try reading some books, i think that's why i get it so well.. i was an avid reader when i was in like third fourth grade. or try to look them up on google.</p>
<p>there's some more i can't think of right now, but not many.
i know that sometimes i pick something like 'would seek' when i'm not sure.. but when i go back and check, 90% of the time i'm like OHMYGOD, that should say his instead of they, or some random subject-verb error i must have not noticed when working quickly. if it's not one of those things, i think it's usually no error. now sometime those things are harder to spot than others, they do try to trick you.. but i think that usually covers it all.</p>