<p>Ok, so thath's a question from the blue book and something feels odd in the right answer, i'd be happy if someone could explain.</p>
<p>Original : For the most part, in the actions of how an animal behaves, instinc is the main determinant.</p>
<p>correct: An animal's actions are largely determined by instinct.</p>
<p>seems kinda correct (why not?): Animals mainly have their instincs as a determinant for behavior.</p>
<p>Now the question about the correct one, isn't the "An" going for the plural "Actions" and not for the singular "Animal's" seems like the subject is about the actions and not about a specific animal.</p>
<p>If any one could explain that, i'd be happy.
Thanks in advance! :)</p>
<p>I’m sorry… I don’t get you… what are you asking about again? lol… you can just tell me which pg and #</p>
<p>Page 924 question 4, correct answer is D.
My question is why does it start with an “An” in the beginning of the sentence, it seems like its supposed to be plural.</p>
<p>Oh I didn’t check it… Your question is clearer now…</p>
<p>Of course “An” makes sense… think of it in this manner…</p>
<p>One animal can have many actions… Just like you, Tomer, are probably typing, eating, listening to music, etc…
You’re one person, but you are performing a lot of actions.
So, in turn all your actions are driven by those instincts…</p>
<p>so we can say Tomer’s actions are driven by his instincts…</p>
<p>Tomer is singular… If we replace him with “A boy”… as in “a boy’s actions are driven by his instincts”… “A” here is perfectly correctly modifying the boy… whose actions in turn are driven by his instinct…</p>
<p>Same scenario over here… even the original sentence is trying to say ( in a very awkward way) that an animal’s actions are driven by its instinct. </p>
<p>One animal has actions… those actions are driven by that animal’s instinct…
so,</p>
<p>An animal’s actions are determined by instinct.</p>
<p>You are correct that the subject is supposed to be plural, and it is “actions” is plural , but “an” here goes back to the animal which is here to modify what our subject ( the actions) belong to</p>
<p>Got it?!
Hope that helped a lil… and I didn’t entirely confuse you… lol</p>
<p>Well thath’s what I thought at 1st that it is a single animal, so the “An” is used correctly, but when I started over-thinking it seemed weird because there’s a plural issue.
Does the sat even test a correct use of A/An? If it doesn’t test it then I can automatically assume its ok and since there aren’t any other issues then I could peacefully choose that answer hehe :P</p>
<p>You can think of it that way… At least I find it very inefficient to stress over whether they’ll test about a specific rule in grammar or sth… I dunno…</p>
<p>and DON’T OVER THINK IT… srsly… it backfires… I know a friend who used to get a lot i\of mistakes mainly because he used to over think every question, when it should be “no error” all along… When he tried to work a lil faster and go with his “hunch” sometimes… his score increased dramatically…</p>
<p>My advice to you is, if you think you tend to over think in the entire section, try to go a lil faster in prac and see if your score increases, and if your mistakes are still due to over thinking or what… (but not fast enough for mistakes cuz of hastiness 
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<p>Wordiness 10char ;)</p>