<p>I thought it was B. Where did these questions came from? Doesn't seem official to me.</p>
<p>B. 10 chars.</p>
<p>Dear Peteyflow, not pretending to be an english genius or anything but, U need to use the Process of elimination. Eliminate all answers that sound wierd and then make an educated guess. U'll be suprised at how many u can get right. </p>
<p>For example in Question #1 (A), (D) and (E) don't really work grammatically.</p>
<p>Now (B) and (C) are left. Ive often hear stuff like any candies, any toys, any games...so I assumed any ppl was correct.</p>
<p>I dunno if I helped but I hope so. :)</p>
<p>where did these questions come from?</p>
<p>I think the answer is (A). Look (D) cant be the answer coz it has two negatives. It dusnt make sense if u say e.g. I havnt never been to Paris. U have to say I hav never been to Paris or I havnt ever been to Paris. </p>
<p>I dun think (B) is the answer coz it would need to have the word BEFORE at the end to sound correct. (E) is erroneous coz beforehand and heretofore mean the same thing. Wats the correct ans??
Btw Peteyflow how do u underline the sentences coz I was unable to do it when I tried</p>
<p>I think it's A and am sure about it. kk
Let's use the process of elimination. Let's leave A -- it looks good to me.
B is completely wrong, because when there is "with which", why another with at the end of the sentence?
C is wrong. It's not a proper relative clause. There's no subject.
D is wrong. I agree with Humna's explanation (blah blah Paris).
E is wrong. It looks same as C. Even it doesn't look good. You don't see these kind of sentences anywhere.
Hope it helps.</p>
<p>xitammarg: I have a strong feeling that CB wouldn't test this. Funny how we always know when to get suspicious of questions!</p>
<p>I got a 780 on Writing and I still am not totally sure about this question, but:</p>
<p>3.) When the students take a trip on the intracoastal waterway system next month, they will learn facts with which they have heretofore been unacquainted.</p>
<p>A) facts with which they have heretofore been unacquainted
B) facts with which they haven't been acquainted with
C) facts, being, heretofore, unacquainted with them
D) facts with which they haven't never been acquainted
E) facts, being unacquainted with them heretofore beforehand</p>
<p>C, D, and E are all incorrect. C has far too many commas to be the BEST CHOICE, D has a double negative, and E is unnecessarily jumbled. I would say B is also incorrect because it has "with" after acquainted, although it seems unnecessary since with already appears and serves its purpose earlier in the clause. A, therefore, looks best.</p>
<p>By the way, if I'd seen this on a test, I'd note that the original format is grammatically correct, circle A, and move on.</p>
<p>peteyflow:</p>
<p>Let's take a look at the choices. </p>
<p>B is removed immediately as it contains an extra 'with' at the end and destroys the structure. </p>
<p>D is removed shortly after considering it has a double negative. "Have not never" makes no sense. </p>
<p>Then E is removed. "Heretofore beforehand" is awkward and the way it modifies 'facts' in unnecessary. Remember over-use of commas should be suspicious</p>
<p>C is definitely ackward. As I said, something is wrong when four commas are used to create the sentence. </p>
<p>The answer should be A</p>
<p>By the way, this question is not CB-like. If one wants a 800 on the Writing section, one needs to use CB questions to avoid mistakes made by outside companies</p>
<p>brand_182:</p>
<p>We had the exact same approach. Nice.</p>
<p>haha yeah I noticed that too. Great minds... ;)</p>
<p>Peteyflow, why don't you just tell us the answer and ask for an explanation, or why don't you use a question that showed up before. The answer is A. </p>
<p>Humna: I dun think (B) is the answer coz it would need to have the word BEFORE at the end to sound correct. Oh dear! "facts with which they haven't been acquainted with before" is just taking a mistake and adding another mistake to it! If you haven't been acquainted with something, why would you need the word "before"? </p>
<p>peteyflow: the answer would be B if you didn't include "with" at the end. Did you make a typo?</p>
<p>Clearly, we are helping you, because the people who know how to do the problem are all saying it's A!</p>
<p>brand_182: I've heard that marking A (Without reading the rest) could be dangerous considering a better answer could exist. Has that appraoch ever given you problems? I myself used the approach and it worked well. It especially increased my pace.</p>
<p>No. For the SAT/ACT tests I've taken, there always exists one answer choice that is grammatically correct and the others have something that makes them incorrect. Were it not the case, the answer would become a matter of preference and then two choices would technically be correct. Now if you have the time and are uncertain as to whether A is right, certainly do as we have here and find the flaw in the other choices. If you're strapped for time and confident that A contains no flaw, you can rest assured that there will not be another answer that is also grammatically correct.</p>
<p>What is actually the difference between "likely" and "liable" ????</p>
<p>okay the answer is A! you guys are actually helping me out thanks! thats why i love cc</p>
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<p>4.) The father angrily told his daughter that smoking had not, and never will be, permitted in their home.</p>
<p>A) smoking had not, and never will be,
B) smoking, not having been permitted, never will be
C) smoking had not, and never could be,
D) smoking had not been, and never would be,
E) smoking, not having been permitted, never would be</p>
<p>(P.S: The answer is D! Why? Can WRITING GENIUS explain to me how you get D? WHY!)</p>
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<p>5). The effects of being in love are not only apparent in a person's behavior and appearance, but it has an intangible influence on the person's outlook.</p>
<p>A) it has an
B) as well in the
C) also have an
D) also an
E) in the way of having an</p>
<p>(P.S: Okay, I don't know if I'm retarded or not, but I got it wrong when I went over this problem. I know the answer, but what would you choose? And explain it to me why you would choose that answer.)</p>
<p>i just wanted to point out a couple of things--</p>
<p>1) it's totally possible to have an Improving Sentences question in which every single answer choice is grammatically correct and your job is to pick the one that sounds the best to the SAT. in such a situation, which comes up all the time, you'll have to rely on knowing which stylistic things the SAT rewards and which it punishes. an example of such a question appears on item 1, page 413 of the blue book.</p>
<p>2) these questions aren't CB questions, and studying them is only going to help a tiny bit, if at all. if you want to get better at SAT writing questions, you need to practice with SAT writing questions.</p>
<p>3) the answer to 4 is (d). the correct answer needs two things: a form of "be" for each verb phrase, and a past-tense version of "will be." you need to have a form of "be" in each verb phrase because without it the sentence is illogical. so (a) can't be right, because we only see "had not," instead of "had not been." the way (a) is written, the verb phrase "had not be" would have to be acceptable ("had not, and never will be" is an improperly formed parallel construction). (c) is wrong for the same reason. "would" has to be present instead of "will" because "would" is the past tense of the modal verb "will," and the sentence takes place in the past (we know this from the verb "told," which governs the entire phrase we're working with in this sentence). that makes (b) wrong. (e) is potentially wrong for a variety of reasons. if we knew this were a real SAT question (which seems unlikely given the company it's keeping), we'd know to avoid the "-ing" in "having been." on a more grammatical level, this sentence says only that smoking was not permitted at the time the father spoke to the daughter; we probably want a sentence that says, emphatically, that there was absolutely never a time when smoing had been allowed in the home, and that's not (e).</p>
<p>4) question 5 has no answer, from an SAT writing standpoint. an SAT writing question woud require a "not only . . . but also" construction, and it would also require a parallel usage of the preposition "in." that means the correct sentence would have to read " . . . not only apparent in . . . but also in . . .", and none of these answer choices does that. i'm gonna guess that the book says either (b) or (c) is correct, but that wouldn't be true on a real SAT test:</p>
<p>(b) can't be "SAT-correct" because we don't see the construction "not only . . . but as well . . . " on the SAT. </p>
<p>(c) isn't grammatically correct because you'd need the "not only" phrase to come before the "are" in the original sentence, and it doesn't.</p>
<p>wait so only blue book would help me?</p>