<p>was there a question where you had to change “one” to “you” and another where you had to say “I aprreciated…”(the answer choice had an I in it and it was in the passage bout the trash and stuff"</p>
<p>But I thought glared was a negative connotation where it was clearly supposed to be positive?</p>
<p>I remember… i think I put both glared for one and shining for the other. And @ eagles yeah I chose “I” for one.</p>
<p>^Yes, shining was required because it had a gerundial phrase and shining was the only option that would function as a gerund.</p>
<p>It was glared, positive. Shone is the past form.</p>
<p>K now I’m confused.</p>
<p>@ACT, i understand who you mean but “shone” just sounded weird to me.</p>
<p>@mayday, are you refering to “both” as in my answers? haha little confused</p>
<p>Eagles, I put both of your answers.</p>
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<p>If that is your basis for picking your answers, I highly doubt you did well in this section. I’m just going off what I read on silverturtle’s grammar guide.</p>
<p>I put glared.</p>
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Umm… how so?</p>
<p>“Glared” definitely was the right answer. Completely wrong tone.</p>
<p>well in that case good for you, i hope you are learning a great deal about grammar from that guide.</p>
<p>@ Eagles I was saying "both"to what ACTTester said about glared and shining.
I was saying that I put “I” for one in response to you</p>
<p>OK I remember the issue with the whiff/aroma question now.</p>
<p>The sentence was “The air had a ______ of garbage/negative/whatever”</p>
<p>“Whiff” CANNOT be used in that sentence because the air itself cannot possess a “whiff”, but it CAN possess an aroma, odor, or (whatever the 4th choice was).</p>
<p>About the glared/shone question:</p>
<p>“Shined” is only used as the past tense of the verb “shine” when the verb is TRANSITIVE (done to another object)- e.g. “The shoeshine SHINED my shoes.”</p>
<p>“Shone” is the past tense of the verb “shine” when it is INTRANSITIVE (not done to another object-- the question was asking about what the lake/river was doing, and in this case the verb would obviously be intransitive. Therefore, “shone” would have been used correctly. “Glared” could not be used because it carries a negative connotation and the passage was clearly one of appreciation of the natural surroundings.</p>
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Great post, completely agree.</p>
<p>^ Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.</p>
<p>I think tennis’s post pretty much blows the “Aroma Team” out of the water. Wouldn’t you guys say? ;)</p>
<p>It’s a good thing I went with whiff, lol. Yeah, I’m quitting the aroma team :p</p>
<p>Anything that takes ten nerds on the internet an hour to solve is an unfair question.</p>
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Uh, what? I was 100% sure on whiff from the beginning.</p>
<p>^same. The people who said “aroma” were most likely NOT NERDS :)</p>