<p>i had -3 10 essay for a 740 in october.</p>
<p>-5 with 10 essay = 710 in October for me</p>
<p>Or the easier explanation for "interested in, even passionate about, BLAH" is that "even passionate about," being enclosed in commas, is a unessential phrase--if the "even passionate about" were taken out, then the sentence must still make sense. Thus the answer is A.</p>
<p>what did you guys get for these two:</p>
<p>1) The democrats and republicans dominate the government, however, other parties still join in.
or was the answer: , though other parties still join in.</p>
<p>2) If we had knowledge of the future, our lives would be predictable.
or was the answer: Were we to have knowledge of the future.</p>
<p>I put "though other parties", and "if we had"</p>
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<li> I put the "though" one.</li>
<li> I put "were we to have," but now I'm not sure at all. Damn</li>
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<p>Actually, I could be wrong about both of these :-/</p>
<p>can you guys explain why?</p>
<p>i thought i had "after 10" is it just different format or am i seeing things that others don't......</p>
<p>Question: If we have the ability to see the future, blah blah WOULD ..."</p>
<p>It is certainly not "We have" as it is the incorrect tense. </p>
<p>The BEST answer would have been "If we HAD ..."</p>
<p>But that wasn't a choice, which makes this question so hard.</p>
<p>I put: Were we to have, because it's the closest to if we had.</p>
<p>Agree w/ Ykim</p>
<p>i put were we to have because it's conditional</p>
<p>I put If we have had... anyone put the same?</p>
<p>Yes to Ykim917 and Marimare! on "were we to have"</p>
<p>Also, with the "though" question, I put that since it was the only answer choice not an independent clause, which cannot be joined by merely a comma...</p>
<p>yes i also got were we to have.</p>
<p>yep. let the writing pros do the talking.</p>
<p>was one of the answer choices, "even though" for one of the identifying sentence error questions? I remember it being at the end of the 2nd page of Sentence IDs.</p>
<p>are you sure the even interested in/passionate one was "A"?</p>
<p>I got "c"...</p>
<p>I got the interested in and passionate about or something along those lines.</p>
<p>@asianpride: for that one, I picked something else. </p>
<p>there's nothing grammatically wrong with "even though", I think.</p>
<p>the interested/passionate annoyed me and for the last minute or so i switched from a to c to e and then i think i ended up with and "interested and passionate for" which still doesn't make sense.
also i picked "were we to have" b/c like Iildimsum7 said, it's conditional aka subjunctive (sometimes called conjunctive), which i knew from foreign language studies...</p>