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<li>Bees must leave the safety of the hive to forage for food many times a [day, they are risking being eaten] by any of a multitude of predators </li>
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<p>(B) day at the risk of being eaten
(C) day risking them to be eaten </p>
<p>Why is the answer (B) not (C) </p>
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<li>In the 100 year relay our team impressed the crowd, with each [of the members shaving] several seconds off her own best time. </li>
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<p>(A) same
(E) who shaved </p>
<p>why can't E be the answer? btw the answer is A </p>
<p>writing really freaks me out..... people say that writing is the easiest section to raise your score but not for me
I do many writing questions but my WR score always stays the same...
any advice????</p>
<p>“risking them to be eaten” just sounds plain wrong. Read it to yourself…</p>
<p>and the last one the subject is unclear… the individual members are never addressed in the previous part of the sentence (before the comma) so it has to be stated in the second part</p>
<p>Question One:</p>
<p>I’ll offer a more technical explanation for (C)'s wrongness. </p>
<p>First of all, there needs to be a comma before “risking.” Secondly, “risking them” indicates that there is a subject doing the risking that is distinct from the object being risked. If it were otherwise, and the subject and object were the same, the object “them” would have to be in the reflexive form (“themselves”); it’s not, however.</p>
<p>In reality, the subject doing the risking is the entire previous clause, which renders the participial phrase ambiguously modifying (most often, what the participial phrase modifies needs to be the subject of the adjacent clause). When an entire clause is modified, a relative pronoun (in this case, “which”) is more appropriate.</p>
<p>Question Two (repost, as I responded to this is your other thread):</p>
<p>“In the 100 year relay our team impressed the crowd, with each who saved several seconds off her own best time” is ungrammatical.</p>
<p>The phrase beginning with “with each” needs to have a participal. In choice (A), “shaving” is the participial; in (E), there is none.</p>
<p>haha thank u so much
silverturtle, how did u do on your writing section?
u must have aced it I assume,</p>
<p>When I took it freshman year, I got all the multiple choice questions. On the PSAT, however, I probably missed two for rather frustrating reasons.</p>
<p>wow u actually aced it in your freshman year?? :o
are you a junior or senior now?
I wish I could be good like that…
did u use books other than the bb? (I mean only for writing multiple choice section)</p>
<p>I’m a junior. I didn’t prepare for it freshman year.</p>