<p>This book was disappointing. I tutor students preparing for the SAT and was hoping to find some good sentence correction practice. Unless you are a non-native speaker of English, I cannot imagine that the questions in the sentence correction section of this book would present any difficulty to you. In other words, they just don’t accurately reflect the level of difficulty of questions that are on the SAT.</p>
<p>The key also contains errors, and some of questions are poorly constructed. Any of the following books have much better practice for the writing test: McGraw Hill 12 SATs, Princeton Review 11 SATs, College Board Official SAT Guide.</p>
<p>The essay prompts are better, but still not worth the price I paid for the book</p>
<p>Wood5440 that’s exactly what I was thinkin… hmmm maybe i am over thinking it… but to me it just sounded better if i drop all the articles… maybe its just me…</p>
The article the carries to every single element of the list (from “props” to “place”), because that’s how parallelism works, but it conflicts with the article “a,” as well as with the singular noun phrase “[a] rack of costumes.” Here is the ideal simple revision:
[quote]
Behind the stage were the props, the dressing rooms, a rack of costumes, and a place for all of the actors and actresses to relax and rest between acts. <a href=“%22rack%20of%20costumes%22%20sounds%20better%20with%20the%20article%20%5Bi%5Da%5B/i%5D%20instead%20of%20%5Bi%5Dthe%5B/i%5D,%20although%20it%20wouldn’t%20be%20wrong%20with%20%5Bi%5Dthe%5B/i%5D.”>/quote</a></p>
<p>So you can see that the question is faulty. But the error occurs at C nonetheless.</p>