<p>1) Last summer, when Mary's aunt and uncle flew from Turkey to visit their relatives and tour the United States, Mary invited Sandya and I, to her house to meet them. No error</p>
<p>The answers the "I" is incorrect.</p>
<p>2) Because the American Indian rodeo includes games and exhibitions developed as early as the seventeenth century, they predate by a few hundred years the form of rodeo now seen on television. No error</p>
<p>The answer is "they predate" should be changed.</p>
<p>3) Despite its cultural importance, the Daily Gazette lost 70 percent of its subscribers since 1920 and, by 1955, was losing as much as $200,000 a year. No error</p>
<p>The answer is "lost" should be changed.</p>
<p>4) Some beaches are frequently contaminated by untreated sewage that flows into the ocean, which can last for several days.</p>
<p>It should be changed to "ocean; the contamination can last for several days" but I chose "ocean that can last for several days." I chose the right answer first, but it just seemed too long/unnecessary.</p>
<p>These were from a 2005 released SAT test. Are the newer ones harder? :|</p>
<p>For #1, ‘I’ is a subjective pronoun and since the person is being invited, you need to use the objective pronoun ‘me.’</p>
<p>For #2, simply put, the ‘they’ is ambiguous
For #3, the key word here is ‘since,’ when you see something like that, you need to use ‘had lost.’ For example, “I HAD lost many friends SINCE graduating from middleschool”</p>
<p>For #4, the answer you chose means that the ocean is what lasted for several days, which is wrong. The right answer specifies what is lasting for several days, the contamination.</p>
<p>1) I should be changed to me, since the objective case is needed here
2) the pronoun should be it instead of they since the antecedent is “the American Indian rodeo” and then you also need to make the corresponding changes to the verb, predates
3) lost should be changed to has lost, you have the trigger word “since”
4)“ocean that can last for several days” implies that the ocean can last for several days thus changing the meaning of the original sentence and creating ambiguity</p>
<p>i hope this helps :)</p>
<p>what is the difference between lossed and lost?</p>
<p>^I don’t think lossed is a word</p>
<p>Can you explain what two things “they” could refer to?</p>
<p>American rodeo or the games/exhibitions.</p>