Grammar Q

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
1

<li>When the news spread how new goldfields were discovered in Nome, Alaska, thousands abandoned Dawson, the site of the previous gold rush.</li>
</ol>

<p>My Choice - how new goldfields were discovered
Answer - about new goldfields that had been discovered
What’s wrong with “how new goldfields were discovered?”</p>

<li>It was a Chinese American grower who finally succeeded with adapting the now familiar orange tree** to **the American climate.</li>
</ol>

<p>The Answer is -B
But why does the error lie in B? What would make it grammatically correct?</p>

<li>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.</li>
</ol>

<p>The answer is B
But would it be correct if it is had lost? because of the since? could someone please explain this to me.</p>

2

<p>i think number 1 is just syntax...i don't really know why it's right but it sounds right
most of the grammar stuff is usually based on "feeling" as opposed to grammar although there are some that really do require full on grammar
just read more books/etc but i don't know how much it'll help since you probably have the test soon</p>

<p>isn't number 2 "by adapting"?</p>

<p>as for number 3 i think it's B because you don't know if 1955 is current so they may be referring to "lost" as well instead of "losing" for parallelism.</p>

<p>i may be wrong on these though
but don't dispair!
this is the easiest section to boost up scores since you just need to know grammar rules</p>

3

<h1>2 i think could either be "by adapting" or "in adapting" but i'm pretty sure "with adapting" is just an example of a improperly used idiom.</h1>

<h1>3, the first part of the sentence is in past tense, so you need to keep the rest of the sentence in the same tense.</h1>

<p>(#1 i think you just need the "about" otherwise you can't really connect the two parts of the sentence.)</p>

4

<ol>
<li>if u look at this carefully,u can see that the correct answer answers why the people abandon the old gold place, and went for the new one. "how the gold was discovered" doesn't not give the reason why people wants to go to that site, but the news that it is discovered.</li>
<li>i think "succeeded ...in" , what i see is that adapting has nothing to do with this in this case, it's actually "succeeded in doing something".
adapting is correct because of the ...to.</li>
<li>i got the wrong last time when i did it, it was a stupid mistake.
i failed to see the key word since.
since and for, often indicate present perf tense.
i have lived on Earth since 1991.
For 17 years, I've been learning and growing.
so in this one, its the same case, -has lost- is needed here.</li>
</ol>

5

<p>To perhaps clarify what Ren said on the first question, it is not important "how" the goldfields were discovered, but rather that they were discovered.
In the second example, you succeed in doing something, not with doing something.</p>