Hard SAT writing Q.

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1

<p>While many people believe that television commercials are quite harmful to children, others contend that such advertising has very little or no effect. No error</p>

2

<p>I’d say it’s B.
If not, then E.
I may be completely wrong.</p>

3

<p>Is it d? Not 100% sure but shouldn’t it be very little to no effect.</p>

4

<p>Im pretty sure its E.</p>

5

<p>Im pretty sure its E.</p>

<p>Everything on the grammar list seems to check out in my head for A-C, but D seems like an idiom error, but grammatically it seems fine. For the safe side, I’d go with E.</p>

6

<p>E? However, I may agree with what herozero… stated about D.</p>

7

<p>It’s D. “Very little to no effect”, not “Very little or no effect”. Incorrect idiom usage.</p>

8

<p>ahaha those tricky dam idioms! should’ve gone with my first guess!</p>

9

<p>This seems to have stumped a lot of you. Ironically collegeboard rated this as difficulty level 2 (out of 5), and was number 18/35 (keep in mind 25-29 are usually the tougher ones). </p>

<p>The correct answer is E, but I chose D thinking (incorrectly) that it was supposed to be very little to no effect.</p>

10

<p>That did not seem like a 2/5 difficulty question.</p>

11

<p>No way would this be less than a 3-4. The collegeboard knows there are kids who go hardcore with grammar rules and when everything checks out grammatically they’ll go straight to no error. BUT, when someone who knows little OR no (get the pun?) grammar reads and listens to the question, they will know its an idiom because most people say “little to no”, instead of “little or no”. shudda stuck with my first choice :(</p>

12

<p>E …</p>

13

<p>@greyturtle “very little” carries over to describe “effect.” If you say “such advertising has very little or no effect,” you are saying “such advertising has very little effect or no effect,” which is the same as “such advertising either doesn’t do much or doesn’t do anything.”</p>

<p>If you say something like “I have red and blue marbles,” “red” carries over to “marbles,” so you are in effect saying “I have red marbles and blue marbles.” It’s the same concept here.</p>