Hard writing question SAT

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  1. Alaska has 3 million lakes, over 3000 rivers, and more coastline (than in) the entire continental United States. A. than in B. than are in C. than D. as does E. as compared to

The answer is C, but isnt C wrong because its breaks the parallelism rule? shouldnt it be “than does”?

Also,

  1. To create a pen name, Theodor Seuss Geisel used his middle name and, because his father had always wanted him to become a doctor, added the title “Dr.” No error.

For this, the error is “had always wanted” and I dont understand why… Please help!

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I think the error with 42 is because of the “always”. The word “always” already implies the time reference is before he created his pen name, so “had” is not needed. Not sure

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for 40 we compare Alaska with US so it’s parellel

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@andyis how do we know if we are comparing Alaska with US or Alaska has with US has?

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Simplify the sentence and it would make more sense. Try saying Alaska has more rivers than the US. It sounds weird if you say Alaska has more rivers than does the US.

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ahhh thank you to everyone who answered my question! but can someone still help me with the dr seuss question?

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Hi,

Question number 42 (Dr.Seuss) has no any errors. There’re more than one past tense in the sentence “wanted” & “used” so you should add “had” to the action that first happened.

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I mean “had always wanted” shouldn’t be considered an error in the sentence.

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@Zeyad187 That is what I thought as well, but according to the book, that is an error :confused:

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No error in #42; the error is in the book.

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@Dubudubu - the last few questions you posted don’t look like the TCB (ETS) legit materials.
You’d be much better off sticking with the authentic SAT stuff.

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yeah that is what i thought. thank you

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  1. Alaska has more lakes than the entire continental United States.
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@GMKoon Hey, how do you know when you are supposed to say than NOUN VERB or just than NOUN? don’t u have to follow parallelism?

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You don’t need to know: you’ll have either one phrase or another among choices for an answer. Conciseness usually trumps parallelism.
Do you say “Mark is taller than I” or “Mark is taller than I am”?
I would, actually, say “Mark is taller than me”. :smiley:
And you are welcome! :slight_smile: