<p>Link: The</a> Official SAT Question of the Day</p>
<p>How come the answer isn't B?</p>
<p>Doesn't it have to be a parallel struture, because te first part describes the limit, whereas the second describes the approximate length???</p>
<p>Please help!</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>“up to 90 feet thick” is parallel with “approximately 8 miles across.”</p>
<p>Wow. I got this right :D</p>
<p>Ok, this is what I did. </p>
<p>Choice A: Choice A can’t be wrong because the Limestone formation IS in Montana. Saying it any other way, such as “The limestone formation is at Montana” would be wrong. I hope this is self-explanatory. So that is right. </p>
<p>Choice B: Choice B can’t be wrong. The layers is UPTO 90 feet. That means there is no definitive measurement, so saying UPTO would be the right way to say the sentence. So that can’t be wrong.</p>
<p>Choice C: This can’t be wrong. The word “And” connected the sentence of “Upto 90 feet thick” with “Approximately 8 miles across”. The sentence was connecting “Width, and Height”, or “Thick and Across”. So that is correct.</p>
<p>Choice D: This can’t be wrong. The word “Across” was supposed to be there. There is no other way to actually say the sentence without that word.</p>
<p>Choice E: This is the Answer. Since A, B, C, D were not incorrect, this the only choice you can choose.</p>
<p>Why shouldn’t the word “wide” be used for D? Is thick+across an actual idiomatic phrase like long+wide (“It is 10 feet long and 2 feet wide.”)?</p>
<p>It could, but that’s not the way you actually do these questions. The answer is, like all the other questions, which are asking you for the BEST answer, not the one that COULD be. Wide and Across are the same exact thing, but considering that Across is still grammatically correct, and there is no errors pertaining to using the word. </p>
<p>Remember that the question is asking you to identify the ERRORS, not identify what COULD be another word for a particular phrase.</p>
<p>^Correct. THat was my thinking when I was considering D</p>
<p>Does the answer “No error” come up often on the SAT tests? Cause the QOTD’s have very few questions that have “No error” as the correct answer.</p>
<p>^ About one-fifth of the time.</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with choice B because it is merely stating that the limestone layers go up to xxx ft. thick and stretch roughly xxx ft. across.</p>
<p>nothingto has the right idea (not a definitive measurement).</p>