<p>Cracking the SAT, Practice Test3, page 525 Wrting section 4, question 10</p>
<p>Some students of literary criticism consider the theories of Blaine to be a huge advance in modern critical thinking and questions the need to study the discounted theories of Rauthe and Wilson.</p>
<p>A. to be a huge advance in modern critical thinking and questions
B. as a huge advance in modern critical thinking and question
C. as being a huge advance in modern critical thinking and questioned
D. a huge advance in modern critical thinking and question
E. are a huge advance in modern critical thinking, and questioned</p>
<p>I answered "B", because I thought you use idiom "Consider....as....."
But the princeton review says "D". and it says it's because the word "consider" never can be followed by "as". </p>
<p>Is that true? somebody explain to me pleaz</p>
<p>Consider... as is colloquially incorrect; PR is correct. I think it's just a colloquial usage-type issue, but I can think of one (probably incorrect) reason why: "as" sounds like it sets up a comparision, not an equality. (They consider it as they would consider an elephant... big and powerful.)</p>
<p>"to be" adds nothing to the sentence and therefore should be omitted.</p>
<p>Typically, people tend to drop the "as" out of that situation. However, I don't know if it is just a colloquial use, or there is actually a grammatical problem. I don't think a question like this would be on the SAT.</p>
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<p>Here, that explains it. apparently, "as" is not used after the word consider. (as it is with words like regarded) You just have to memorize these things apparently.</p>
<p>D is correct. "As" muddies the sentence.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'd choose D too though I wouldn't be able to explain why. :(
But don't fret, fhqwgads2005's reply is pretty perspicuous.</p>
<p>if this were a real SAT question, you'd know it has to be (d) just from looking at the conjugation of the word "question" in the different answer choices. since "students" is the subject of the sentence, "questions" can't be the appropriate form. since "consider" is in the present tense and the SAT is fanatical about verb tense and parallelism, "questioned" can't be correct either. this means the only sentence with a form of that verb that could be accepted on the SAT is (d), which uses "question"--a present-tense plural verb.</p>
<p>i don't know that i've ever seen a real SAT question test both of these concepts ("consider as" and subject-verb-tense agreement) in one sentence. which is why i recommend you don't use third-party tests :)</p>
<p>i should add, just to be clear, there's nothing wrong with "questioned" from a purely grammatical standpoint. it just wouldn't be okay on the SAT.</p>
<p>the "as" is already understood in "consider" because "consider" in this context is defined as "regard as"</p>