<p>The question</p>
<li>For any mayor of a vast metropolitan area, an understanding of current issues in all districts is not only desirous but also vital. No error.</li>
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<p>The answer is ‘desirous’. </p>
<p>But why? Desirous is a real word, so that should not be the reason it’s wrong.</p>
<p>Diction: it should be desirable.</p>
<p>People are desirous of something.</p>
<p>Something is desirable to people.</p>
<p>Yeah, what diamondbacker said. Haha I had SOOO much trouble with that one when I was helping my friend. </p>
<p>Even after finding out the answer, I thought that it was more of a CR question than a Writing one.</p>
<p>ahhh... that's why i got it wrong =[ .. i was doing this as 1 sitting yesterday. i had like 5 E's lol... well i hate dictions!!</p>
<p>It's also parallelism.
not only desirous but also vital</p>
<p>whatever is after not only, must be parallel to whatever is after but also.
Since vital isn't underlined (I'm assuming), dersirous must be wrong even if you didn't know the diction error.</p>
<p>What do you mean? They're both adjectives, so they're parallel...</p>
<p>They wouldn't be parallel if the sentence were to read:</p>
<p>...not only is desirous but also vital
or
...is not only desirous but also is vital</p>
<p>both are adjectives lol... or are they?
i was thinking about parallelism when i did it,but got lil confused, marked E and moved on</p>
<p>3 in a row I usually get a little suspicious and take note of it to go back and double check those three when I finish, but 4-5 in a row is like something is wrong for sure.</p>
<p>Though 3 in a row is usually common, so I don't really get that suspicious haha.</p>
<p>i was freaking out when i saw 5 E's lol, but i couldn't go back cuz the paragraph improvements... ahh i hate those i swear</p>
<p>^I'm not a big fan of paragraph improvements either - I either get them all correct or miss one or two X_X. I used to just ignore the essay itself, but now I skim the essay first and then answer the questions.</p>
<p>i read,and solve by lines~~ hope nx wk's W is gona be easy =p</p>
<p>ren what do you mea you solve by lines?</p>
<p>i mean i answer Qs in order`~ going down the line~ grammatix tech</p>
<p>i read somewhere that 3 in a row of one letter will be the max. If you get 4, one if almost dfinitely wrong</p>
<p>Yeah I think it's supposed to be desirable. I probably got that one wrong in January, I much prefer ACT English(got 31 on).</p>
<p>I don't konw if anyone feels the same as I do, but the Jan. 08 test was just disastrous. I thought the questions on there were so atypical, and the writing section was just there to mess with your mind.</p>