January 2009 SAT Writing Discussion

<p>^ Sentence fragment. I think the answer was "...and so blah blah"</p>

<p>cupnoodles is correct.</p>

<p>"Fabric was expensive, it was" is a comma splice.</p>

<p>", and so" was the only grammatical one.</p>

<p>OMG I got that right?!!!</p>

<p>Seems I missed that one. :(
I thought there was a semicolon before "and so...".</p>

<p>Add another experimental writing section on that was insanely hard...something about an Irish person reminiscing about her home. </p>

<p>Mae Jamison was definitely the real one, right?</p>

<p>mae jamison def real, irish def experimental i do not remember that</p>

<p>hey guys what about the NASA woman thing? i thought those paragraph improvement Qs were really tricky..</p>

<p>I think there were like two out of the five that I thought were tricky.
Thirty five was straightforward...like. for real. Changing that sentence that said like 'I really like this story' or whatever it was...ahahah</p>

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", and so" was the only grammatical one

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Are you sure about this? That's two conjunctions in a row, and "so" can stand alone without "and."</p>

<p>Are you sure about this? That's two conjunctions in a row, and "so" can stand alone without "and."
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Correct.</p>

<p>There was no option with so AND a comma. That was the only grammatically correct answer.</p>

<p>ok i really want to know about the plants.</p>

<p>there were 3 of them and it said one another, but i think thats for 2 things. so the correct answer would be each other. right?</p>

<p>There was only 1 No Error, yes?</p>

<p>^That's what I got.</p>

<p>^@arachnotron
what did you put for the world's fair one?</p>

<p>Is the world fair (A) cuz it compares crowds to crowds. E compares crowds to people</p>

<p>ey, there was this one question on the NASA person. it was something like after med school, for example, she went to the peace corps. what can replace for example? i put a on that one, dont know what the answer was, but the other choices were consecuently, therefore, and something else...</p>

<p>socal: it was however.</p>

<p>i got 3 no errrors</p>

<p>E doesn't compare crowds to people. It merely uses the word "those." I got 1 no error. The such vessels one.</p>

<p>I only got one no error (the boat one.. "such vessels" - which is right), at least for the last few tough ones we've been discussing from that section. </p>

<p>I put A to world's fair because of the SAT's obsession with parallelism as well.</p>

<p>Also, to be more specific, the codfish question was using a special form of "the" that is not very often used - it is mainly for species of animals, such as "The polar bear inhabits a vast expanse of land in Alaska." It's definitely singular, that's why the sentence was "The codfish" and why you should change it to "it."</p>

<p>I don't think there's a consensus on the mosque question either. Some people are arguing for because of and some are arguing that it's no error, but I put its due to parallelism. I think you can say you celebrated "because of" something - it sounded weird but I don't think it was wrong. However I couldn't clearly articulate why I thought its was wrong, so maybe the person saying A was right.</p>

<p>Ironically, I've been to the mosque they're talking about. It's called the Blue Mosque, by the way, not the Hagia Sophia ... right across from it, but very different. <em>nOw U kNoW</em></p>