June 2008 Writing

<p>LOL, it's obvious which section was the easiest, this thread is four pages vs. 10 pages and multiple threads for the other two sections.</p>

<p>yes...no error.</p>

<p>Bump on this. Let's get a list going</p>

<p>No errors:
Monkeys
Mosque</p>

<p>Tough errors:
Tense error in the United Nations puppet show
Superlative for Hemingway</p>

<p>Passage correction:
Delete nevertheless
Coffeehouse... "the debate could continue into the night"
"The authorities' fear of coffee drinking" may seem ridiculous</p>

<p>Any others?
What about the last one with although/whereas?</p>

<p>i remember being stuck between a few options for the ice skater question and the era of Greek something question in section 10...</p>

<p>The only question without an error was the monkey question; the mosque question had a mistake</p>

<p>to star, the answer was the although one</p>

<p>I had two No Errors and those were the mosque and monkey.</p>

<p>@Hesterrrrrrr, what's wrong witht he mosque one?</p>

<p>so, was the hemingway one definitely superlative? i remember choosing the "more than" option, and i also remember that every other choice was either wrong/awkward...</p>

<p>so if it's superlative, it becomes...</p>

<p>most unified among any earlier novels. </p>

<p>So you see, this means that Farewell to Arms belongs to those earlier novels.
But if that's the case, it would have stated "...than any other earlier novel"</p>

<p>And what purpose does "any" serve if there's the superlative "most"</p>

<p>most unified among the earlier novels sounds about right, but this wasn't the choice.</p>

<p>I don't know about that superlative. It just sounds so awkward in the sentence.</p>

<p>that's what my problem was with it ^</p>

<p>I put down superlative first but then changed it to more than because it sounded..wrong</p>

<p>Most unified among any earlier novels
More unified than any earlier novels</p>

<p>Second one.</p>

<p>There are definitely instances where you can use 'more'.</p>

<p>Like if I say "I'm taller than everyone else here." That seems grammatically correct, doesn't it?</p>

<p>The 'among' on the test just sounded awful. If it said 'of the earlier novels' or whatever it might have been different</p>

<p>Kobe Bryant is better than any other NBA players
Kobe Bryant is the best among any other NBA players</p>

<p>there you go! More than is correct. :p</p>

<p>I just asked my dad (an English professor) and he told me the "more" was fine in this instance. Hope he's right. :)</p>

<p>your dad owns</p>

<p>Our parents and older siblings are probably going nuts, cuz we keep asking them about SAT questions they've never heard of before. :)</p>

<p>My parents left me home alone all day to wallow in nerves. I had to turn to you guys for reassurance. :)</p>

<p>Wait I am trying to figure out which writing section was experimental.</p>

<p>Improving paragraphs were about pyramids and coffee, which one did you guys have? Someone tell me more questions from the real section, can't remember :/</p>

<p>I didn't have paragraphs about pyramids. That must've been yours?</p>

<p>OH! I think I just figured my experimental section out (finally)! Did anyone else have the paragraph correcting about Around the World in 80 Days? :)</p>