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That’s not how it went. It was: “If they would have been told, they might not respond spontaneously”. As you can see, there is a tense error there.</p>
<p>It was definitely A or E.</p>
<p>Hey one last thing-
Another thread is talking about some global warming sentence where there was some idiom error like caused from…can someone elaborate on this question plz.</p>
<p>maybe this was on the international test or experimental? i don’t remember it on ours</p>
<p>Additionally, on the last question (where everyone is debating A or E), while I put E, now I believe E is absolutely wrong. Using the phrase “By telling” creates a misplaced modifier because the word directly following this phrase is "the participants; however, by telling does sound alot better than A does.</p>
<p>Im pretty sure its “not have”</p>
<p>then a wouldnt work in that case either</p>
<p>A was “were they told…”</p>
<p>“were they told…, they might not respond” is a major tense error.</p>
<p>No, it was “Were they to be told.”</p>
<p>I put A.
It sounded better PLUS I always picture some really rich snooty woman or man saying the sentence since I always thought they were the ones that create the tests (lol).</p>
<p>^I agree. That’s what I put and I remember marking off D and E instantly because they were too ambiguous, and then even though A was wordy and sounded bad, it was the most grammatically correct by far.</p>
<p>Did we ever reach a conclusion on the mountain lions question? I.e. is this sentence grammatically correct:</p>
<p>“Mountain lions are one of the most dangerous animals…”? I’m pretty convinced that “one of” is wrong but I don’t think we ever reached a CC consensus on this one.</p>
<p>one of is definitely wrong if you’re using a plural subject</p>
<p>I thougth it was
Mountain lions are one of the most dangerous animal SPECIES" (i could be wrong)</p>
<p>Ya for teh lats one, E is defiently not right because it had an ambigious IT</p>
<p>I guess if I misread the wording, then A would be right and B wrong becase of the tense problem.</p>
<p>Hmm and the city one was no error as well…something just seemed off with that sentence, but o well minus 2 isn’t awful.</p>
<p>Cricket-
It didnt say species though: it said like “animals to inhabit the rocky mountains” or something like that</p>
<p>^Lol yeah I didn’t really remember the question except for the “lions are one of” part so I made up the rest. Does anyone remember the phrasing of the “city” question?</p>
<p>I concur with Bee123. I thought that it should have been mountain lions are SOME of not ONE of</p>
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It helped a lot lol.</p>
<p>It said something like </p>
<p>Some city surrounds a wall that in ancient times enclosed and protected it.
-This was a crude and possibility incorrect reproduction of that sentence though</p>
<p>Additionally, some have said the CB wouldn’t test this but I still would like to believe that surrounds was not the right verb bc walls surround cities not the other way.</p>
<p>The answer was without a doubt the “one of” portion of the question. I remember looking for the word “species” or a word like that following “one of”, but I didn’t find it and then realized that it should have been SOME of instead of ONE of. So pretty much what BeautifulNerd said, haha.</p>
<p>@nick Thanks. I’m taking the ACT next week. Wish me luck!</p>
<p>@niteofthebrown That’s what I said too! I read the sentence like 3 times. Lol I know I looked dumb b/c I was saying everything out loud, to myself, though. Oh well, I can’t help it.</p>
<p>For the city question, could “it” be an ambiguous pronoun that could refer to the city or to the walls (or whatever the other noun(s) were)</p>
<p>Bringing up an old problem about the lions.</p>
<p>I’ve asked others and they said since it is comparing it to other species that it makes “one of” correct.</p>
<p>Perfect! Thank you to both niteofthebrown and rtgrove. I still don’t remember what I answered for that city question but now I definitely remember the question… I kind of recall answering “No error” but I’m seriously drawing a blank. Rt your logic definitely works for “surrounds,” even though that’s kind of a meaning rather than grammar issue (sometimes I just HATE these CB sentences!!!).</p>
<p>Edit: Latency that definitely makes sense, but was “it” underlined? I don’t remember lol. And zap a lot of my friends are convinced that “one of” was grammatically correct (and therefore the answer incorrect), so I still don’t really know. It just doesn’t seem right for a linking verb to link a plural noun to a singular noun, although conversationally it makes sense.</p>
<p>I agree with Latency
That’s what I thought.</p>
<p>@zap I don’t remember what the sentence said after “one of.” I just remember reading it aloud and checking off “one of” as incorrect.</p>