<p>^Haha beautifulnerd do you read sentences actually aloud during the test for errors? Some people were doing that next to me and I do it all the time during practice tests, but I always chicken out during the real thing because I don’t want to bother people around me.</p>
<p>Latency, tahts what i thought, but im pretty sure “it” was refering to something very clearly.</p>
<p>Ya…idk I have seen the SAT do stuff like use the verb reclined when it should be inclined and that stuff, but nvr that bad b4…idk. But there was something very odd about surrounds in that sentence.</p>
<p>“It” was definitely underlined, but I also thought it was pretty obvious that “it” was referring to the city and not the walls, so I put E anyway. I really don’t think “surrounds” or whatever it was was the correct answer. I was torn between D and E.</p>
<p>Lol I SO do it. The teacher looked up, but it wasn’t SUPER loud. It was noticeable though. I went to a school near my house but had never been there. My proctor was SO weird. She called her wife during our 5 minute break. I mean no one needed the break, so we all kinda listened to her convo, at least I did.</p>
<p>I thought the “it” could refer to the walls or the city, then again, if it referred to the walls, wouldn’t it be “they”?</p>
<p>It was definately ok in that sentence</p>
<p>Latency-</p>
<p>Ya surrounds probably was not the correct answer because I think I am the only one who put that whose posted so far. However, idk, I still do think it was correct per say.</p>
<p>I’m lost now. I thought “it” was too ambiguous.</p>
<p>Na city was clearly the antecedent for it because it was the only singular noun in the whole sentence.</p>
<p>True. It just sounded too ambiguous for me.</p>
<p>btw are we sure the question we’re debating is on the non-experimental part?</p>
<p>I think my rationale was that “it” clearly referred to the city, but it didn’t really seem right to use the word “it” in the introductory phrase like that (I think I’m remembering the sentence correctly). Not really concrete reasoning, I know.</p>
<p>The reason the “Were they to be told” question is so difficult is because “Were they to be told” is usually a no-no phrase when it comes to the SAT. When first reading the question I immediately crossed out answer choice A, looking for something like “Had they been told,” which is usually more what the SAT is looking for. However, it is clear that none of the other choices were at all grammatically correct, and while A is phrased awkwardly it still works.</p>
<p>Yeah I thought it was clear the “it” referred to the city</p>
<p>I hate answer choice A (TERRIBLE wording) but the other ones were either worse, or didn’t seem to work grammatically. So I reluctantly chose A.</p>
<p>Mabs- it was definitely on non-experimental. I had it and I had a math experimental section.</p>
<p>@jam
and was the piercing, lions (one of vs. some of) question also non-experimental?</p>
<p>Lion was non-experimental.</p>
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Not same sentence but same concept.</p>
<p>Mabs…u chose A for the city one?</p>
<p>Idk, the more I think about it the more I think that surrounds simply cannot be right. Cities are SURROUNDED BY walls not the other way around. Thus, the sentence used a faulty verb. I’ve seen the collgeboard do this in 2 other practice tests and I’m 50 percent (would be higher…but few other ppl said surround was the correct answer) that this was the answer.</p>
<p>rtGrove, in the context of the sentence, it made complete sense</p>
<p>Esplin,</p>
<p>Maybe my memory is off, but I don’t believe it did. Below is the sentence (as I remember it)</p>
<p>Some city surrounds a wall that in ancient times both protected and defended it.</p>
<p>What’s the diff b/w non-experimental and experimental (sorry, I’m new to the whole SAT thing)?</p>