Jessica did not find the (park as being) an appropriate location for book club meetings: there were too many distractions that might interrupt discussions.
I narrowed down the answer choices to:
B) park as
D) park
I chose B) because it seemed to sound more connective but a bit awkward. I have tried to ignore the reasoning of sounding awkward in harder writing questions but it seems that I was correct this time?
Can anyone explain why B) is incorrect and why D) is correct? Thanks.
We call this an object complement. The most familiar example is like this
“We named him George.”
“Him” and “George” refer to the same person. But it would sound strange to write
“We named him as George.”
That seems obviously wrong, right? The trick now is to see that “We find the park a bad location” follows the same pattern.
It doesn’t work with all verbs. Mostly verbs of naming, considering, identifying, and such.
@WasatchWriter That makes sense. Do you have any other examples of actual SAT questions that mimic this grammatical rule? Thanks!
Sorry, I don’t. But off the top of my head:
I consider him a fool.
They thought him a loner.
We elected her president.
The ministered pronounced them husband and wife.
“consider…as” has been tested many, many times (as wrong). This Q is analogouos.
@marvin100 So “We consider him a martyr” is correct, while “We consider him as a martyr” is incorrect?
Man, English is harder than math. Wouldn’t both of these be correct?
We consider him a martyr.
We view him as a pioneer in martyrdom.
If they are both right, then it goes back to what @WasatchWriter said – it works with some verbs and not others.
Yeah. “We consider him to be a martyr” is also correct. @JuicyMango
No kidding. Idioms, man, idioms. Consider all the prepositions that can collocate with the verb “look”:
look at
look for
look up
look after
look in on
look out for
look over
look to
look upon
look around
Many of them totally change the meaning of the verb. English is wacky.
Easy to learn. Nearly impossible to master.
In one of the past SATs “known to be” was the wrong answer; the correct one was “known as”. Or vise versa.
Both phrases are correct, but have slightly different meanings.
And don’t even get me started me on the Silverturtle v. ETS “explanation of/for the phenomenon” case.
@pckeller is right - math is peanuts compare/compared to/with English (well, he did not exactly say that). 