March 2012 SAT I Writing Thread

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<p>@momof2ky
That example is not similar at all, there is no pronoun in that sentence.</p>

<p>@Lanayru
Yeah, I’m sorry, I know that I’m being really difficult. I have already read all 25 pages and the only argument presented for NE is that there is no other singular noun in the sentence. But I believe that people only selected NE because they realized that “Its” was attempting to refer to the room based on the overall meaning of the sentence.</p>

<p>I still think it’s ambiguous, but I will concede defeat if someone provides a working sentence without commas that uses the pronoun “His” or “Her” before the actual noun the pronoun is referring to and places a verb in between the pronoun and the noun it is referring to.</p>

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<p>sorry, i didn’t take the test, I was just trying to help because the sentence is definitely no errors. And, by the way,“that” is a pronoun in the sentence.</p>

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<p>No problem.</p>

<p>Sorry, I meant a possessive adjective.</p>

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<p>@michael</p>

<p>While stomping his smelly feet give the potatoes the taste that Johnny desires.</p>

<p>I dunno, you could spout a bunch o’ those. But none will be close to the original sentence.</p>

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<p>I’ve just never seen a sentence with this exact type of structure before on SAT materials. Anyone want to wager bets?</p>

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<p>So was it “Its chandeliers and mirrors make the room appear larger than it actually is.”? I’ll take it to some people (other SAT vets, teachers, etc.) and see what they think…</p>

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<p>@Lanayru
Ok maybe my challenge was poorly worded.</p>

<p>Just a side note, that sentence is incorrect. Even if you put in a comma so that it reads “While stomping, his smelly feet give the potatoes the taste that Johnny desires” (which I think is what you meant), stomping refers to smelly feet and not Johnny which I think you tried to get at. So it should be “While stomping, Johnny uses his smelly feet to give the potatoes the taste that he desires.” On the other hand, if you don’t put a comma, there is no subject performing the verb.</p>

<p>Ok, I just don’t think you can have a sentence in the form of:
His (noun) (verb) Johnny ____
if his refers to Johnny. </p>

<p>I guess we’ll just have to wait till we get results back. I’m not completely confident though. It just sounds awkward to me.</p>

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<p>Ok, good idea, I’ll show the sentence to my english teachers as well (Ivy Leaguers)</p>

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<p>I think, if you want to be most precise, the sentence read, “Its glittering chandeliers and mirrored walls make the room appear larger than it actually is.”</p>

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<p>for the “when one arrives, blah blah…” i chose the answer “when arriving” because the mountain wouldn’t block your view if you already arrived at the island. It would only block your view if you were in the act of arriving. right?</p>

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<p>What was the answer to the identifying errors question where “particularly” was underlined?</p>

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<p>What was the answer to the question</p>

<p>Blah blah blah blah, Jean brought to her professionion a respectability that it has never experienced before.</p>

<p>I heard some people that said it was NE, and others who said that it was has. But isn’t this sentence NE cause it is not past perfect?</p>

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<p>I think it should be “had” not “has”, because Jean “brought”, which is past tense.</p>

<p>She brought to her profession a respectability that it had never experienced before.</p>

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<p>@jam</p>

<p>it should be has–>had</p>

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<p>@creamcheese41, the answer was when one arrives
the reason you cant say when arriving is that _____, mount kiliwhatever looms over the ocean, blah.
it makes it seem that the Mountain, while arriving, is looming. Using when one arrives clarifies which subject the arriving refers to. It is the same case for “upon arrival” and “while arriving”.<br>
@michael
another sentence is that “its shiny luminescence made the hallway glitter” obviously refers to the hallway and not the lum…
there you go.</p>

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<p>Did anyone get a lot of Cs at the beginning of the Error ID in the long writing section?</p>

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<p>Does anyone remember a question that had something to do with people hiring craftsmen to create totem poles or something like that? I couldn’t decide between NE and whatever the second “to -------” verb was; I ended up going with NE. Was this experimental (I hope so!)?</p>

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<p>@golfer
prob experimental. didn’t have it</p>

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<p>The sentence said bring to her profession not brought to her profession. Still not sure what the answer is.</p>

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<p>It was brought; I’m almost positive. I thought that question was relatively straightforward. The error was “has”.</p>