May 2010 Writing SAT Thread

<p>Whoarr
I can’t follow your reasoning behind your explanations. Can you reexplain?</p>

<p>hes just using a simpler case to find the answer.</p>

<p>boston ,youre wrong. dam. maybe you should just cancel your score. Actually scratch that. dont cancel, im curious to know if you broke 2k when scores come out.</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the other answers for the banana/popular question?</p>

<p>@btang
You seriously need to start using logic or rational argumentation. This is your argument every time: “You’re wrong. Leave.” I ask for reasons. You tell me to leave. You’re a joke.</p>

<p>show me where you distinctly asked me for reasons. Additionally, I actually dont want you to leave; your antics are extremely entertaining and im dying to find out whether or not your score even broke 2k. Stay in touch, i’ve got the answers i was looking for so im done here!</p>

<p>anyone remember the question 22, the one about the red cross? was it no error?
also, number 13 the question about … felt wore out? what is the answer for that one?</p>

<p>I think the red cross was no error and the “wore” should have been “worn”.</p>

<p>I think “wore” was wrong. And I got NE for the Red Cross one.</p>

<p>Haha.</p>

<p>btangbang: “Hurr durr I didn’t know I needed to give reasons when I say stuff. 2+2=5. You disagree? Then leave.”</p>

<p>Lolz. And anyone can easily lie about their SAT scores, which is why I don’t post my SAT scores nor do I listen to other peoples’ claims.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, nice edit btdubbs. </p>

<p>@harryj - What Wong said.</p>

<p>I think for the red cross, I got NE, and it was the only NE I got… But im not sure. Because that one had something about [deprived of] as one of the error options and i was stuck on whether that was wrong or not cuz i suck at idioms.</p>

<p>and 13 was felt worn out.</p>

<p>AND. omg whats with this bad attitude hanging around this thread? Boston, I believe that it was “most popular” because the sentence went like: “although oranges, apples and [insert other fruits] are [something about them being cool], [something about surveys conducted] show that bananas are the more popular.” since there were three other fruits that the banana was being compared to, most is more appropriate in this case (: i hope that cleared up any confusion? or maybe i’m wrong again…</p>

<p>andddd. i put down HAS as the wrong part in the honey thing. i didn’t even realized that distinctively was a potential error too since i reacted to HAS so fast… but now im feeling doubtful ):</p>

<p>Boston - Bananas is being compared to all of the other fruits in the world. You only use “more” when you are comparing two things. In this case, you are comparing more than two things so “most” should be there - not “more”</p>

<p>@mabs - Nope. The bananas were being compared to only a few fruits, like apples and oranges. They weren’t being compared to all the fruits in the world. Ergo, bananas are the more popular fruit in the world.</p>

<p>what was the correct answer for the sentence “no one was more happy than I”? was it B? (more happy than me)</p>

<p>boston: but even if it was compared to only a “few” fruits, it would be more… i think the only case in which it would be “more” would be if it said that although apples seem cool, bananas are actually more popular. like if before they even mentioned banana, only one fruit was cited as being potentially popular. but if it said apples and oranges–even just two of them–then when you compare them to the banana, it would make it a three-way comparison which means you have to most… does that make sense?</p>

<p>the one that said…</p>

<p>The investors wanted to know if the company made profits last quarter of the previous…?
something like that question</p>

<p>was it
did the company make
or had the company made</p>

<p>@boston</p>

<p>as long as you’re making a comparison to more than one other item, you use the superlative. and the bananas- whether they were being compared to all fruits, or just the fruits mentioned in the passage, the superlative should have been used.</p>

<p>I got A, more happy than I.</p>

<p>“I was more happy than everyone…”
“Me was more happy than everyone…”</p>

<p>the consenus is that it is A (Fine as it is)</p>

<p>“more happy” should be “happier.”</p>