May 2010 Writing SAT Thread

<p>Was the honey one the same question as the citrus question?</p>

<p>If so, the answer is distinctively. It should have been distinctive.</p>

<p>wrong thread</p>

<p>hmm…how about the one with the black plays of the Pittsburgh Cycle?</p>

<p>I had nine of which are, then each of them is</p>

<p>choice A :confused: idk though</p>

<p>@ Robo ; I got NE for that one? So yeah, A.</p>

<p>i think i put that too robo.mind.</p>

<p>I think that distinctively citrus flavor is arguably valid, because the adjectives distinctive and citrus are not independent of each other, ergo you could say that distinctively is an adverb for an invisible “is”.</p>

<p>I think I put A for Pittsburgh as well.</p>

<p>No, it is not arguable. The subject of the sentence was honey and therefore are is not the correct verb.</p>

<p>I agree with the dude who said “distinctly” can be used to modify “citric” after it, thus is valid grammatically. Maybe there is some error in usage of that word?</p>

<p>I picked E for the plays question, but probably wrong. I think it was the hardest question in writing section :p.</p>

<p>For the plays one, I don’t think A is right. </p>

<p>Because it begins “9 of which are” and goes to “each of which are” saying that each of the 9 have diff backgrounds whereas ALL of them had diff backgrounds.</p>

<p>However, I could be mistaken.</p>

<p>I find it neat to think that while I was writing the SAT, people all over the world were probably going through the same thought processes I was on the same questions…sorry for the randomness</p>

<p>did section 10 end with CCDDD?</p>

<p>For the one with the play - A was correct because of parallelism; the others weren’t parallel</p>

<p>Oh yeah - what did people say for the roman empire question?
choices were possessed, high degree, …?</p>

<p>assassination question??</p>

<p>Anyone remember the ISE question that talked about this biography, with its myriad quotations, is as blatant an example of … of any I have ever seen?</p>

<p>I marked ‘of any’ for the error, since I thought it should be as blatant ‘as any.’</p>

<p>I think the question that stated “The honey ____________ have a distinctively citrus flavor” is the most controversial question in the Writing Section.
I put “have” as the error because I thought ‘honey’ was singular and needed “has”
Distinctively citrus flavor sounds wrong but I thought “have” was a better choice.</p>

<p>How many NE’s did you guys have for the identifying errors part (#11-29)? I had 3.</p>

<p>coup. i had the same reasoning.</p>

<p>@gthhopeful</p>

<p>i also had 3 :):)</p>