<p>can we talk more about the bartholomew one?</p>
<p>globoton do you mean no it’s NOT the chef answer? what was the question asking exactly?</p>
<p>gregrunt, the sentence was DEFINITELY 200000% comparing the hummingbird to other birds. not another hummingbird. i am positive.</p>
<p>Has anyone been able to figure out the Bartholomew one? The sentence was roughly: “Although I have known Bartholomew for years and his his interest in the painting, I was shocked to find that he would go to such lengths to obtain it.” It “it” vague?</p>
<p>I think that the question might have been ‘went’ instead of ‘would go’, because I remember writing in the test booklet that it would read right<em>IF</em> it said ‘would go’, but it didn’t say ‘would go’, it said ‘went’, I was thinking ‘to obtain it’ should have been ‘obtaining it’, if it read ‘was going’, based on tenses.</p>
<p>@i took: It’s not “most” because you are comparing one hummingbird to another not all of them. Example: I was better than any other player. NOT: I was best than any other player.</p>
<p>This is 100% correct.</p>
<p>@i took: it COMPLETELY depends on the sentence. if the word “THAN” was used ANYWHERE in there, it would be MORE. If it wasn’t it was most. And come to think of it, i think i put most ;P</p>
<p>i took the sat, “that of any other bird” is correct. good job!! lol</p>
<p>No, I don’t think the chef is the answer because the question was asking about the effect of the questions alone. The questions were meant to portray an opinion he expected to have - he expected it to be humdrum. So the author does not compare it to a chef tasting a new food - he compares it to something repetitive and boring (I forget what the comparison was, but I put answer A)</p>
<p>@globo, This is true if the question truly refers only specifically to the questions, not his impression in general.</p>
<p>Can you be sure this is the case?</p>
<p>@I TOOK</p>
<p>It was not comparing the hummingbird. it was comparing the hummingbird’s BODY. this is key. it said it’s body is more muscular than THAT of (the body of) any other bird, which is why it’s more, not most.</p>
<p>FOR ANYONE ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT BARTHOLOMEW, HERE IS THE QUESTION ALMOST WORD-FOR-WORD:
Although i am well acquainted with bartholowmew and i know of his interest in paintings, I was astonished to find out he went to such lengths to obtain it.
AS FOR THE ANSWER: THE LAST “IT” CAN BE SEEN AS A CONFUSED ANTECEDENT (IT POTENTIALLY CAN REFER TO “INTEREST” AND “PAINTING”) DEPENDING ON HOW YOU READ THE QUESTION. PERSONALLY, I THOUGHT/KNEW IT WAS REFERRING TO PAINTING SO I PUT “NO ERROR”.</p>
<p>Wasn’t it “and I knew of his interest in the painting”?</p>
<p>FOR ANYONE ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT BARTHOLOMEW, HERE IS THE QUESTION ALMOST WORD-FOR-WORD:
Although i am well acquainted with bartholowmew and i know of his interest in the painting, I was astonished to find out he went to such lengths to obtain it.
AS FOR THE ANSWER: THE LAST “IT” CAN BE SEEN AS A CONFUSED ANTECEDENT (IT POTENTIALLY CAN REFER TO “INTEREST” AND “PAINTING”) DEPENDING ON HOW YOU READ THE QUESTION. PERSONALLY, I THOUGHT/KNEW IT WAS REFERRING TO PAINTING SO I PUT “NO ERROR”</p>
<p>I think that’s wrong though because I found “it” to go back to interest; therefore it needed more specification. It took me a while to make the decision though.</p>
<p>Can anyone comment on this:
You usually say that something is “native to a region,” not “is native of a region.” This is because you would use “of” when saying something is “a native of the region.”</p>
<p>Am I right?</p>
<p>Was this “native” one a question?
As for bartholomew, I also put the error in “it” because I found it vague…but I’m still torn…anyone else have an opinion?</p>
<p>I thought it was “it” because it was ambiguous to me, but according to the general consensus it is no error so I likely got it wrong.</p>
<p>General consensus isnt always right - in June at least for one of the writing questions, it was wrong (I know because I disagreed but got 80 mc)</p>
<p>But anyways, I put no error for that one if ur curious</p>
<p>I put something else entirely…I think it was B right before he talks about the painting.</p>
<p>What did you think was wrong with B?
I think the consensus might say it’s wrong b/c conversationally, anyone would understand what he’s saying. But at the same time, it’s not 100% clear so the sentence would at the very least be grammatically IMPROVED by being more specific.</p>
<p>I had two twenty five minute writing sections. The first was difficult and the second was easier. Anyone know which was the experimental?</p>