OCTOBER 2009 Writing

<p>I put B. :slight_smile: :)</p>

<p>would someone be as nice to assemble the confirmed cumulative list?</p>

<p>For those who are you wondering, </p>

<p>I got a 12 on my essay and -7, and still manged to get a 730 on the Writing</p>

<p>The rule for the birdie thing is this, @ dream:</p>

<p>He is better than any other student. (He is a student)
He is better than any student. (He isn’t a student)</p>

<p>ā€œA biography is but oneā€¦ā€ was that experimental, b/c i wasn’t sure about it? i don’t remember having any uncertainities on the real section…</p>

<p>What the answer to the one about Dalton’s theory? </p>

<p>That was no error right?</p>

<p>can you tell me the context of the dalton theory question?</p>

<p>^I got no error for Dalton.</p>

<p>Also for the painting one, did it have the word ā€œtheā€ before the word painting? Because if it did, that changes everything. Consensus is shattered in that case.</p>

<p>I remember that there was no ā€œtheā€ but I’m not sure at all. If there wasn’t ā€œtheā€, there was no error.</p>

<p>there was a ā€œthe.ā€ hence, no error.</p>

<p>what was the dalton question exactly?</p>

<p>Wait, there was?</p>

<p>Hmm. I don’t know then.</p>

<p>Could someone tell me what the dalton and painting questions were?</p>

<p>The bird one compared the body of the bird. THEREFORE the answer is 100% ā€œmore __ than that of any other bird.ā€
done deal.</p>

<p>Also, there was a question with MUCH underlined. Was that the error or was it no error?</p>

<p>The exact wording for #23 was:</p>

<p>ā€œWhile I am acquainted with Mr. Bartholomew and have long known of his interest in the painting, that he would go to such lengths to obtain it astonishes me.ā€</p>

<p>I put C (obtain it) because it is ambiguous. I believe there is a grammar rule that states that a pronoun’s antecedent cannot be introduced in a prepositional phrase. The prepositional phrase here would be ā€œin the paintingā€. Also, although it is pretty clear what ā€œitā€ refers to, ā€œinterestā€ is certainly a possible antecedent. I guess one can’t really obtain ā€œinterestā€ though…</p>

<p>However, I was very tempted to choose E because I have never seen an ambiguous pronoun error such as this before. I have seen hundreds of practice tests and real exams, and a difficult question like this is rarely given as early as #23. If it appeared as a 26-29, I probably would have chosen C without a doubt.</p>

<p>So…it’s up in the air for me. Not really confident about either choice, but if they decide its (E), it should be a voided question.</p>

<p>oh and cadillac is right about the question.</p>

<p>i think whoever is arguing for ā€œmostā€ didn’t spot the comparison error. the sentence is comparing the body of the hummingbird. i believe E failed to address that.</p>

<p>****. majesticmako, I think you’re right. But who knows?</p>

<p>I personally thought this writing was hard… much harder than March (for me, 780/10).</p>

<p>the ONLY time SAT will put ambiguity up for a possible answer choice is if the sentence is actually and obviously ambiguous, i.e.</p>

<p>ā€œMary and Karla bought blue dresses, although she bought the blue dress with frillsā€ where ā€œsheā€ WOULD MAKE SENSE when referring to Mary or Karla.</p>

<p>however, ā€œitā€ in the Bartholomew question clearly refers to painting–besides, people don’t usually go to far lengths to ā€œobtain interestā€ anyways. ETS is not this tricky.</p>

<p>does anyone remember how the question was written for the Science fair one??
I don’t remember what i chose… either a or b…</p>

<p>Is ā€œhave known ofā€ even a proper idiom? I thought it was ā€œknown aboutā€.</p>

<p>I dont think the question was phrased ā€œgreek and roman literatureā€, i think it was ā€œgreek literature and roman sagasā€ or something like that…</p>

<p>I thought the problem w/ the sentence was that ā€˜greek literature and roman sagas’ could not refer to a singular pronoun.</p>

<p>The other plausible problem w/ the statement was that ā€˜they’ cannot refer to ā€˜greek literature and roman sagas’</p>

<p>does anyone remember the wording of the question??</p>