<p>I remember it now (not verbatim): "Neither Eileen nor Sarah (?) was able to fit the courses into her schedule."</p>
<p>There's nothing wrong with it.</p>
<p>now its right</p>
<p>Yeah, I put what techzilla is taking about.</p>
<p>You're right... I know it was "was" because the first thing I looked at was the subject-verb agreement. Will change it.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, that's it. Hmm.. now only if I could remember what I put.</p>
<p>yeah so the answer was E then</p>
<p>I put down E, yeah.</p>
<p>I thought it was Neither Eileen or Sarah WERE... so i corrected were and put down the letter for that... don't quite remember exactly tho</p>
<p>yea the one about the jazz was "Louie Armstrong did not invent jazz, nor was he its first great soloist..." was it nor because nor only goes with neither?</p>
<p>and i'm pretty sure rarified doesn't fit context in the sentence with the "heights more than six miles"</p>
<p>It said "Louis Armstron was neither the inventor of jazz nor its first soloist" or something.. I put "No Error" for that one</p>
<p>It was "rarefied" and it means become less thin/dense.. it talks about fuel or something
so I'd say it does fit in context..</p>
<p>Those of you who were talking about the rarified at heights question: I was pretty positive in that the mistake in the sentence was 'more'. Rarified at heights more than whatever blah blah. Rarified at heights GREATER than whatever blah blah? no?</p>
<p>I agree with smandel.</p>
<p>I thought "heights of more" was right, so I thought that was the mistake.</p>
<p>Guys, I have a question. I only wrote 4 paragraphs for my essay, but I wrote a lot, and I brought in a really personal example to answer the question (my father as a firefighter sacrificing himself to save a mother and 3 kids from a burning house), and I thought it was really good. Do you think the 4 paragraphs and (hopefully) 1 slight grammar mistake I made will really affect my score that much?</p>
<p>smackedk- dont worry about it that seems fine. I hear that length surpasses content on the essay. So as long as those were pretty solid and long paragraphs, you're fine even with that one mistake. </p>
<p>As for this:
It took Sarah several months to decide between investing in the stock market or buying a new estate as a possible use of her inheritance."
---Shouldn't it be 'between _____ AND _______ as a possible use of her inheritance?
it sounds right and seems right that you would be comparing two options, and using or isn't comparing them but separating them.</p>
<p>yes, it should be AND (but I put E :()</p>
<p>"thought it was Neither Eileen or Sarah WERE... so i corrected were and put down the letter for that... don't quite remember exactly tho"
^^ you're definitely right. I remember clearly that it said "were," but I guess we'll find out soon enough :</p>
<p>i got like three Es in a row at some point...</p>
<p>smadel, ur right, it should be "and". I also got E No Error for the Louis Armstrong one. Neither Eileen or Sarah one is written with "were", the error. And the rarefied one, I also got "more" as the error b/c it should be "of more", making it a descriptive adjective. I don't know about the essay, I didn't even know how they'll grade the essay. I didn't prepare for this writing exam at all. I also wrote four paragraphs; it should be fine as long as the content is great. Tell me I'm wrong.</p>
<p>there was one about the fact that so many people signed up for the fitness class, attests to the fact that it is needed.. or something like that. I left that one blank</p>
<p>chidimma,
I said for that question that attests should be attest... i think it was a plural verb because of the plural pronoun many?? don't quite remember exactly, but I said attests was wrong</p>
<p>it was no error because it started with (That.....) attests..... the () that i indicated signifies a dependent clause which can be substituted as a singular noun. Just like what i did just then: (that i indicated) signifies. you know what i mean?</p>
<p>i think attests is right, since it's referring to "the fact". "the fact attest" doesn't sound right, but "the fact attests" does.</p>