<p>Oopsies I posted in the wrong thread. My bad.</p>
<p>Yeah but just because you search something on google and find that someone has used it…doesn’t mean that’s the proper grammar. I’m sorry to say insistence on is grammatically correct. Class 1- Idiomatic.I’m sure of myself because I saw what questions I missed and they were the last two improving paragraphs on the last one. I know what I’m doing I was really tired on that test. Stop being stupid and reason it out…if it is number 12 in the last section of the SAT, they aren’t going to give you something so easy…f u cking ■■■■■■■■ elitist piece of s hit…</p>
<p>@alarge</p>
<p>The problem here is that you haven’t provided any evidence for “insist on” other than “it’s idiomatic”, so people are finding it hard to believe you. </p>
<p>Also, it could have very well been a relatively easy question. In the Blue Book, the majority of practice tests have “Medium” difficulty for question 12 in section 10; thus, question 12 isn’t necessarily mindbogglingly difficult. Personally, I think that choosing “insistence that” out of the the choices presented already constituted “Medium” difficulty. </p>
<p>Finally, I suggest that you steer away from profanity.</p>
<p>Bro umad? I was reading about subjunctive mood, not your little idiom. Would you just drop it already? I acknowledged the fact that the answer choice you’re so desperately defending could still be correct.</p>
<p>@everyone else, what was the exist wording of the sentence? I thought that they had the verb form of insistence as an anwer choice also.</p>
<p>@jiggo
I believe they may have replaced “insistence” with “insist” in one of the answer choices…</p>
<p>However, if I remember correctly, the rest of that answer choice had some fairly obvious errors, so you would have had to stick with “insistence”.</p>
<p>I think it was between
“insistence that the family gather”
and
“insistence on the family gathering” or “insistence on the family to gather”</p>
<p>Do we have any more to add to the original list of 16?</p>
<p>for use in (bacteria)
when rubbed on a magnet, a needle becomes magnetic
much of her projects many of her projects
no error for dropping 160 feet per mile
multinational corporations- to train
burrows,
California California’s
people could now go to high floors effortlessly
insistence that the family gather
more harsh more harshly
whose (leopard)
insisted that the family gather
one author was not as intricate in his writing as were [two authors]
inca question but
before sentence ten
One was Steel manufacturing (sentence/paragraph improvement)</p>
<p>16/45</p>
<p>it was “insistence that the family gather” vs. “insistence on the family to gather”</p>
<p>so which one of those is correct?</p>
<p>@ swoony
As far as I know the three "no error"s were:
- sentence about river dropping a steep 138 feet
- sentence about cave paintings in India(?) dating back to something
- sentence about bacteria prepared for use in the experiment</p>
<p>There was also some sentence comparing Nebraska’s population to California’s population, and you had to replace “California” with “California’s”</p>
<p>@gt
the “insistence that” seems right to me (though I’m probably biased to some extent). The “insistence on” sentence just doesn’t sound right</p>
<p>@krungle
I put for use in → to use in for that. Sounds like for use in isn’t idiomatic…
What was the cave paintings one? I don’t remember that.
And yes I agree, insistence that sounds more proper. Plus the option was less wordy.</p>
<p>Hmm ok, if swoony remembered correctly, I still don’t know what the answer is even after reading online 
I guess I’ll ask my friends/teacher about it.</p>
<p>When I was doing it I was stuck between “that the family gather” or “that the family gatherED” and I went with the latter… so no matter what I still got it wrong.</p>
<p>@krungle
So…for use in?
And what was the India question?</p>
<p>@swoony I thought I remembered the phrase “for use in” cropping up some readings, which is why I thought it was fine. </p>
<p>I think your correction would still result in a grammatically correct sentence…I’m just not sure if it was completely necessary.</p>
<p>I don’t know if the country was India…but the sentence was talking about some place having cave paintings dating back to some amount of years ago. It was mentioned back in post 67 and the consensus seemed to be no error</p>
<p>I am almost positive that the bacteria one was not no error. it was for use change to to use.</p>
<p>@krungle
Right I think I put NE for that one. I remember looking at “dating back” underlined and wondering if it was idiomatic, deciding that it was and then not picking it. Lol.
Also, if you have time, can you check the CR thread, lol.
What do you think the curve for writing will be?</p>
<p>@ alarge</p>
<p>A google search suggests to me that “for use in” is certainly viable…but I know you don’t accept google searches as evidence, so I’ll just say you’re entitled to your own opinion.</p>
<p>@swoony</p>
<p>I think the curve might be something like -1 for 77 or 78</p>
<p>@krungle
If I get a 10, 11, or 12 essay, what would a 78 amount to?</p>
<p>Swoony, more like Pruny, amirite?</p>
<p>¯_(ツ)_/¯</p>
<p>They said the needed to culture the bacteria for use in the experiment… you always want something doing on the sat— therefore bacteria to use in the experiment.</p>
<p>Also I hope you accept the english free dictionary and help from one of my friends who got 2350 and another who got 2380- and another who superscored 2400, [INSIST</a> THAT - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.](<a href=“INSIST THAT]INSIST - Idioms by The Free Dictionary”>INSIST THAT - Idioms by The Free Dictionary)</p>
<p>Did anyone get, Rising 138 feet high,?</p>
<p>Sorry, I got Rising 139 feet high.</p>