Official May Sat Writing and Essay Thread

<p>What what your essay prompts?</p>

<p>correction: What <em>were</em> your essay prompts?</p>

<p>mine was can knowledge ever be a burden rather than [something positive]</p>

<p>i forgot exactly what it was</p>

<p>does anyone have the answers to the #14-29 grammar questions (or compile a list of them) ?</p>

<p>Ok, so heres the thing on the "than" question i got it. </p>

<ol>
<li><p>Twice as much time flows forwards as flows backwards. </p></li>
<li><p>twice as much time flows forwards as backwards.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>sentence 1 is just a shortened version of sentence 2.</p>

<p>It should be as impact, i got it wrong.</p>

<p>I got hung up on this one writing question at the beginning...it was actually easy but I was never sure.</p>

<p>Remember that one about the hippos that can trod and run on water? The sentence started with "Because..."? If the answer was E, I got 800...</p>

<p>that was an experimental.</p>

<p>YES!!!! Barring my essay was a 12 (I don't see how it couldn't have been), I got an 800!</p>

<p>SigmaCentauri,</p>

<p>Nope. Your idioms (and both versions of your sentence) are wrong. The sentence should read "There are twice as many dogs in my house <em>as</em> in your house (the "in" is necessary to keep the parallelism and convey the right meaning: you're comparing dogs with dogs, and not dogs with a house). Sure, in everyday speech, one might say "...than your house," but that is not grammatically correct.</p>

<p>In the actual question, it's "...as inhabit..." You'll notice it's the same structure as above.</p>

<p>Ditto to that.</p>

<p>I put "as in inhabit" as well. It was the last question of its section. It's "hard." And "as inhabit sounded weird.</p>

<p>How many questions were no errors for identifying sentence errors</p>

<p>I had one for the second to last one #28
one for the person finding something wandering around (I think there is actually a mistake here)
and another one I forget where possible #26</p>

<p>it is "as inhabit" maybe.</p>

<p>but you can't compare it to the "....in your house" sentence, because "as in your house" involves a preposition, not a verb.</p>

<h1>28 had an error, it had an inanimate object wandering.</h1>

<p>no the wandering one wasn't #28</p>

<p>for my essay, I chose to talk about the play, the "death of a salesman"... was this appropriate? your imputs are greatly appreciated!</p>

<p>I ran out of room on my essay, and my conclusion was only one sentence.</p>

<p>will this have a significant effect on my score?</p>

<p>i don't know how people used all that space. mine was 1.5 pages, i barely finished, and i wrote from the moment we were able to start.</p>

<p>Agirllikeme, I Used death of a salesman too!</p>

<p>For the Seeds of Peace writing part, what did you guys put as the answer for "this paragraph would be better if..."</p>

<p>the choices were like, if you said which countries the people came from, etc. Idk, that's what I put anyway, but i'm not sure if I'm right</p>

<p>yeah i think i said that too art star</p>

<p>what were the choices, i remember being torn on that one</p>

<p>what was the second no error you guys got?</p>

<p>one of them was #28 (second to last), what was the other one?</p>