<p>So, the addition of “its” makes it redundant?</p>
<p>I believe so. What do you think?</p>
<p>the option beginning with “beginning…” is most clearly the right answer because of its correct modification with the subject, but shouldn’t the second clause focus on the Spingarn Medal, and thus begin with a type of modification that modifies the Medal, not the person?</p>
<p>Now that i see your explanation, it’s a bit more clear.
Here’s another writing question that supports this answer…
American journalist (Harriet Quimby, the first woman to pilor a plane across the English channel, doing it) just nine years after the Wright brothers’ first powered flight.
Answer D; Harriet Quimby became the first woman to pilot a plane across the English Channel, accomplishing this feat.
Here accomplishing is modifying the subject Harriet Quimby. So that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.</p>
<p>To insist that a poem means whatever one wants it to mean is often ignoring the intention and even the words of the poet. No error</p>
<p>I’m assuming it’s “ignoring,” which should be “to ignore” to preserve parallelism.</p>
<p>^that’s right.</p>
<p>(Contrasting with) (most other) fifteenth-century rulers, Portugese Kings could (count on) the support of the aristocrasy (in any) overseas venture.
The answer is A, but I don’t understand why. :-??</p>
<p>^It’s unidomatic . The correct answer should be “In contrast with…”</p>
<p>Even if you weren’t familiar with the idiom, you could figure it out with logic. The King’s presence of support itself is not contrasting with anything. One could, however, contrast this presence of support with those who do not have support.</p>
<p>A Raisin in the Sun won for its author Lorraine Hansberry the distinction of being the first African American to receive the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award.</p>
<p>A. of being the first African American to receive
B. to be the first African American receiving
C. of the first African American to receive
D. that she had been the first African American to receive
E. that she was to be the first African American having received</p>
<p>I subtly get why A is the correct answer, but would rather have it clearly explained. Could any body help?</p>
<p>The preposition “of” necessitates the use of a noun following it, which is successfully accomplished by the gerund “being”. —On a sidenote, the only times “being” will be used on the SAT are when it’s acting as a noun.</p>
<p>Bats and mosquitos come out at twilight, (and the bats would look for mosquitos and the mosquitos would look) for people
A) and the bats would look for mosquitos and the mosquitos would look
B) and the bats come to look for mosquitos while the mosquitos look
C) the bats look for mosquitos and the mosquiots are looking
D) the bats looking for mosquiots while mosquitos would look for
E) the bats to look for mosquitos and the mosquitos to look</p>
<p>I think this problem is a verb tense errror. The subjunctive word “would” is used to indicate something contrary to fact. The fact that bats actually come out at twilight, eliminates the possibiilyt of the use of “would”, eliminating A,and D. C is inconsistent with the verb tenses. E doesnt have proper conjunction. “the” is not a conjunction linking two seperate clause. This leaves me with B. Does anyone agree with this?</p>
<p>Once again, I don’t have the answer key.</p>
<p>Here’s another one im sure of but just need confirmation.
Benin was the first sub-Saharan African country to experience a “civilian coup”: (they were a regime that was dominated by the armed forces and obliged by) citizens to implement democratic reforms.
A) they were a regime that was dominated by the armed forces and obliged by
B) they had been a regime that was dominated by the armed forces, when they were obliged to
C) it had a regime, armed forces dominating, but then were obliged to
D) armed forces dominated them until this regime were obliged by
E) a regime, dominated by the armed forces, was obliged by
I believe the answer is E because A and B cannot be true since “they” should be singular taking its antecedent
“civilian coup”. C is redundant because after a colon, you really don’t need a pronoun to imply the relationship between the two clauses; that relationship is already implied. D is a passive sentence because the subject in that clause should be the “regime”. We’re left with E. Does anyone else agree?</p>
<p>Yeah, (E) is right for the second question you posed. (However, (C) is wrong both because of the incongruous pronoun “it” and its verb “were” as well as the fact that the participial phrase is somewhat of a squinting modifier.)</p>
<p>For the first question, answer (B) seems perfectly grammatically acceptable despite being a bit awkward in the way it sounds. The only reason it would be wrong is if the College Board considers the use of the coordinating conjunction “and” to not be the best choice. If this were the case, then I’d have to go with (E).</p>
<p>I don’t see a reason that explains the incorrect usage of the coordinating conjunction “and”, that is, if the Collegeboard deems it to not be the best answer. Having said that, I would not go with E because “the” , acting as a coordinating conjuncition, is not any better than “and”. Also, questions that test coordinating conjunction knowledge in the CB practice tests have “and” more frequently as the answers; no question, i can think of, has “the” used as a coordinating conjunction.</p>
<p>“the” is not being used as a coordinating conjunction, nor can it ever be. </p>
<p>With that said, I’m nearly sure (B) is the answer.</p>
<p>“the” is not being used as a coordinating conjunction, nor can it ever be. </p>
<p>What is “the” being used as then?</p>
<p>Nothing more than a definite article. (This makes me more confident that (E) is wrong because the infinitives can’t grammatically comprise the participial phrase, which is what the final phrase would have to be in order to be correct.)</p>
<p>The bats and mosquitoes answer is** E**. B, C, and D lack parallelism and A is wrong as well.</p>
<p>Can you elaborate on the absence of parallelism in choice (B)?</p>
<p>B has the structure “come to look…look” instead of “come to look…come to look” or “look…look.”</p>
<p>I don’t think that is a lack of parallelism. The verbs are in the same form even if one contains an infinitive as part of its predicate; the infinitive comes after the parallel “come.”</p>
<p>This seems analogous to, “Bob wants to eat his food while Sally watches.” If one thinks of choice (B) as describing two concurrent actions, it is parallel.</p>