<p>Thanks silverturtle.</p>
<p>I have the same question…why does #3 have to be perfect tense AND how should #4 be corrected?</p>
<p>So each gerund needs to modified by his, her, its, (whatever those are called)?</p>
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<p>Some gerunds are clear without a modifier. When we do modify them, we use possessive pronouns.</p>
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<p>“its not being”</p>
<p>Can you give me some examples of gerunds being clear without modifiers?</p>
<p>I would have gotten 2 and 4 wrong. :(</p>
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<p>“I like running.”</p>
<p>Can you identify the subject and the verb in the above sentence? I can’t seem to find them.</p>
<p>Just kidding.</p>
<p>Thanks !!! I’m (<<Modifier) taking the october SAT. Will you (silverturtle) ever take the ACT? or take the SAT again for another 2400?</p>
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<p>“I” is a nominative, first-person, singular pronoun acting as the subject of the present, active, singular, catenative verb “like,” which is followed by its gerund complement, “running.” (“like” and “running” together serve as the predicate.)</p>
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<p>Yes, I will participate in the state-mandated administration in April.</p>
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<p>Definitely. :)</p>
<p>Have you ever taken the ACT? What are your thoughts on it? As I’m looking into it more and more, it seems that I am much better off taking the ACT because I’m much better at it. I got a 161 PSAT without study, which by my standards is terrible b/c I want to get into a prestigious dental program at Penn, but I’m thinking that I’d probably get a 30-31 composite in the ACT without study (~2000 equivalent).</p>
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<p>I haven’t worked much with the ACT. My general impression is that the test seems to tend more toward an assessment of achievement than of aptitude (with respect to the SAT). If you find that you are better at the ACT even after preparing a bit with both, just focus on that test if you want.</p>
<p>@silver’s "We use the present perfect tense because the revision occurs before the submission. "</p>
<p>So what does that mean? Why can’t we basically use the past tense?</p>
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<p>You can’t use the past tense because it disagrees with the present tense in “Helen never submits anything”</p>
<p>You can’t use the simple present either because one always occurs before the other.</p>
<p>“I never eat until my meeting” implies that you eat, or at least may eat, during the meeting, as opposed to only after the meeting.</p>
<p>“Helen never submits anything until she revises it” has the same issue.
“Helen never submits anything until she has revised it” resolves that issue by shifting the time of occurrence to a time in which she has completed the revision.</p>
<p>Susan, my friend (since) junior high school, believes she is (more well suited) to a career in the sciences (than to) the business career her parents (have urged her) to pursue. No error</p>
<p>What is the error and why?</p>
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<p>“more well” can be economized into “better.”</p>
<p>you’re good. so, would you classify that as an error in diction, wordiness, or comparative/superlative errors?</p>
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<p>All of the above.</p>
<p>In winter, when the ponds froze over, the villagers went skating, (and the most venturesome of whom played chase and executed) complicated turns on the ice.</p>
<p>C. in that the most venturesome played chased and executed
D. with the most venturesome playing chase and executing </p>
<p>I picked C because I thought D had a tense error. The sentence says that the pond froze and the villagers went, which makes the sentence past tense.</p>
<p>^ “playing” and “executing” are adjectives, not verbs in that context and therefore have no tense.</p>
<p>how do you determine that?</p>
<p>Chase is a noun, and playing modifies it.</p>
<p>Also D should be be the better choice, because you one to maintain parallelism, with “skating”</p>