<p>I don’t have a definite answer concerning the rule, but this won’t appear on the SAT. The SAT doesn’t test this type of punctuation.</p>
<p>[Writing about] people [whose circumstances were deplorable], Dickens used the novel [to protest] social conditions in Victorian England.</p>
<p>The answer is E, no error, but I thought there was something wrong with the first part, especially “writing”, as it seemed like the tense of it was incorrect. </p>
<p>In the [early days] of the steam locomotive, [compassionate] engineers would sometimes [have thrown] coal overboard [in poor] neighborhoods.</p>
<p>The answer is C and I understand that, but I thought that the “in” in part D didn’t sound right and should have been “into” instead.</p>
<p>The survey [showed that] most shoppers who drive prefer the mall [more than] downtown stores [simply because] finding parking is [less difficult] at the mall.</p>
<p>The answer was B and it makes sense but shouldn’t part A have been “shows that” instead of “showed that”?</p>
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Use the present tense to discuss literature and to apply the historical present tense. Writing would be a present participle.</p>
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I think the sentence says that the engineers operated in poor neighborhoods and not that they chose poor neighborhoods as a dump.</p>
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Nothing in the sentence suggests that the past tense is wrong, so if it’s not wrong, just keep it.</p>
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[Writing about] people [whose circumstances were deplorable], Dickens used the novel [to protest] social conditions in Victorian England.<a href=“The%20answer%20is%20No%20error.”>/quote</a>
This does not apply, because the participial phrase (“writing about…”) modifies Dickens, so that part of the sentence is talking about Dickens, not the elements of a work of literature. The sentence says that Dickens used the novel to protest social conditions in Victorian England. He did this in his writing about people whose circumstances were deplorable. Think about what the sentence is talking about. Both actions (writing about something and using the novel to protest something) work hand-in-hand. The two actions kind of take place at the same time. For example:</p>
<p>“Sleeping on the street during rush hour, the man got hit by a huge bus.”</p>
<p>This sentence describes a past event in which the man got hit by a bus while sleeping. “Sleeping” does not imply that he is still sleeping at the time the sentence was said, so it’s not really simple present tense; it just implies that he was sleeping at the time he got hit.</p>
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The survey [showed that] most shoppers who drive prefer the mall [more than] downtown stores [simply because] finding parking is [less difficult] at the mall.</p>
<p>The answer was B and it makes sense but shouldn’t part A have been “shows that” instead of “showed that”? <a href=“The%20answer%20is” title=“more than,” which should be “to” or “over.”>/quote</a>
Both the past and the present tense work. The survey showed something, it still shows something, and it has shown something. All these tenses are correct.</p>
<p>Hmm yea but the historical present does apply though. That the present is used to discuss literature does not apply, yes, but I just threw it in there to give the asker an addtional example of how the present can be used to discuss events that did not happen in the present.
Tense =/= time, basically.</p>
<p><a href=“The%20answer%20is” title=“more than,” which should be “to” or “over.”>quote</a>
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Oh right that is the error, I just said why the problem with the sentence isn’t tense-related. Sorry.</p>
<p>Is the commonly used phrase “Aren’t I…” grammatically incorrect? I think so, because of grammar rules and whatnotall, but also because the positive form is “Am I”. It just seems a bit strange to have a phrase that has such widespread acceptance be incorrect. “Am I not” seems a bit wordy too. Thanks!</p>
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This won’t ever be tested. “Aren’t I” is correct because it is a contraction of “am I not.” Just because it has an “are” in it doesn’t mean it only means “are not.” It has a secondary definition, too. Contractions are kind of like idioms. They mean whatever is widely accepted. You can’t create a contraction that seems logical and expect it to be “correct” just because of the spelling; “there’re” obviously means “there are” but it is not widely used and accepted and therefore it is not correct. However, “there’re” is understood and fine in informal occasions. </p>
<p>“Am I not” is correct as well, but perhaps more formal. “Aren’t I” is more popular.</p>
<p>WR questions:
Joining a grassroots movement against inhumane working conditions, some consumers in the United States [have stopped buying] products from countries [in which] workers are [essentially] a [slave laborer]. I consider that in the place of “in which” must be “where”.What page of your guide?</p>
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<p>Why there is no error in this sentence?
An amateur potter [herself], the accountant offered [to help] the artist with his business accounts, complcated [as they were] [by] his unusual system of record keeping.</p>
<p>^ workers can’t be a single slave laborer, so D is the answer for the first question.</p>
<p>what mean “slave laborer”?</p>
<p>^ That is not important for this question, but if you really want to know, search up google.
What I mean is: if you assume the sentence said 20 workers, those 20 workers cannot represent a single slave laborer. 20 is not 1.</p>
<p>For the second question, there is no error. It may help to break it down a bit/change the syntax a bit to see that it is correct.</p>
<p>A can be changed into a more commonly used form:
She is herself an amateur potter.
You can see that this can be changed to “An amateur potter herself…” and it is still correct.
Herself is used because the subject is “She”.</p>
<p>B should be obvious.</p>
<p>C - read it without the rest of the sentence.
… complicated as they were.
This sounds right… I suppose it might be considered an idiom…</p>
<p>Then for D, read it without C.
… complicated by his unusual method of record keeping.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>where it describes in silverturtle’s guide? page?
I usually score 18-20/35 and 6/11 in WR.
I hope s.t guide will help.</p>
<p>[A] After [A] climbing the rocks that led to the 150-feet-long breakers, the children walked along the full length of the [ B] prodigious ** and slippery stones, from [C] one [C] end of [D] it [D] to the other. E no error
I think its E but Barrons 2400 says it is D because it doesn’t agree with the antecedent stones- but I thought the subject of the sentence is never inside of a prepositional phrase?</p>
<p>Rita Dove, African American writer and teacher, as poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995.</p>
<p>(A) Rita Dove, African American writer and teacher, as
(B) Rita Dove was an African American writer and teacher as
(C) African American writer and teacher Rita Dove was
(D) African American writer and teacher, Rita Dove was
(E) An African American writer and teacher, it was Rita Dove
Answer</p>
<p>Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the sentence fragment error of the original by providing a main verb, “was,” for the subject of the sentence, “Rita Dove.”</p>
<p>I thought it was D…</p>
<p>I’m too lazy to go through all 50 pages to see if all of these questions were already answered, but I have some questions from Barron’s SAT 2400.</p>
<p>1.Henry enjoys movies [more then theater going since the latter do] not have the distractions associated with set changes and intermission.</p>
<p>The only 2 viable answers were:
C. than theater since the former do
E. than theater since the former does</p>
<p>I chose C and the answer is E, but since the “distractions”, I think, refer to more than one movie, shouldn’t the answer be E?</p>
<p>2.Before dinner was served [during] the American Airlines flight from New York to Rome, the brothers [began] to watch “Scary Movie 3” [on] [their] dad’s laptop DVD player. [no error]</p>
<p>I chose B, began, but the answer is E, no error. I thought it should’ve been “had begun” since the movie watching takes place before dinner was served.</p>
<p>Delgado’s dilema was a. (like many other) young writers: he (had to choose) between assured publication in a student magazine c. (and) d. (probable rejection by) a popular magazine. </p>
<p>I chose E but the answer is E. Can anyone explain why?</p>
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<p>Because it is?</p>
<p>The answer is actually A. There is an incorrect comparison in the sentence. If the sentence is kept the way it is, Delgado’s “dilemma” is being compared to “other young writers,” when it should be “Delgado’s dilemma” being compared to “the dilemmas of other young writers.” So, “like many other” should be changed to “like that of many other.”</p>
<p>Nursing and physical therapy [are an example of health-care fields that] have shortages in staffing. </p>
<p>a)are an example of health-care fields that
b) are examples of health0care fields that
c) are examples where health-care fields
d) exemplifies a health-care field that
e) exemplify health-care fields where they</p>
<p>why can’t it be c?</p>
<p>I believe it’s B. “where” shouldn’t be used in this sentence, since it’s talking about nursing and physical therapy.</p>