<p>fresh101-- so there’s no reason why “due to” is wrong?
Btw thanks for your rule on whoever/whomever, it’s so helpful.</p>
<p>“due to” would not have a comma in front of it. That’s why (A) is wrong.</p>
<p>^what silverturtle said. </p>
<p>I also think “due to” is redundant. and can be made concise by the use of because.</p>
<p>silverturtle-</p>
<p>Mediators were standing by, prepared [to intervene] in the labor dispute [even though] both sides [had refused] earlier offers [for] assistance.</p>
<p>I looked this one up and the correct idiom is “offers OF assistance”</p>
<p>I think that’s a better fix than “offers to assist”</p>
<p>So, what is your question? or are you just commenting?</p>
<p>just commenting :)</p>
<p>I wasn’t satisfied with the original fix of “offers to assist” which seems vague and unnecessary to me when all you had to do was change “for” to “of”</p>
<p>Both ways (“of assistance” and “to assist”) seem acceptable in this context. “for assistance” is also acceptable in other contexts.</p>
<p>Hey i am currently in high school.and i am not sure to take the SAT. this year is the last year in high school and at the end of this year there is a national exam(kinda determines the universty you enter) but i don’t wanna attend universty/college in this country(ethiopia) but i am afraid if i take the SAT my attention would be divided and i may not enter here or there. If i take the SAT next year i will have to learn 1 year in ethiopia. and i don’t wanna loss 1 year.what shall i do???</p>
<p>Well, if you don’t want to go to school in the United States, you should probably take the SAT. General help can be found in the stickied threads on the main SAT Preparation page. More specific Writing section help can be found here.</p>
<p>@ fresh101</p>
<p>can you please give me an example of a “whomever” case? i.e. a " him + him" case.</p>
<p>Sure. </p>
<p>We will hire whoever/whomever you recommend.
We will hire him. You recommend him.
him + him = whomever</p>
<p>From Protagonizer,</p>
<p>“The new system, which (uses) remote cameras (in the catching of) (speeding motorists), (may undermine) the police department’s authority. (No error.)”</p>
<p>The poster says the answer is (B). I responded to him by saying, “The best way to rephase it is indeed with ‘to catch,’ but the current way is not grammatically wrong. These questions are not supposed to test whether the sentence uses the BEST choice (that’s for the sentence revision questions); they are merely error-identification, and (B) does not seem erroneous.”</p>
<p>Thoughts? (It seems as if the phrase is a grammatically proper use of a gerund and the associated prepositional phrase.)</p>
<p>@ fresh101 and nitcomp on their discussion of “whomever” and “whoever,”</p>
<p>I’ll just add my thoughts, and you can use them if they make sense.</p>
<p>Pronoun subjects: I, We, You, He, She, They, It, Who, Whoever</p>
<p>Pronoun objects: Me, Us, You, Him, Her, Them, It, Whom, Whomever</p>
<p>When the pronoun is doing something (or more precisely, is preforming the action of a verb phrase), use the appropriate pronoun from the first group. If the pronoun is not performing the action of a verb phrase, use a pronoun from the second list.</p>
<p>There are no exceptions to this method that I can think of right now.</p>
<p>@silverturtle</p>
<p>shouldn’t a noun follow the preposition “of” if there’s a gerund preceding that prepostion, (in this case, “catching…”). I’ve seen instances like that on the SAT’s. Hold on, let me find an example of what i’m talking about. Someone just posted a question like this before.</p>
<p>“shouldn’t a noun follow the preposition ‘of’ if there’s a gerund preceding that prepostion”</p>
<p>I doubt the presence of an adjective in front of the noun “motorists” renders the sentence wrong.</p>
<p>but it does make it awkward sounding, no?</p>
<p>It certainly sounds awkward.</p>
<p>I have 2 questions
1, There is a question in the BB whose two options are almost identical except that one contains “although” while on contains “whereas”. After all, how “whereas” and “although” are different?
2, A grammar book of Cambridge Uni Press says that with a phrase referring to measurement, quantity or amount, singular verb is preferred. Their example is “The fifty pounds he gave me was soon spent”. Has anyone here encountered a situation that can prove or disprove this thesis?</p>
<p>Might the error lie with the phrase “in the catching of…” It seems unidiomatic? (ex. for the catching of seems better)</p>
<p>Thieugia, the second statement is correct. Let me try to find the evidence.</p>
<p>As for your first statement, I can only guess:
I think the subtle difference is that “whereas” sets up a contrast with something, whereas (hehe redundancy ftw) “although” may or may not contrast with something else.</p>
<p>Ex. Whereas Heidi hates hamburgers, Thomas loves them.
You can’t say: Whereas Heidi hates hamburgers, she loves noodles.
But you can use “although” for both cases. (silverturtle/fresh101, corerct me if I’m wrong :p)</p>