Practice Test Writing Questions, help/explain please!

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<p>1) Eager to get and early start on the day, Caroline woke up at 8 A.M. in the morning and made plans to practice the drums, study, and go for a walk. No error</p>

<p>The answers is the "8 A.M. in the morning" is an error.</p>

<p>2) Every year, a majority of students considers the course's final exam difficult, but there are always a few who feel well about how they did. No error</p>

<p>The answer is "well" is an error.</p>

<p>3) Much of the literature on the Civil War, particularly those works that characterize him as the perfect foil to Ulysses S. Grant, portray Robert E. Lee as a grand anachronism. No error</p>

<p>The answer is "portray" is an error.</p>

<p>Please explain the errors to me.</p>

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<p>For number 1, the only thing I could think of saying “in the morning” is redundant if you say “8 AM”</p>

<p>For number 2, You don’t say… for example… “I feel happily,” you say “I feel happy.” You need an adjective “good,” not an adverb “well.” Well is only used when you feel healthy.</p>

<p>For number 3, “Much of the literature” is singular, so it would be “portrays” not “portray.”</p>

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<p>Thanks for your help. I also thought the only thing wrong with the first one was a little redundancy. I didn’t think that counted, so I chose no error, but I guess it does.</p>

<p>NOTE: Sorry for any typos, like <em>an</em> early start in #1.</p>

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<p>Redundancy most definitely counts…although it’s not as commonly tested in Error ID questions as it is in Sentence Improvement ones.</p>

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<p>No problem :slight_smile: I felt special that I actually knew all of these since I did pretty sucky on the writing part of the SAT (670… but with an 8 essay so with a 12 it would have easily been a 700). I’m good at seeing why errors are wrong, but I’m not good at finding them in the first place. Thankfully, the ACT was nice to me :D</p>