<p>I believe there are times when the given word is spelled incorrectly on purpose because the correct word and the incorrect one sound the same when pronounced.</p>
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<p>If they test the difference between “better” and “best”, why can’t they test the difference between “insure” and “ensure”?</p>
<p>The SAT DOES test on diction in its writing section. The ‘insured’ question is an example of one. Similar to affect/effect, but those are so famous that they use other similar sounding words that mean differently.</p>
<p>^I think it’s because better and best mean the same thing but depend on the # of things being compared, while insure and ensure mean 2 different things, I hope insuring is still wrong though. >:l</p>
<p>They test diction.</p>
<p>For example, they might have a sentence such as “The motivational speaker was able to [illicit] an impressive emotional response from the high school students.”</p>
<p>You would have to know that “illicit” means illegal and “elicit” (bring forth) is the word you’re looking for.</p>
<p>Agreed, they definitely test diction…</p>
<p>it doesn’t matter if it was ensure or assure- it wasn’t insure, unless the climbing instructor was willing to bet money,lol</p>
<p>i’ve got 221 posts- that’d better be my score</p>
<p>F**** I have like 60</p>
<p>Yeah, they test diction – other example are prospective/perspective, successful/successive.</p>
<p>nice one SharkSAT</p>
<p>So any consensus on the “best/better known for” one? I still feel like it can be No Error because you don’t know the full length of her achievements…</p>
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<p>It doesn’t seem like the CB would ask us to judge whether she had other significant achievements that we should consider in our answer? Based on the content of the sentence, “Better” (or perhaps “Although”, which I’ve also seen?) was a necessary change. I suppose you could be right though.</p>
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<p>Which part of the sentence forces an interpretation which requires ‘better’? Depending on the intended meaning of the sentence, either ‘better’ or ‘best’ could work, so there shouldn’t be an error.</p>
<p>@purplepotato: I believe iwantthis is saying that thinking the actress had more than 2 roles is an assumption on our part. In the context of the sentence, only 2 roles were given, so it would be more correct to use the comparative, not the superlative.</p>
<p>“Although she is best known for her voice-over work in Japanese cartoons, she also starred in this movie” seems to be the most accurate reproduction of the sentence I can find. As I said earlier, if it said “Although most people know her for her voice-over work in Japanese cartoons, she also starred in this movie”, what would you fix?</p>
<p>@purplepotato: That’s a tough one. I don’t think the sentence you proposed has any comparative/superlative problems because it left out better/best. However, I would probably word it like this: Although most people know her for her voice-over work in Japanese cartoons, she is also well-known for her role in this movie.</p>
<p>The point I was trying to make was that when you remove the word ‘best’ but retain the original meaning, there doesn’t seem to be a problem—there seems to be confusion because you’re trying to apply the better/best rule in a situation where it’s irrelevant.</p>
<p>I believe it went something like this: “Although best known for her work in Japanese voice-over cartoons, Kyoko Kishida also starred in the landmark [or some other adjective] 1964 film Woman in the Dunes.”</p>
<p>@ACTTester: The conflict is over whether it should be best known or better known. The general consensus seems to be better known. Though I picked no error myself, I think that the defense in favor of better known might be right. I’m not 100% sure, though.</p>