<p>I don’t understand these questions and their answers, could anyone explain:</p>
<li>Harriet Beecher Stowe was renowned not only in the United States but also in Europe: in Rome she could seldom walk through the streets unrecognized.</li>
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<p>A. (Europe: in)
B. (Europe; still, in)
C. (Europe, not even in)
D. (Europe, in)
E. (Europe, including in)</p>
<p>answer is supposed to be A, but shouldn’t it be a semi-colon instead of a colon?</p>
<li>Before he found his current job, (A)had spent several miserable years working in a large commercial bakery where the expression of (B)outrageously offensive opinions (C)wereas common as (D)saying “hello.”. E(NO ERROR)</li>
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<p>Why is C the answer?</p>
<li>(A)Feeling that the committee (B)had<a href=“C”>/u</a>too hastily decided several important issues, Councilman Chambers (D)asked for further consideration be given to his colleague’s proposal. E(NO ERROR)</li>
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<p>Answer is D… D seems perfectly fine to me.</p>
<p>So yeah… I’m totally confused on these problems, any help would be appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>1) The colon shows that an explanation type sentence will follow. "Harriet Beecher Stowe was renowned not only in the United States but also in Europe (which is shown by the fact that) in Rome she could seldom walk through the streets unrecognized." The semi-colon could be right as well except for the fact that choice B changes the meaning of the sentence. If you chose B, it would mean that although Stowe was renowned in the US and Europe, she was always recognized in Rome. That wouldn't make sense since Rome is part of Europe and the two parts are contradictory.</p>
<p>2) C "were" is wrong and should be changed to "was" since the word "expression," which that verb is referring to (It is NOT referring to opinions.) is singular and not plural.</p>
<p>3) D is an error w/ common phrases/expressions. In this case, Councilman Chambers should have "asked THAT" and not "asked for." </p>
<p>"Asked for" would be correct if the rest of the sentence read "asked for further consideration for his colleague's proposal."</p>
<p>Sorry this post is so confusing to read. Tell me if you have any trouble understanding it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply sunshineyday!</p>
<p>I have one question though...
If you could use a colon in place of a semi-colon (an explanation of the previous statement follows after the semi-colon), what's the difference between them? Like what if there was another question I had to choose between a colon and a semi-colon? When should I choose to use a colon and when to use a semi-colon?</p>
<p>thanks again!</p>
<p>like sunshineyday said, the colon signifies that what follows is an example of the previous statement. for other questions, just remember that a semicolon indicates that the two clauses can be separate thoughts. also, the "still" is the key word here, and if a question like this were to come up on the psat or sat, it would almost certainly have a word that makes a choice wrong. because colons and semicolons can be debatable, there would be one of those words.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, what s/he said. It's a pretty nuanced difference so it probably wouldn't be a choice that had either/or without some sort of tweak to one of them, like this question had.</p>
<p>I'm contemplating that username btw.....sounds sort of familiar...</p>
<p>EDIT: By the way, Kevin, don't you have access to myroad on the collegeboard site? That would give you all the answers to your PSAT questions with explanations. The code's on your report sheet.</p>
<p>Oh thanks! I never knew about MyRoad, ahah. Well now I do :D</p>