<p>The following CR question was on College Board's site for Dec. 27</p>
<p>The edelweiss appears to be ------- is an illusion: the flower actually is incredibly -------, able to survive in extreme temperatures.</p>
<p>The answer is fragile .. resilient</p>
<p>Is this CR sentence grammatically correct? It seems wrong to me. I think it should read "the edelweiss' appearance of fragility is an illusion" or "that the edelweiss appears to be fragile is an illusion" </p>
<p>Am I not seeing something?</p>
<p>Hm, interesting. I see your point. Perhaps I’m not seeing something, as well?</p>
<p>I noticed that, too. The sentence seems like all kinds of wrong, but it doesn’t change the answer.</p>
<p>@SATnotACT: I just looked at the question on their site. You should tell College Board about their typo, haha. And you’re right; if it was grammatically correct, it would read: “[That] the edelweiss appears to be ------- is an illusion: the flower actually is incredibly -------, able to survive in extreme temperatures.” Without the word “that” at the beginning, the first clause before the colon sounds awkward.</p>
<p>I emailed them about it. I will give CB the benefit of the doubt and assume this was a typo. They probably didn’t copy and paste all of it. I certainly hope it didn’t appear on a real test.</p>