SAT Grammar

<p>The television has received (a) many complaints about (b) the clothing advertisements, which some (c) viewers condemn to be (d) tasteless. No error</p>

<p>The furnace exploded, blowing off the door, spraying greasy soot all over the basement floor, and it would rattle furniture and windowpanes throughout the building.
A. it would rattle
B. it rattled
C. causing the rattling of
D. the result was to rattle
E. rattling
correct :b</p>

<p>For the first one, the answer is D.</p>

<p>It should be “as being tasteless.”</p>

<p>For the second one, the answer is E, not B.</p>

<p>The television station (has received) many complaints (about) the clothing advertisements, (which some) viewers condemn (to be) tasteless. (No error.)</p>

<p>The correct usage is “condemn as tasteless”. So (D).</p>

<p>See: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/755456-condemn-being-grammatically-incorrect.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/755456-condemn-being-grammatically-incorrect.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>bump </p>

<p>I don’t know why the answer of the second one is E??? I picked B.</p>

<p>Plz answer my question… thx</p>

<p>Someone please heeeeeelp?! Thx!!!</p>

<p>The furnace exploded, blowing off the door, spraying greasy soot all over the basement floor, and it would rattle furniture and windowpanes throughout the building. </p>

<p>The question is testing ‘parallelism’.</p>

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<p>In this sentence, there is a parallelism error, for which you have to replace it would to rattling.</p>

<p>I see. Thx!</p>