SAT May 2009 Writing

<p>I thought Wendy had no error? Can someone explain the two sentences</p>

<p>@d12345: I’m asking what the rest of the sentence is, the one that started with “In order to make a name for herself…”? </p>

<p>As far as I know, the Wendy sentence had no error, but not in like you select choice E, it was in the 14 question set, and I believe was choice A, which is just the sentence as written originally.</p>

<p>O yes sorry I was really confused but I got those answers too.I don’t know the end to that sentence thought</p>

<p>idk the rest of the sentence sorry but i got no error for that one.</p>

<p>Was it in the 14 question or 35 question section?</p>

<p>it was in the 14 questions section</p>

<p>Okay. So I kinda googled the specific words “until revising” to see if anything reliable had similar wording ( Washington post etc.) I only found 2 and they were written in blogs or on sites made by people who COULD make grammatical mistakes. So I dunno. I still stand by my argument, though.</p>

<p>Wendy question had an error.</p>

<p>which was…?</p>

<p>wait now that i think about it. the wendy one was “There is some speculation that…” or There is by some speculation that…" idk</p>

<p>the correct answer, i think, was “is by some speculation”</p>

<p>is there a list of the no error ones?</p>

<p>Wasn’t that the original sentence, so no error?</p>

<p>No, wasn’t the original sentence something along the lines of “There is speculation that the name Wendy…” and the one that (I think) was correct was something along the lines of “The name Wendy is by some speculation…”</p>

<p>How is “The name Wendy is by some speculation” better than “There is speculation that the name Wendy”? I can see arguments for both, but I would like to know your argument.</p>

<p>Which question was this in? I think i got 2-3 As (No Errors) in the 10 minute section</p>

<p>@mulberrypie: Original sentence sure sounds better right now.</p>

<p>In the first of the two MC writing sections.</p>

<p>I forgot the rest of the sentence, but the original sentence made it so that Wendy is no longer speculated to be derived from Peter Pan or something… idk, I remember distinctly having an argument for it, which is why I chose it… if you can recall the actual sentences, I can explain to you.</p>

<p>More than greater than debate is solved. It was no error - you say “fewer than 100 people” or “more than 100 people”. You don’t say there were greater than 100 people - less and more have opposite grammar rules. </p>

<p>I would just like to clear up the “revising them” controversy. The subsidiary adjective clause can take both the “ing” and “ed” forms. In other words this sentence is identical to:</p>

<p>Before going to track, Robert never ate McDonalds.</p>

<p>I think people are getting confused with parallelism because of the ordering of the sentence. </p>

<p>Just my 2 cents.</p>