Sat Writing Help Please.

<p>Questions from the 2010 Official PSAT.</p>

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<li>(Once a model) of corporate efficiency, the company (had) by the late 1990s become so large and bureaucratic (to where) it could no longer (compete with) smaller firms. </li>
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<p>Answer is "to where" . What would be the correct way of saying it? I chose "had". I thought you only use perfect past to show an event prior to another, so why is it correct in this sentence?</p>

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<li>Egypt's chief archaeologist (has reported) (the discovery of) a pyramid thought to (be built) some 4,300 years ago for (the founder of) the Old Kingdom's Sixth Dynasty. </li>
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<p>Answer is "be built" What would be the correct way of saying it? I chose "has" because I thought just reported will be fine. When would you use "has"</p>

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<li>*Were they to be told * of the defendant's criminal record, the jurors would be unable to consider the current case without bias.</li>
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<p>A. Same
B. If they would have been told
C. To tell them
D. By telling them
E. By them being told</p>

<p>Answer is A. I chose B because it uses "would" which is also used later on.</p>

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<li><p>“to where” just sounds wrong if you think and read it out loud; a better way of saying it would be just “where”
Also "had isn’t wrong because the company/ies had become bad by the 1990s, which is in the past.</p></li>
<li><p>Don’t change stuff that’s ok to begin with, “has reported” is fine. The correction to the answer should be “thought to have been built”</p></li>
<li><p>Repeating “would” would (ha) be redundant. A is the most concise and clear option. There isn’t anything wrong with A anyways?</p></li>
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<p>Cheers</p>

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<li><p>Why is “has reported” fine?.I’m bad at tenses, but don’t you use present perfect for actions that are occurred in the past and continues to the present? So I thought just using “fine” is correct.</p></li>
<li><p>I thought repeating would, would show parallelism.</p></li>
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<li><p>Past perfect is applicable here because we don’t know when the archaeologist finished speaking. Google past perfect and you’ll see why this works.</p></li>
<li><p>Parallelism is nice, but the length of B is kinda outta hand. You generally want to shoot for the concise answers on the writing sections.</p></li>
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<p>“to where” should be replaced with “that”. That would be idiomatically correct.</p>

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<li>“Where” can only be used for places. On the SAT, if “where” is not used to modify a place, it is wrong.</li>
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