SAT Writing Help!!

Hey,

It would be great if you can help me with the following question.

Tell me where you have been and [an account of] your activities there.
(A) an account of
(B) your accounting of
© what you account of
(D) what account you had made of
(E) give me an account of

I chose A, but the correct answer is E. While I understand that accounts are “given” not “told,” I didn’t pick E because it joins two independent clauses without a comma before the “and”. I thought the correct answer should be:

Tell me where you have been, and give me an account of your activities there.

But since the comma was missing, A seemed correct to me.

Read the sentence. There is a mistake when you say tell me… And an account…
It should be tell me … And give me …

Thanks!!! But shouldn’t there be a comma before the “and” since it is introducing an independent clause?

No comma is required if the subject is not repeated (correct me if I am wrong)

Bantzking,

Yes, I think you’re right about that; however, this sentence doesn’t seem to have an explicitly mentioned subject. I think that’s why I got confused. Thank you!

The implied subject is ‘you’