<p>By the time the bank guard closed the doors, a riot had erupted due to the long lines and shortage of tellers. </p>
<p>A. By the time
B. had erupted
C. due to
D. shortage of</p>
<p>Where should the sentence be fixed? Hint, there is an error in the above sentence but its not A or B. </p>
<p>Can any one find it and please tell me how likely this type of error will show up on the real SAT?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it's D. We can use process of elimination to come to that. C, "due to," sounds perfectly right as it is, as well as A and B (you were right). I think D is wrong because of parallelism, shouldn't it be "By the time the bank guard closed the doors, a riot had erupted due to the long lines and the shorage of tellers?</p>
<p>I could be wrong though.</p>
<p>And to answer your last question, I haven't taken the SATs yet so I don't know how frequent this type of question appears on the SAT.</p>
<p>I also accede with cliff_hanger.
It should be D, maybe "a shortage of tellers', I guess.
I hope that anyone correct me if I'm wrong.</p>
<p>no I think it's C. I think it should be :because of, not due to</p>
<p>I agree with stuck on 1700. It's C, because of.</p>
<p>But "due to" also means "because of"!!!!</p>
<p>yes, the answer is C. It should be corrected as: as a result of. But how is this different from due to and how often is this trickly little devil going to show up on the SAT?</p>
<p>i'd pick "due too" just because it's a suspicious phrase.</p>
<p>"Due to" isn't exactly the same as "because of." "Because of" would be better in this case, because it implies that the lines and the shortage of tellers are the CAUSE of the riots, not just an EXPLANATION for the riots. Kind of subtle... I would've said there was nothing really wrong with the sentence, but I guess I would've been wrong.</p>
<p>Would the college board test a question like this?</p>
<p>Probably not.</p>
<p>i would've answered no error for this question.</p>
<p>if this question was from a workbook not from CB, they generally come up with some wierd questions that don't make sense.</p>
<p>J.Shi, was this from the college board book?</p>
<p>No, Barrons</p>
<p>I would ONLY use Blue Book or a CB SOurce for grammar. I studied the grammar on all 8 tests in the blue book and got an 800.</p>
<p>As was said before, it should be "a shortage of tellers" or "the shortage of tellers", since the previous phrase used the article "the".</p>
<p>yeah, that's what i would think to. This was a weird question. Barron's is hard.</p>
<p>i also think its D because of parallelism as mentioned before.</p>
<p>what a stupid answer, i totally thoguth its D, i mean theres obvisouly a paralleism problem gay barrons</p>
<p>I would have put E - No error, and I got an 800, but whatevvs.</p>