Some difficult writing questions

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<p>Hello dear colleagues,</p>

<p>could somebody help with these? :)</p>

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<p>Thank you in advance</p>

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<ol>
<li>D. Not idiomatically correct. Should be “for being”.</li>
<li>D. Should be “any other tool”.</li>
<li>D. “they” is ambiguous as it is not referring to anything.</li>
<li>C. It is the only one that uses the noun “rapidity”, which is somewhat parallel to the first sentence.</li>
<li>C. It is the only that subordinates the second clause.</li>
<li>Won’t load for me. Maybe someone else can help with that one.</li>
<li>A. The sentence is talking about the difficulty that house wrens have with finding nesting places, not “in” nesting places. So, it is illogical to say “in”.</li>
<li>C. It is the only one that connects the ideas in a complete sentence way, without creating a comma splice.</li>
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<p>I can tell these aren’t collegeboard questions by the way some of them are worded. For example, if it was collegeboard, they would have an answer choice for number 4 with a perfectly parallel structure.</p>

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<ol>
<li>D - the proper idiom is “condemn as”</li>
<li>D - it should be “any other tool”</li>
<li>D - “they” is ambiguous</li>
<li>C - only choice that preserves parallelism</li>
<li>C - fixes the run on sentence</li>
<li>link is broken</li>
<li>A - “in” should be “about”</li>
<li>C - fixes lack of parallelism</li>
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<p>Concur with the rest, though #2 confused me.</p>

<h1>6 is weird too but I think it’s E because I feel like “which” is used inappropriately and it’s a number 3 question, which suggests that it shouldn’t be very complex. Was debating between E and A.</h1>

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<p>Thank you guys for explanations,</p>

<p>6 is E - I have the answers. But shouldn’t we use commas before and after therefore?</p>

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<p>it is college board questions from 2005 - 2006 SATS
I can even tell you the codes of the papers :slight_smile: </p>

<p>Most of them are from March 2005 TEST ( coded AEOZ )</p>

<p>Thank you for answers</p>

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<p>I was wondering that too but in answer choice A the sentence becomes ambiguous, and I had seen therefore be used without commas.</p>

<p>To take from Sherlock Holmes, “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” I feel a little corny comparing the SAT to a detective case.</p>

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<p>thank you a lot :)</p>