<p>I have a few questions I don’t understand, help is appreciated:
These are from the October 2007 testing. </p>
<li><p>Section 4- #9
I don’t get it…it’s a passage, question is “the reference to Aunt Silvie’s pronounciation in line 4 serves to…”
I put E. But answer is B? </p></li>
<li><p>Section 5- #28
“annual visitors (to) New York’s central park (number) (almost) ten times (that of Mt. Rushmore). (No error.)”
I put E. Answer is d. why is that wrong?</p></li>
<li><p>Section 7- #5
“The 1990’s were ( ) years for organization: the staff was happy…etc.”
I put E. Expedient. Shouldn’t that be right? Answer is different…</p></li>
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<p>I can't do 1 because I don't have the passage, so lets try the others...</p>
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<li>#28</li>
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<p>Ah, this is a famous SAT question. Memorize it, young padawan, because if you're just starting your SAT career you will see it hundreds of times. It's the standard "illogical comparison." Here they are comparing the number of visitors to Mt Rushmore. It should be compared to the number of visitors that Mt Rushmore receives. If you see any sort of comparison on the Writing, it will have this error with 95% probability.</p>
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<li>Don't know what the other answers are, but "Expedient" means 'Fast'. My guess is you want something more like "auspicious".</li>
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<h1>28 - Actually, John, it is comparing the number of visitors to Central Park to the number of visitors to Mt. Rushmore. The problem lies with noun-verb agreement. Since "visitors" is a plural verb, the pronoun should be "those" and not "that".</h1>