<p>ok if i remember this correctly, this was an error ID, and choice A was "tendency of changing" and choice B was "bored at being" or "bored at" or something those lines. I chose B because "bored at" sounded like an idiomatic error although I debated between the two. Does anyone else remmber this?</p>
<p>"How did you look it up in the test? Did I interpret that wrong?"</p>
<p>I /think/ you misinterpreted me. I only checked my "sources" online. Again, I did not take the exam.</p>
<p>Grumpy, I am pretty certain everything else in the sentence was sound as a pound, mate. It was definitely between A and E.</p>
<p>so no one else remembers the "bored at" answer choice? because i was pretty sure it should have been bored of or bored with. i could definitely be wrong though. tendency of changing was definitely sketchy</p>
<p>I remember that grumpy bear. The sentence definitely had an error, it was just a question of what the error was (even though both sounded wrong): either A) tendency of changing or C) bored at being.</p>
<p>I think I chose A, but neither of those (tendency of + participle or bored at + participle) sounds absolutely correct to me. It's the same type of error (because those are both prepositions followed by a participle), so it's going to have something to do with the "tendency" (noun?) or "bored" (adjective?).</p>
<p>EDIT: Damn, I think it's probably C, not because of "at," but because "bored" is the past participle, while "being" is the present participle. I'm still not positive, though.</p>
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<li>Actually, that doesn't really prove anything, because even if you change the preposition to "with" or "of," you still have the same structure otherwise. I'm just going in circles... :p</li>
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<p>[EDIT: @grumpybear727: "Bored at being" is wrong. Totally wrong.]</p>
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<p>thanks guys! just checking</p>
<p>I too remember the sentence contained an explaination of the subject's tendency, specifically with him being bored with having to tell the same stories over and over again, and I think I chose the bored part as the error. However the entire sentence is very fuzzy to me...</p>
<p>I think it was "bored at having to answer the same questions." However, I do not recall if it said "bored at" or "bored of," and even if it was "bored at," is THAT a by-the-book incorrect grammar slap?</p>
<p>@Whisperwind: "bored of" is a certifiable bookslaps. You can only be "bored BY" or "bored WITH" something, as I understand it. I have not found any explicit evidence of "bored at" being a bookslap, but I'd assume that it is. You are the one undergoing the boring. So, something else is boring you. So, you are being bored by that thing. Not "of" or "at".</p>
<p>EDIT: I was wrong. One detail. I fixed my mistake.</p>
<p>It was definitely "bored at," but I don't know about grammar rules.</p>
<p>These are the things I need to study for the next SAT, as far as the Writing section goes.</p>