<p>wow....correcting spanish grammar isn't tacky at all.</p>
<p>jk jk</p>
<p>Before one of the questions on MacroEcon, I wrote a personalized note to the AP Grader, including the phrase "This is Sparta." In contrast to my other AP's, I didn't cross this out but instead labeled part a (it was a multi part question) below this note and wrote all the right answers. I assume they'll grade the AP normally, right?</p>
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wow....correcting spanish grammar isn't tacky at all.</p>
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<p>Lol he asked!</p>
<p>Well it's not that the antecedent isn't clear, but it's referring to an abstract situation that doesn't have a gender. :p</p>
<p>The concepts that "this" and "it" (when it's not a dummy pronoun) sometimes refer to can be a potentially very deep field within psycholinguistics -- or so I see it. I haven't seen much research on it though. The fact that native speakers all the time routinely (unconsciously, and arguably not absent-mindedly) use "it" for plural nouns when those plural nouns refer to a generalised concept ("DO</a> NOT BRING BIKES INTO THE BUILDING; IF THIS HAPPENS AGAIN IT WILL BE REMOVED, WHETHER OR NOT IT IS LOCKED") makes me think there is a deeper concept at work here. It is related to the idea behind singular they I think, and why it sounds acceptable to the ear in colloquial or even more formal speech, as well as possibly being involved with a part of working memory meant for language that at the moment (for the lack of a better name) call the "topic at hand buffer".</p>
<p>Lol....I had only seen the first one. I didn't see the question post. My bad :D</p>
<p>Hahaha... tennisboy, actually I am not an overbearing Mom...my daughter was over shoulder asking me to post the thread so she could see what sort of response it would get. If I was as overbearing as you think I am I clearly would have monitored this thread a little sooner than almost a month later. Hope you learn to chill during the summer.</p>
<p>I put the message in a TEAMS competition I did with my science team, thinking I had invented it. I guess not.</p>
<p>Did this for APCS.</p>
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<p>... My answer here ...</p>
<p>// This is SPARTA!</p>
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<p>What if you didn't cross it out? :S</p>
<p>They can't penalize you for it, right?</p>
<p>After reading a myriad of crossed-out "This is SPARTA!" randomly written in the answers, a grader may be inclined to penalize a fool that forgot to etch out the phrase.</p>
<p>On one of the AP Chem short answers we were supposed to write the reaction of two different compounds. I wrote:</p>
<p>A + B > THIS IS SPARTA </p>
<p>I crossed it out and put the actual answer though :P I wonder if they'll give me credit for that haha.</p>
<p>This was in today's Washington Examiner. They have finished grading the AP lit exam.</p>
<p>This</a> is Sparta! — Facebook prank or political statement? - Examiner.com</p>
<p>^ hahaha</p>
<p>did that on lit and bio (lit for fun, bio because I was totally clueless on a FR question)</p>