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<li>Local party organizations have discovered that voter that voter turnout is diminished (a) considerably (b) whenever the media (c) projected election results early (d) in the day.</li>
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<p>The answer is c and I was wondering if projected should be changed to projects or has projected and a grammatical reason would be helpful as well</p>
<p>2.I have gone (to) (only one) football game (after) I (graduated) from high school.</p>
<p>The answer is c, after, and I have no idea as to why again a grammatical rule would also be helpful</p>
<h2>Also is opposition against an incorrect idiom would it be correct if it said opposition to?</h2>
<p>How should I approach tone questions? They seem to be giving me a lot of difficulty and so far I have missed three questions all of which had the answer as sarcasm. Any tips on how to approach tone questions?</p>
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<li><p>Yes, you’re correct the tense should be consistent throughout the sentence and so projects would fit.</p></li>
<li><p>Not sure how to explain this, I just know that it should be replaced with since.</p></li>
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<p>I went to only one football game after I graduated form high school would also make sense. Do you see the difference in tense? Sorry I really don’t know the grammatical term.</p>
<p>As for your question on tone, not sure how to answer that, just know that the tone is almost never indifferent. You could try compiling a list of all the various tone answers.</p>
<p>As for the second question, the “after” should indeed be changed to “since” because it signifies a tense change, so basically allowing for the graduated part to be grammatically correct.</p>
Local party organizations have discovered that voter that voter turnout is diminished (a) considerably (b) whenever the media (c) projected election results early (d) in the day.
The answer is c and I was wondering if projected should be changed to projects or has projected and a grammatical reason would be helpful as well
According to the explanation from College Board, the correct sentence is: …project… (not projects or has projected).
Does anyone have an explanation for why ‘project’ is the correct form?
That depends on whether you treat “media” as a singular or plural noun, I suppose. I just Googled it and the Internet says it is officially a plural noun (from Latin, singular: medium). In colloquial English, many people use it as a singular noun. If you accept that it is plural, “project” would be the correct form.
The CB will not test on plurality/singularity of “media.” This question doesn’t rely on that knowledge either–it’s a simple verb tense question and subject-verb agreement doesn’t play a role. You just have to find the error; you don’t have to fix it!