<p>Hector enjoys movies more then theater going since the latter do not have the distractions associated with set changes and intermission.</p>
<p>(A) then theater going since the latter do
(B) then going to the theater since the latter do
<a href="C">b</a> than theater since the former do<a href="D">/b</a> then the performances at the theater being that the latter does
<a href="E">b</a> than theater since the former does**</p>
<p>I can see why (A), (B), and (D) are wrong (because of then), but I don't understand why my book says that (E) is the correct answer. Shouldn't it be "movies... DO not have the distractions..."? I think it should be C.</p>
<p>It should be C... where did you get this question?</p>
<p>Barron's 2400. And thanks :)</p>
<p>Here's another question:</p>
<p>After climbing the rocks that led to the 150-feet-long breakers, the children walked along the full length of the prodigious and slippery stones, from one end of it to the other. No error.</p>
<p>My book says the answer is it, which should be them, but how do you know if it/them is referring to the LENGTH of the stones (which would be singular), or the STONES (which would be plural)?</p>
<p>I agree it sounds like an error to me as well, and I completely agree with your analysis. </p>
<p>What page was this problem/explanation on? We have highly rated the Barron's book and now I am hearing about errors, so it would be good to be able to pass on this info to other students in our review.</p>
<p>The question is on page 150, #6, and the explanation is on page 153.</p>
<p>Barron's seems to be pretty good about typos; that was the first one I've encountered in nearly 200 pages.</p>
<p>Got any ideas about the other one I posted?</p>
<p>I think you are overthinking it.</p>
<p>The children walked along the rocks, not the length of the rocks.</p>
<p>Hmm, the more I look at it, though the more I tend to agree that it is an error.</p>
<p>BUT I think that they walked from one end of the rocks to the other end, not from one end of the length to the other end.</p>
<p>You are right that it is somewhat ambiguous -- you probably would not encounter a sentence like this on the real SAT. However, when I first read the sentence, my instinct was definitely "it" because the antecedent seems more likely to be "stones." It just sounds less awkward this way, and usually if you have it narrowed down to two options that both seem correct, the "less awkward" is usually the way to go.</p>
<p>All right, thanks guys.</p>
<p>I can't decide if working with Barron's is good because it challenges me, or bad because I'm going to go crazy trying to understand problems that don't have a real explanation :eek:</p>