<p>The Teutonic Knights A(took) Gdansk in 1308 B(and renamed) it Danzig; by 1466, however, Polish kings were sovereign C(there) D(once again) and had restored the city's original name.</p>
<p>Is C an error in this sentence or would you put E?</p>
<p>I assume this is from a practice test. The reason is that you could easily come to 3 different conclusions. The first question is whether "there" is unnecessary. It is not necessarily improper but it is redundant because if you take it out the sentence still means the same. However, the same thing applies to "once again" which could just as well be only "again." I would probably guess E if the only issue is whether the phrases are grammatically correct. Hopefully, such trick questions will not appear on the actual test.</p>
<p>This question is from the Wednesday PSAT this year. I thought the answer was C because it seemed ambiguous, but others found no error. Tough question huh?</p>
<p>Are you sure you have the possible errors labled correctly? It looks to me as if there is a verb sequencing error at the end. It shouldn't be "had restored"- just "restored."</p>
<p>I got the text of the question from another post from a person who had the test booklet. Don't you think this question should be thrown out since it could have a couple answers?</p>
<p>I put E for that question.</p>
<p>E. but what the hell do i know, writing was my second lowest SAT II</p>
<p>I put E aswell... it says "there" for a reason- it doesn't tell where the Polish kings were sovereign without it.</p>
<p>its C, the 'there' is too ambiguous, it could mean gdansk or danzig, plus its superfluous</p>
<p>gdansk and danzig are the same place, they're just two different names given by two different rulers. that's the point. i don't see how its superfluous since if the "there" wasn't there we wouldn't know where the Polish were soveriegn. The sentance only discusses one place, but it would still be more ambiguous if it didn't say "there".</p>
<p>what part of the the section was it in?</p>
<p>if it was in the first 2 thirds I'd say E. If it was in the last 3rd Id say C.</p>
<p>There is no error in any of the choices, so if the sentence is transcribed correctly here, the answer is E.</p>
<p>It was like the second to last question. I guess we'll figure out when we get our scores back.</p>
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if it was in the first 2 thirds I'd say E. If it was in the last 3rd Id say C.
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Why is that?</p>
<p>Since the questions get progressively harder, the question would be more likely to be E in early sections because the C would be a hard error to identify (if it is an error).</p>