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<li><p>In many states, (they have laws to allow students to vote wherever) they choose, either at their homes or at their college residences.
A-Same
B-they have laws allowing students to vote where (My choice)
C-their laws allowing students to vote wherever
D-the laws allow students to vote wherever (correct answer)
e-the laws allow students to vote in the place where </p></li>
<li><p>The filibuster on voting-rights legislation went on for three days and (nights; senators slept when they could) on benches in the hall.
A-same as above (correct answer)
B-nights; which mean senators sleeping when possible
C-nights; therefore, it meant that senators would sleep when possible (My choice)
D-nights and therefore the senators would be sleeping when able to
E-nights; with senators sleeping when they could </p></li>
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<p>PLEASE GIVE ME EXPLANATIONS. And does anyone know if the 30 video series of SAT Writing Boot Camp on Youtube helps raise score?</p>
<p>In the first question, A-C feature ambiguous pronoun usage (who is they?), and E is unnecessarily wordy. In the second, A and C are the only options with a complete phrase after the semicolon. The answer is A because “it” is ambiguous and active voice is always better than passive.</p>
<p>When you are stuck between two choices in the writing section, and you are completely sure it’s one of those two then a tip for you is to choose the shorter one. This doesn’t mean you will always get it right, but rather your chances of getting it right increased. </p>
<p>The shortest multiple choice that you believe could be right is often better than the other, longer option in that it is either more succint (which is not a grammatical reason, but one of those it’s better than that good answer over here) or active voice versus passive voice. </p>
<p>I missed two on my writing section because I used to think this was one of those always-right, holy tips that never fails but after learning the reason why the shortest answer wasn’t the best answer, it made sense. So don’t use this all the time but if you are down to two choices and both are seemingly correct, go with the shorter one.</p>
<p>Im Bumping this thread because I wanna know if Reasonprep’s Sat Grammar Bootcamp works. I have an estimated late 600 early 700 on the SAT writing right now. Will this help me get to a near 800 score by early October?</p>