<p>Are PR writing questions more difficult? Anyhow:</p>
<p>1st question: the construction is ...not so much... as for...? or whats the pattern?</p>
<p>16.Because biology labs focus on hands-on learning and (promote skills) needed for solving common (problems is why) they have (been) (generally required) by medical and health-related programs.
Answer is B...WHY!?</p>
<p>18.At the annual desert festival, (carefully crafted) pastries (are presented) in elegant displays, drawing people from near and far to take part in (this) (yearly event).
Answer is E. I thought that yearly event was sort of redundant and unnecessary since it already said it was annual... am i correct to do so? and will CB ever do something like this?</p>
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<li><p>A person who uses hand tools (to accomplish) only (such tasks as) hanging pictures and fixing window shades (need not) purchase the (most cutting-edge) power tools developed for pros.
Answer is E, which i chose but i sort of guessed. Why is "such tasks as" correct? shouldn't it be tasks such as?</p></li>
<li><p>Janet sent Howard to Richard's camp (for the summer), (never dreaming) that three weeks (would go by) before (hearing from) Howard.
Answer is D WHY?!</p></li>
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<p>Also is there a difference between In spite of and despite?</p>
<p>16) The answer is B because “problems is why” is redundant. “Because” already implies “WHY” something is occurring the way it is. Btw, “problems is why” sounds wrong when you try to read the sentence. </p>
<p>18) You are right. The answer should have been “yearly event” because the sentence has already stated “annual.” CB’s answer choices will not be as ambiguous and will have only one correct answer. </p>
<p>26) Such … as construction is correct and nothing else is being tested there. However, I am not very sure about the answer to this question so do not take my word. </p>
<p>28) I guess the answer is D because you really do not know to what/whom “hearing from” is referring to. It could refer to the camp or Janet.</p>
<p>Btw, PR questions are much more difficult than actual CB questions from Blue Book or past SATs.</p>
<p>28) Correct: three weeks would go by before she heard from Howard.
Or: never dreaming that she would wait three weeks before hearing from Howard.
In the original sentence “three weeks” are hearing from Howard.</p>
<p>Before answering, you need to confirm the explanation, rather than the answer. Right? Because, it doesn’t make sense to have an SAT P.Test without any answers.</p>
<p>Let’s view it slowly.</p>
<p>A is perfectly right.
And the usage of such tasks as is correct, for if you delete * tasks*, it will be such as, and that’s absolutely right.
Even in C, there is nothing wrong with need not, though it sounds a little bit irregular.
And, certainly, there are A LOT of power tools, which permits the usage of the superlative most.</p>
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<li>In television sitcoms, the plots are riddled with unlikely twists, many quite ridiculous, often caused (by the protagonist lies) and the lies build upon one another.
answer is C. when the protagonist lies. WHY!?</li>
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<p>And when you have a sentence like :" construction on the top floors has finally been completed, the management can start to look for tenants who desire to move into the new apartments. ", there is an error with the comma correct because they are two independent clauses that would either require a semicolon or a conjunction? is this right?</p>
<p>And also, Why is this as is?
5. The author received more requests for interviews lately because the recent reviews of (his novel’s bone-chilling plots are rapidly attracting new readers.)" this is correct as is but why are answer choices such as “the bone chilling plots of his novel are rapidly attacting new readers?” or are they the same meaning?</p>
<p>In your first question, the underlined part is wrong ANYWAY. At first, it isn’t appropriate to say by the protagonist lies, rather it should be “by the protagonist*'s* lies.”
However, if you return back to the sentence and read it, you will find that it doesn’t make sense, without any corrections. The sentence indicates that there is some sort of a process going on with the lies, and you would only clarify this process, when you add when. After all, it sounds pretty ludicrous to say often caused by the protagonist lies and the lies build upon one another. For, you either say caused by the protagonist’s lies and the lies that/which…, or you relent and add “when.”</p>
<p>As for the second question, you are absolutely right. You SHOULD add either a conjunction or a semicolon.</p>
<p>For the last one, I didn’t understand what did you mean!!</p>
<p>Thank you very much… I am just wondering for the last one that if one of the answer choices said The bone chilling plots of his novel, vs. the original “his novel’s bone-chilling plots”, would that be correct? Do these give the same meaning?</p>
<p>Thank you, at first glance, i thought the choices and the construction were the same except for that part but the rest of the sentence was incorrect… so the original was still correct.</p>
Guys in 26th question
Shouldn’t need be replaced by needs…?
A person is singular
So a person needs not to worry…
Please clarify…I guess I m being silly… But still can’t understand…
Thanx in advance…
If a,a^2 and a^3 lie on a number line in the same order ,which of the following could be the value of a…?
A) -3
B) -1/3
C) 0
D) 1/3
E) 3
Pls help… Ans is B
But why…?
The answer is E not B.
It can’t be B because the square of a negative number is positive, so a^2 would be the largest of the three.
The order for B would be a, a^3, a^2 = -1/3, -1/27, 1/9.
The order for E is a, a^2,a^3 = 3,9,27.
In general, there are 4 zones for exponential inequalities:
@abcdefgh3 “Had been” is grammatically correct. It implies that the new assignments were given before “those” became “involved” – or that the new assignments were given before something else happened that was referred to in a previous sentence.
Your correction is also grammatically correct. It implies a different sequence of events than the one I just described.
You cannot determine from the given information whether “had been” or “were” better corresponds with the facts. But you are not being asked about the facts. You are being asked only if “had been” is correct. And it is. It is perfectly natural for a single sentence to refer to an action that occurred in the recent past and another action that occurred in the deep past.
Here is a simpler example: “The boy who was buried on Monday had been murdered on Saturday.”