hongquan7389

Please explain me two writing questions in BB Page 725

#22: Some of the workers who resent (A) the supervisor's authority would probably (B) feel uncomfortable if (C) they were to acquire the independence that they demand (D) No error (E)

I think the answer is D, demand should be demanded but the answer key is E.

#26: Professor Chen repeated her point that (A) the hero, if given (B) the chance to relive (C) the moment, would choose to do it (D) No error (E)
Why the answer is D?

Tsenguun

#22 the same with you that i thought it was D. sry dont know why
#26: doesnt it ssound awkward? "do it" -- "do so" would sound much better, and you don't have to say it, because the action was mentioned before, just say "so".

xitammarg

for 22, the present tense of demand is appropriate because the present tense of "resent" is used. "would probably feel" and "if they were to acquire" are subjunctive expressions, not past-tense expressions (unfortunately, the english past tense and the english subjunctive are often identical as far as the verbs, so you need to look for subjunctive markers like "if" and "probably.")

for 26, remember that every pronoun in an SAT writing question needs to have its antecedent appear in the same sentence with it. here, the pronoun "it" has no antecedent--if we say that "chance" is the antecedent, we're left with saying the hero would "choose to do the chance," which makes no sense. so we know (d) has to be wrong even if we don't know how to fix the question necessarily. (for what it's worth, i think tsenguun's "do so" is probably what the SAT had in mind.)

Choi

Although I agree that this is awkward, couldn't "it" be referring to "to relive"?

Choi

bumpy here