<p>^It’s still open for debate whether “cramped my style” meant she needed more space or she disliked the stationary.</p>
<p>^ more room. How skimpy the paper was and how she could only write on one side … her style was writing a lot right? so i think we agree on that one</p>
<p>^That’s what the debate is on. Did “my style” refer to her writing style or her taste in stationary?</p>
<p>^But in the context of the passage the only thing she was talking about was her writing. Not her preferences for flower. She went on and on about how long shes making the letters. IMO 80% towards space.</p>
<p>Cramping my style=taste is stationary.
It’s America slang.</p>
<p>not stationary taste… That is too superficial an answer. Also note the parallel structure (or is antithesis) when she says “blah blah skimpy paper cramped my style… the huge pile of 8/11 paper thumped” She got a HUGE pile. That indicates she wants to write a lot and directly contrasts the utility the floral stationary serves because it has no room and you can’t write on the back with ink. skimpy… thudded shows a clear contrast in magnitude that parallels the increase in writing that the author is doing.</p>
<p>idt its present vs. past for alaska
i think its suggests some concerns of the author
the present is her situation
i think ur overthinking it</p>
<p>@33</p>
<p>“I love my family, and that could never cramp my style.”</p>
<p>Hip hop artist and actor LL Cool J, in an interview with Maxim Magazine.</p>
<p>Definition</p>
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<li>Definition - Study the definition.</li>
</ol>
<p>limit or restrict what you like to do or say</p>
<ol>
<li>Use - Learn how the slang is used.</li>
</ol>
<p>**When something cramps your style, it limits or restricts you from doing the things you like to do. ** For example, if you’re single, having children might cramp your style because you can’t go out and party anymore.</p>
<p>Or, if you like to wear tennis shoes and shorts every day, getting a job at a bank might cramp your style because you will have to wear a suit and tie.</p>
<p>In the example above, LL Cool J is saying that his family does not cramp his style. The meaning is that, even though he is a famous and wealthy celebrity, he would rather spend time with his family than go out partying.
[Slang</a> Definition: “cramp my style”](<a href=“cramp my style”>cramp my style)</p>
<p>i agree, annoyingaakash. </p>
<p>don’t overthink it. they were definitely the mother’s concerns. none of the other choices fit.</p>
<p>The SAT is all about simplistic and LOGICAL answers; you’re not supposed to over analyze it.</p>
<p>Why did the grandma want to sign Love?
I said it was because she wanted an appropriate ending to her letters.</p>
<p>But the thing is, it said love, regardless. She just put it in her own handwriting showing she wanted more direct influence on the letters (I assume she came to realize her granddaughter was taking literary freedom)</p>
<p>But she always signed her name, its just that she was adding love before it. That isnt really putting more influence in her letters.</p>
<p>but the fact that it’s in HER writing when she chooses to be the one to write love shows she wants to make a bigger contribution.</p>
<p>In the passage, the granddaughter talks about how the grandmother wanted to add “Love” in her own hand. I specifically remember it saying “in her own hand”. This leads me to believe that the grandmother felt that she wasn’t contributing enough to the letter.</p>
<p>agree with interficio ^
So the primary purpose of the grandma one was development of a writer and not misunderstanding about purpose of how to write letters? Is that the consensus?</p>
<p>yeah it was development. Look back to how she used to think of the writing, as a “business transaction,” and how she changes by the end and comes to enjoy writing.</p>
<p>I love my family, and that could never cramp my style.</p>
<p>Hip hop artist and actor LL Cool J, in an interview with Maxim Magazine.</p>
<p>Definition</p>
<ol>
<li>Definition - Study the definition.</li>
</ol>
<p>limit or restrict what you like to do or say</p>
<ol>
<li>Use - Learn how the slang is used.</li>
</ol>
<p>When something cramps your style, it limits or restricts you from doing the things you like to do. For example, if youre single, having children might cramp your style because you cant go out and party anymore.</p>
<p>Or, if you like to wear tennis shoes and shorts every day, getting a job at a bank might cramp your style because you will have to wear a suit and tie.</p>
<p>In the example above, LL Cool J is saying that his family does not cramp his style. The meaning is that, even though he is a famous and wealthy celebrity, he would rather spend time with his family than go out partying.
Slang Definition: “cramp my style”</p>
<p>Yes, thus her dissatisfaction with her grandma’s stationary would lead her to change so that her STYLE was no longer restricted. Thus, the answer is that she did not like her grandma’s stationary.</p>
<p>does someone have a link to the story?</p>
<p>nvm I found it, and I agree now that the correct answer is that she wants to take more control, but that bothers me because writing love is only one more word, thats not making so much of a difference.</p>