Help Please SAT Test Tom...Two Confusing Writing Questions!

FutureDoctor2028
Fri, 01 May 2015 17:53:02 +0000

For the first problem: the sentence talks about froglets before it addresses their actions; therefore A, B, and E should be automatically eliminated. You need to put “they” after a plural noun is addressed immediately before.

Now the next part of the sentence should read as: “…cogul froglets about the size of a grain rice, when THEY HATCH, emerge fully formed…” D is incorrect because “hatch” and “emerging” (those tenses) don’t match up. It combines the present tense with the present progressive (emerging)

It should be “hatch” and “emerge”, having both words which matching tenses (present.)

Although it may seem the meaning is correct, don’t simply go off of that notion. I used to say to myself “oh, since it sounds right, then that’s the right answer”, but that eventually earned me a 540 on my PSAT which eventually improved to a 700 when I started to have a pedantic outlook on those small details.

For the second one, “should” is correct because the sentence describes that the comedy is a model of something (kind of like a role-model.) Therefore, since it is a model of something, every comedy in the future should follow this one.

Here’s a similar sentence which follows the same logic sequence:

“See? That man is a great innovator. He is a role model for all future innovators and amateur innovators SHOULD learn from his practices.”

“Should” implies an obligation.