<p>Is it possible that this question is gramatically correct?</p>
<p>Seldom do the barriers between the races seem less in evidence than on this league-leading high school football team.</p>
<p>the answer choices are:
A. the same
B. More so than on other teams, they seem to be less evident barriers between the races on this league-leading high school football team.
C. On this league leading high school football team, more so than on other teams, the barriers between the races are less in evidence, it seems.
D. the barriers between the races do seem fewer in evidence seldom on this league leading high school football team.
E. Seldom less than on this league leading high school football team does the barriers between the races seem less in evidence.</p>
<p>yes… well Barron’s SAT prep says thats sometimes the answer choices ar ejust to wordy and the shortest sentence in that case woud be the correct answer … and that would make the answer a… the same however i would assume that the answer is D… beacse if its kept teh same it sounds akward</p>
<p>It’s definitely A. A isn’t perfect, but the others are worse.</p>
<p>It can’t be B, because “they seem to be less evident” doesn’t make sense, and it’s redundant (more so than on other teams / this… team)
It’s probably not C, because “it seems” is awkward. This is very similar to the original sentence and isn’t as bad as some of the other choices, but it’s not as good as the original.
It’s definitely not D, because “fewer in evidence” is just wrong.
It’s definitely not E, because “does” should be “do,” and the whole sentence is just confusing.</p>
<p>so is the whole SAT like this question? Where the questions are not perfect and you have to pick the best answer, even though it might not be the best?</p>
<p>No – most SAT questions have one clear answer that is correct (although you may sometimes encounter ones like these). This doesn’t sound like a real SAT question to me, though.</p>
<p>I think A is pretty clearly correct. It’s akwardly worded for casual conversation, but it’s correct. The problem with the SAT is that usually <em>you</em> wouldn’t write any of the answers if you were writing something, but that doesn’t make them incorrect, just akward. </p>
<p>D can’t be right because you can’t say “fewer in evidence seldom on”…it’s way more akward than A and that’s not a legitimate phrase…you need something like “than” to modify seldom there. Fewer in evidence could work without the seldom (fewer in evidence THAN on). You can’t really take anything away and make seldom work unless you change it to seldomly. </p>
<p>Answer choice A, however, could be edited very well for clarity by simply changing “in evidence” to “evident.” But none of the other choices are really close to correct. Would anyone write sentence A in published writing? It would make it past a decent copy editor most likely…but you can understand what it means, and if you hadn’t read A, the others would be nonsensical without dissecting them, at least to me.</p>