January 2010 Writing Thread

<p>And I’m ABSOLUTELY SURE it’s “in addition.” Granted sounds COMPLETELY WRONG. It doesn’t fit the essay because there’s nothing that’s “granted” about people thinking windmills look bad on hills. And it doesn’t even follow the list-making the author was doing in that paragraph. So it’s “in addition.”</p>

<p>For the 35 question section, does anyone remember approximately how many fixing sentence questions did not need to be changed?</p>

<p>@awesomemath</p>

<p>I know right! The problem is for a lot of questions leaving it as would have been acceptable but there was often an answer choice that sounded even better.</p>

<p>yea, its in addition. the fence one is not “Were they to be painted” it was the one that started with if</p>

<p>“granted” implies that the author is making a concession in contradiction to his or her main argument. The author was not making an argument; rather, he or she was looking at two sides of an issue. “In addition” was better.</p>

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<p>No, the one that started with “if” was in the wrong tense.</p>

<p>I put granted instead of ‘in addition’ because with In Addition, the sentence was like
In addition, not everyone welcomed the fields of __________ where people felt it would destroy the beautiful view</p>

<p>or something to that extent
and i thought it was weird to have “not everyone” in the beginning and then “where people” in the last clause</p>

<p>It wasn’t “If they would have been painted.” That’s not subjunctive, that’s conditional. You need to have subjunctive clause, comma, conditional clause.</p>

<p>If they would have been painted, they would have dried. <–Makes no sense</p>

<p>Anyone care to answer? For the 35 question section, does anyone remember approximately how many fixing sentence questions did not need to be changed?</p>

<p>3 No Errors in the non-Experimental Identifying Sentence Errors. As for the Improving Sentences, I don’t remember.</p>

<p>I put in addition too…i didn’t even consider granted</p>

<p>the question about the fences it still being debated…thanks kean for ur explanation but mybmanglass—what’s ur reasoning…and I don’t remember an answer choice beginning with “if”…</p>

<p>what do u guys think 3~4 wrong would get me?</p>

<p>It’s granted, not only for the repetitiveness, but before, in the sentence before there is a statement that contradicts itself, so the author says “Granted” to acknowledge it. I’m like 100% sure.</p>

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<p>The rest of the sentence was definitely grammatical; it boils down to whether “for” or “to” is correct. Here is my argument:</p>

<p>“provided resources to” should be succeeded by noun indirect objects, as in: “They provided resources for the photography enthusiast.”</p>

<p>“provided resources for” should be succeeded by a clause, as in: “They provided resources for the photography enthusiast to use.”</p>

<p>thanks kean and silverturtle</p>

<p>so the answer was: were they to be painted or something else?</p>

<p>what were the 3 no errors? </p>

<p>saturn rings, new york apples, and photography? </p>

<p>I remember putting no error for X chromosome also…</p>

<p>almafuerte, do you speak Spanish? Because in Spanish it would be "Si los pintaran en la tarde, se secar</p>

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<p>Yea 17, 19, 21 were the no errors in the non-experimental identifying sentence errors. I’m more concerned about improving sentences because I remember I putting down more than 2 A’s (no error) which seems unusual in improving sentences.</p>

<p>yeah I put ‘were they to be painted’ as well</p>

<p>was the x chromosome question an experimental?</p>