January 2010 Writing Thread

<p>photography question was experimental.
X chromosome, beaver, camel, had swam, new york apple, saturn, so profoundly influenced, and principal questions were all real.</p>

<p>I believe X chromosome, new york apple, and saturn were no error, but they do seem kinda contentious. “more than enough”, “it is generally agreed that”, and “resemblence to” sound perfectly fine to me, though.</p>

<p>I marked “keeps” as wrong.</p>

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<p>Correct, it should have been keep, since it was talking about the fur AND the blubber.</p>

<p>The beaver question wasn’t that last question</p>

<p>" no i’m pretty sure the beaver question was not experimental "</p>

<p>That was the section with the tallest skyscraper passage at the end. Hence, if we’re both correct, then the windmill is experimental. I had the beaver section first before I got the windmill. Please make the windmill & NY apples one experimental, I’ll have a good chance for a 700.</p>

<p>@ABCwizard- something like this:
the mongolian camel has thick fur and something that keeps(<–error; should be keep; plural subject/singular verb disagreement) it warm during the winter also insulate from summer heat.</p>

<p>The windmill was NOT experimental.</p>

<p>@ silverturtle</p>

<p>I’m NOT a grammar person by any means, but I was pretty sure an apostrophe indicated a posessive. Neither of the 2 “its” in the question had apostrophes. the first was not underlined (indicating that, at least to the collegeboard, it was correct,) but the second was. As far as I can tell, both uses of the word indicated a possesive, yet if I am right at least one was used incorrectly (and not underlined.)</p>

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<p>Are you sure?</p>

<p>(to jump in again)^ yes windmill was real</p>

<p>Kean, what did you get for the agency question?</p>

<p>PickledCookie, “its” is the possessive form of “it.” </p>

<p>“it’s” is a contraction for “it is.” Don’t worry; it’s an extremely common mistake.</p>

<p>what was the beaver question man</p>

<p>please guys</p>

<p>Beaver question:</p>

<p>The north american rodent, it has blah blah</p>

<p>please anyone beaver question and chromose x bugign me</p>

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<p>I believe we both put (E).</p>

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<li>the windmill is real</li>
<li>@ pickledcookie… this is fundamentals.
It’s means “it is”
Its is possesive
Its’ doesnt exist.</li>
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<p>I put the answer with “An American something, the beaver…” I think it was either (C) or (D). I did not pick the ones that had gerunds or participles.</p>

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<p><em>^_^</em> nevermind then :slight_smile:
and after all that I already knew I got it wrong</p>

<p>@olleger I was more concerned with CR this time around, and completely neglected the writing MC when studying. Plus I’m not the “typical” CCer who gets 800s across the board. Lighten up a bit :)</p>

<p>^ Confirm that it’s not experimental.</p>

<p>lol i dont even know what a gerund is.<br>
Do you guys pick up on these terms naturally or just have great memories? Same with the vocab. how can one possibly know all the words they test.</p>

<p>silver what was the one with the gerund</p>

<p>and i cant remember the camel one???</p>