<p>guys was supposition right?</p>
<p>I’d have to remember the full answer but no, I don’t think so.</p>
<p>Though the general debate seems to be between that and qualification. And then some people are saying concession, which is why I was confused in the first place because that’s extremely similar to qualification. My guess is they don’t remember correctly.</p>
<p>Ahh, I see. I was mistaken. </p>
<p>Regardless, I still believe “make a concession” to be the correct answer. IIRC, the sentence was in this general format:</p>
<p>“Not all X does Y (some do, for sure).” I can’t remember the exact wording, but if I recall correctly, the sentence supported the authors purpose and the parentheses went agianst it. In that case, “make a concession” makes more sense. I can see how the phrase in parentheses makes the sentence
as per source 1, but it seems the purpose of the parentheses was to directly contradict the author’s point. </p>
<p>Am I remembering correctly?</p>
<p>I agree that were “make a concession” a choice, it would be completely correct. You are remembering correctly, except the purpose of the parentheses was not to contradict his own point. That is for obvious reasons a huge nono when using rhetoric, and that’s part of the reason why SAT questions about “refuting an earlier point” or something similar are almost always incorrect. Rather, the author is limiting the application of his statement. By adding the parentheses, he is limiting the scope of his assertion: Not all X does Y, BUT some do. The problem is that this is also, without a doubt, a concession. If that was a choice, that’s confusing to me. Thankfully, I don’t think it was.</p>
<p>I remember my attention spiking when I read that bit of the passage, because it seemed so strange and out of place. It really seemed like the author was contradicting himself. </p>
<p>ehh I can’t remember enough about that one to debate it haha</p>
<p>Haha yea that’s fine. I’m just being paranoid about like every question I have at least a 1% chance of getting wrong.</p>
<p>woah concession and supposition are two completely different questions. Did I just read that whole thing too fast?</p>
<p>That’s likely Peezus. I am fairly certain that they were, in fact, separate questions. </p>
<p>Yes. What I’m saying is that concession and qualification are very similar answers and that for this particular question, they could both be considered entirely correct. My confusion is over whether concession was a choice, or if people on the doc the other day were just remembering incorrectly. It seems it was only a couple of people who said “concession” which leads me to think it was just those few who actually remembered that being an answer.</p>
<p>I am 70% sure it was a possible answer</p>
<p>I dunno. I mean I don’t wanna say you’re wrong, but my memory combined with what I’ve learned over the course of taking literally dozens of released SATs is telling me that it wasn’t an option <em>for that particular question</em> It certainly was an option for a green consumerism question.</p>
<p>@ ckoepp127 I agree completely. I think it was only a choice for the consumerism passage. It was a question about the second consumerism passage, I remember that vividly. I just don’t think it was on multiple questions.</p>
<p>hmm perhaps if I could remember the question from the consumerism passage, it would jog my memory :P</p>
<p>What was it exactly?</p>
<p>“there are still some beneficial aspects…” or something to that degree was the quote. It asked what the quote represented. It represented a concession made by the author, in that although he wasn’t for green consumerism, he was aware of some its potential benefits.</p>
<p>concession was right (for the consumerism passage). qualification vs supposition was in the writing passage (to which the answer was supposition). </p>
<p>Validate a supposition? What supposition would that be, and how did he validate it?</p>
<p>I believe that “make a concession” and “qualify a statement” were answer choices for two different questions. I can’t remember which answer belonged to which question and passage but I’m fairly sure they were not options for the same question.</p>
<p>Whatever the case, I remember selecting “make a concession” for one answer. To which question that answer belonged is beyond me.</p>
<p>^ Refer above. I am 100% about the “concession” question.</p>
<p>Alrighty then</p>