May 2010 Writing SAT Thread

<p>@ViggyRam or other people,</p>

<p>Could you please give me some more details of the experimental section?</p>

<p>fresh101, </p>

<p>Can you elaborate on that question?</p>

<p>@fresh</p>

<p>What was the full sentence for the freely/free one?</p>

<p>i can’t. I don’t remember it well enough. But i do remember that “felt more freely” was underlined. That part is correct as written.</p>

<p>the experimental section,…for me, was section 3…the last one was my real, legit. W section. the experimental had the passage about the migrant author, and how the narrator’s parents had overcome adversity, etc. this section was definately tougher than the real W section…im trying to think of more q’s from that section, but im drawing blanks…</p>

<p>oh, and i had a whole bunch of C answers in the beginning of the experimental too</p>

<p>‘felt more freely is not correct’…is it? more is an adverb right? needs to describe a verb/adjective…freely is another adverb…wouldnt this be faulty construction?</p>

<p>so is the right answer more free or more freely??</p>

<p>It’s not correct as in it’s not the right answer. If someone could help me reconstruct a little bit more of the sentence, i bet i could i figure it out based on memory</p>

<p>the right answer didn’t involve that part of the question. Whoever said that “felt more freely” was incorrect as written, making it the right answer, was being too captious.</p>

<p>Well, I don’t know the question, but I can comment on the construction of those phrases.</p>

<p>felt more free</p>

<p>This is a grammatically acceptable verb phrase, where the verb felt serves as a linking verb to the subjective complement, in this case a predicate adjective (free). free here modifies the subject of the verb felt, as in “He felt hungry.” (“hungry” modifies “he.”)</p>

<p>felt more freely</p>

<p>This is, likewise, a grammatically acceptable verb phrase. In this case, however, felt is not a linking verb but is instead a transitive verb (i.e., requiring a direct object). Therefore, freely does not modify the subject as before; it modifies the verb and is, thus, an adverb. A semantically acceptable context could be: “He felt his girlfriend more freely than he had before.”</p>

<p>felt more freely is wrong then, right? im so confused right now lol</p>

<p>^ Hopefully my post will clarify.</p>

<p>Adding on to what silverturtle said, If “felt more freely” is acceptable, it cannot be incorrect, and thus the right answer.</p>

<p>‘felt more freely is not correct’…is it? more is an adverb right? needs to describe a verb/adjective…freely is another adverb…wouldnt this be faulty construction? </p>

<p>How would that be faulty construction? Did you not read what i said earlier? ADVERBS CAN MODIFY OTHER ADVERBS, BUT ADJECTIVES CANNOT MODIFY ADVERBS.</p>

<p>@ Mabs ; You asked about the xylophone question a few pages back, and I think it was something along the lines of ‘Cathedral bells differ with … xylophone?’ It should’ve been ‘differ from,’ I thought.</p>

<p>And the question for ‘felt more freely’ was something like ‘Romantic writters felt more freely to write about their emotions than did Victorian writers.’ So I marked ‘more freely’ as incorrect, since as Silverturtle said, in order to ‘freely’ to be correct, you would need a direct object? [Also, ‘free’ should be modifying ‘writers,’ I thought?]</p>

<p>^im still confused…waht is the correct answer (what i should’ve circled as the error) in that setence?</p>

<p>question: how bad is it that i didn’t have enough time to write a conclusion for my essay? i thought the rest of it was pretty well written…guess i need to work on my timing. will it cost me a lot of points?</p>

<p>And the question for ‘felt more freely’ was something like ‘Romantic writters felt more freely to write about their emotions than did Victorian writers.’ So I marked ‘more freely’ as incorrect, since as Silverturtle said, in order to ‘freely’ to be correct, you would need a direct object? [Also, ‘free’ should be modifying ‘writers,’ I thought?] </p>

<p>Ah yes i remember now. The answer to that question was NE. Freely is modifying another adverb, not the writers.</p>

<p>The writers were not free; rather they FELT FREELY.</p>

<p>So, is the sentence essentially Romantic writers felt more freely to write about their emotions than did Victorian writers?</p>

<p>yes 10char.</p>