<p>^u said u marked no error though for ;would have took’</p>
<p>which Silver and yellow and I put as wrong</p>
<p>citrus q. is ‘have’…thats the error…honey is singular,…has to be ‘has’ not ‘have’…idk why others say it was distinctively</p>
<p>Oh **** are you serious? Is -2 still an 800 with a 10 essay?</p>
<p>^depends on the curve man…i’d say no lower than 780 for sure though…but who knows i havent a clue…first time taker</p>
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<p>Usually, you can’t miss any with a 10 essay to get 800.</p>
<p>Usually, -2 and 10 essay is around 760. See page five of <a href=“https://satonlinecourse.collegeboard.com/SR/digital_assets/pdfs/eri/scoring_2006-2007.pdf[/url]”>https://satonlinecourse.collegeboard.com/SR/digital_assets/pdfs/eri/scoring_2006-2007.pdf</a>.</p>
<p>^^^are u serious? -1 and 10 essay =/ 800??? no, i need some breathing room for W!</p>
<p>^ It’s usually 780. On tests with very generous curves (i.e., tests from a long time ago :)), -1 has yielded 800, though.</p>
<p>*****…that’s so harsh! should be 800</p>
<p>Well, an 800 on Writing is the rarest.</p>
<p>really, 800 CR isn’t rarer? and -2…with 11 essay = 800 or no?</p>
<p>^ It’s 770 on the link I posted.</p>
<p>@ Fresh101 and anyone who mistakenly believes that “felt more freely” is correct.</p>
<p>There could be an instance in which “felt more freely” would be correct: if the feeling going on was an action. For example, if you were to say, “I feel badly,” this statement would imply that you cannot physically feel things, as if you touch things but what is in your hands doesn’t register, or you touch things but cannot figure out what they are. Perhaps had your fingertips burned off and now when you touch your face, you think it’s your foot…you are a bad feeler. Or, consider “I smell badly.” This statement means you have a bad sense of smell; perhaps someone blindfolded you and told you to take a whiff of some dog excrement, but you thought it was a bouquet of flowers. You are bad at smelling things; you smell badly.</p>
<p>Now, when you say, “I feel bad,” you are not describing an action. You are describing yourself, your state of being. In other words, you are describing a noun, not a verb/action! When you say, “I smell bad,” again you are describing yourself, your state of being.</p>
<p>If all that didn’t make any sense to you, consider the following two sentences:</p>
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<li>You looked angrily at the crowd.</li>
<li>The crowd thought you looked angry.</li>
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<p>In sentence 1, the verb “looked” is an action…you (the subject) are performing the action of looking, but it is the action that is done angrily. “Angrily” here describes an action, a verb; hence, it is necessarily in adverb form.</p>
<p>In sentence 2, you are not physically doing anything. You are just being (in this case, looking a certain way). The adjective is therefore correct here, as *you<a href=“a%20person,%20a%20noun”>/I</a> are being described.</p>
<p>ETS does not test this rule often. However, whenever the SAT presents you with a “linking” or “state of being” verb (to feel, to grow, to seem, to smell, to look, to be, etc.) modified by an adverb, chances are an adjective is needed instead.</p>
<p>^ Yes, that was what I had attempted to communicate in post #349.</p>
<p>omg! -2 and 11 essay is 770! wow, thats sooooo harsh…why CB, why do u do this to me???</p>
<p>Thank you michael for that post. I feel a little better about myself now. :)</p>
<p>@ owlehn: no probs</p>
<p>@ silverturtle: I know you said it before…and I thought you did so very eloquently. It just seemed as if there was still some confusion, so I thought I’d help you out!</p>
<p>that link isn’t working for me silver…</p>
<p>EDIT: nvm it worked</p>
<p>Ok, I’ve asked a few times before lol, but I stilll can’t get a definitive answer.</p>
<p>Can anyone attest to the fact that there were 2-3 NE on the last writting section?</p>
<p>I believe that there were, but I’m not sure.</p>
<p>“‘Cathedral bells differ with … xylophone?’ It should’ve been ‘differ from,’”</p>
<p>That is the xylophone question? People were saying something about the word “than”?</p>
<p>Oh! What would be -5 and a 12 essay be?</p>