May 2010 Writing SAT Thread

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<p>Do xylophones have bells? Anyhow, “differs with” is wrong there.</p>

522

<p>silverturtle, do you confirm it is correct to say: he is taller than I ? (instead of me?)</p>

523

<p>Can someone explain why “than” would be incorrect for the xylophone one, since that’s what a lot of people put?
clarification: I mean why grammatically that would be incorrect, not why that would be wrong as the selected answer.</p>

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<p>Yes, me is incorrect there, as both items of comparison must be in the nominative case.</p>

525

<p>^thank you. I learnt something today</p>

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<p>I don’t see a reason for its being wrong.</p>

527

<p>can someone tell me definitively how many NE there were for #11-30? (the ones where you find the error in the sentence)</p>

528

<p>i only had like 2 so im worried…</p>

529

<p>cwangsterr i beleive it was just one NE</p>

530

<p>thanks, silverturtle.</p>

<p>cwangsterr - I don’t think we have a definitive answer. A lot of people are saying only one. I got at least three in one section, but I had an experimental writing, so it may have been there.</p>

531

<p>I’m pretty sure the only NE was the Red Cross one.</p>

532

<p>i thought there was one in the very beginning of the finding the error part. and then the red cross one. Not positive though.</p>

533

<p>I still think “from Mexican descent” makes sense…</p>

534

<p>should be of mexican descent</p>

535

<p>yeah i guess. lol</p>

536

<p>Does anyone remember the question that contained myriad?</p>

537

<p>I remember that. I questioned whether myriad was the error, but ended up selecting D I think, whatever that was.</p>

538

<p>The only two parts I remember are “myriad (something)” (A) and “of any” (D).
Isn’t it supposed to be “myriad OF (something)”?</p>

539

<p>Oh, right, we did talk about this earlier on the thread. I put D because I thought it was supposed to be “as any”. But I had the same thought about myriad also.</p>

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<p>[Myriad</a> | Define Myriad at Dictionary.com](<a href=“http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/myriad]Myriad”>Myriad Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com)
I guess myriad can be an adjective, so the “of” is not necessary.</p>