<p>ok can someone please tell me what was wrong with the mark twain question.</p>
<p>fighting21 which one are you talking about</p>
<p>Guys, to make a case for “no error” over “it”: Do you honestly think anyone would go to “great lengths” to obtain interest in a painting? That doesn’t make sense if you think about it. This isn’t SAT maths, grammar isn’t formulaic to the extent of applying the rules over doing a basic common-sense-check. To “obtain interest in paintings” is a different case altogether, people do go to lengths to try and cultivate a sensibility for art, but in context, putting in a lot of effort into trying to be interested in a painting doesn’t really make sense.</p>
<p>Secondly, the first part of the sentence said, “Though I have long known…”. Why would the author be surprised that someone went to great lengths to obtain an interest he already knew the guy had?</p>
<p>Because of these factors, “it” has no ambiguity surrounding it.</p>
<p>Logically and conversationally you are right meghnasridhar - but grammatically you can’t have multiple nouns that can grammatically be antecedents, especially when the one you want is introduced by a prepositional phrase.</p>
<p>cs it was a comparison error comparing his writing to that of someone else when it shoudl be to person’s writing to other person’s writng</p>
<p>not writing to person</p>
<p>^no, you are focusing on the wrong aspects of deciding whether “it” is ambiguous. You only analyze a sentence for what it’s got, not for what the author of the sentnence intended to say. Just because plugging in “interest” doesn’t make any sense doesn’t mean that that’s not what the author meant to say. YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THE AUTHOR INTENDED TO SAY; YOU ONLY KNOW WHAT HE/SHE SAID FROM WHAT HE/SHE WROTE.</p>
<p>globo did u email?</p>
<p>I remember seeing something like this on one of the collegeboard online tests that I took a while back. I’m pretty sure I got it wrong then, but I’m too lazy to check what I put or what the correct answer for that problem was. However, I remember that there was a definitive answer between the two. I might check later when I have more time.</p>
<p>so fresh101 what point are u trying to get across no error or vague i just wanna know</p>
<p>can i call this for bartholomew</p>
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<p>like the hybrid passage one is like replace “they have”…?
i didn’t choose ‘for example’ didn’t choose A nd C which had "they’’
dunno whether my answer D is right - -</p>
<p>so was “writer” the correct choice? I believe it was letter C</p>
<p>wasnt it like they argue? what was it that was confusing</p>
<p>yes it was cs c was correct</p>
<p>fighting what did u put again all of them had they’s in it</p>
<p>kobe i dun rmb just put D…</p>
<p>Hmm. I get your points: what you’re saying is grammatically sound, but…idk. I know your “ear” doesn’t always tell you the right thing, but “Even though I have long known of his interest in the painting, that he went to such lengths to obtain the painting astonishes me” sounds a bit…repetitive, and iffy to me. I mean, the first thing I learnt about pronouns was that they neatened up a sentence, and that sentence looked like it could use neatening up.</p>
<p>I’m not certain, though. I could accept both sides of the arguement, my only reasoning is that the rules of the english language/grammar are not as inalienable and inviolable as those of science, or maths, or whatever.</p>
<p>what was the answer to the chimpanzee one</p>
<p>because it said chimpanzee with in the question and shud follow paralellism</p>
<p>well you don’t have to be repetitive - you could say other things instead of painting - piece of art, artwork, masterpiece, etc. i emailed abt it, so we’ll see. were you able to call or email kobe?</p>