October 2011 SAT Writing

chaosakita
Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:29:41 +0000

I was stumped by the New Zealand question too. But ultimately, I decided that “when” was wrong, and not “had.” Even though “had fostered” doesn’t sound that great compared to “has fostered”, think about it this way: What if someone was using this sentence to write about the history development of music in New Zealand? That’s a weird way to put it, but in that case, the sentence would be grammatically correct with “had fostered” because it would be writing in past tense about an event that had happened in the past.