********Official June 9th 2007 ACT English Thread********

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<p>I think the other word was raise</p>

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<p>I said raise didn’t belong. That one was hard though.</p>

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<p>Foster, encourage, and raise are quite similar. Support, I don’t know.</p>

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<p>But he did “support” the person. It was something about a young talent or something, he had some bilingual book and the author wanted to help him. The author supported him, or forstered him, or encouraged him. Raise just didn’t seem to me to fit. These are just my thoughts about what I put and why, I thought about it for awhile.</p>

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<p>In fact…heres some solid proof that raise didn’t fit…look at this thesaurus
Synonyms for foster <a href=“http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/foster[/url]”>http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/foster&lt;/a&gt;
Synonyms for raise <a href=“http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/raise[/url]”>http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/raise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Support and encourage are each in the synonyms for foster. None of the three are synonyms for raise.</p>

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<p>Reclutantly it was raised.</p>

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<p>Sorry, I remember I put raised as well.</p>

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<p>That makes me happy :)</p>

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<p>it was raised?! YESSSSS THAT JUST MADE MY DAY kind of :D</p>

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<p>congrats guys =(</p>

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<p>I wrote about 1 and 2/3rd’s of a page, is that good enough if my essay is concise? I didn’t feel like just using filling just to make it look longer.</p>

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<p>foster, encourage, support - a family.
raise is out.</p>

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<p>so it wasn’t help my relationships right but rather the long one with strengthen new ones?</p>

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<p>i picked “help my relationships.” It makes sense, since one can help a relationship. I just went with the shorter answer, since these standardized tests love concise answers. The longer answer still works too. I’m torn.</p>

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<p>yeah i was leaning towards the longer one but put the shorter one instead because the longer one was kind of extraneous information that wasn’t really needed and it was just giving one example of relationships so the longer wasn’t needed, imo. Hey doegerle do you wanna discuss some more answers? if so, what’s your s/n</p>

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<p>I PM’d you</p>

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<p>Hey, I’ll discuss some with you guys, PM me your s/n and us three can get together.</p>