**OFFICIAL October SAT Writing Thread**

<p>The questions was something like this (anyone remember how it went exactly?)</p>

<p>Many people believe that heat lightning is lightning caused by heat. However, it is actually lightning that is too far away to be audible.</p>

<p>I think I put D. I changed “too far away” to “too far away from the sound”… eliminating the ambiguity.</p>

<p>Anyone else get this?</p>

<p>Was E the answer Gyro said? I think I put the same thing…</p>

<p>-The Same Coot66</p>

<p>neurological baby had “capable to”…which idiomatically incorrect</p>

<p>“capable” is always followed by “of” in a phrase</p>

<p>capable to distinguish blah blah INCORRECT</p>

<p>capbale of distinguishing blah blah CORRECT</p>

<p>Trihfh… i’m almost sure it said “too great a distance” or something different from what you said.</p>

<p>[doublepost]
Just wondering, are we allowed to discuss the essay?</p>

<p>What was the whole sentence. Was capable C?</p>

<p>Which ones was the experimental?
Did anyone have writing as the first section?
Which section included the paragraphs in which the girl could not decide, along with her classmates on a major? It included an african american woman who was an astraunaut, a star trek cast, etc.</p>

<p>“Many people believe that heat lightning is lightning caused by heat. However, it is actually lightning that is too far away to be audible.”</p>

<p>Shouldn’t you take out second lighting in that sentence cuz it’s redundent?</p>

<p>Many people believe that heat lightning is caused by heat. However, it is actually lightning that is too far away to be audible.</p>

<ol>
<li>Games are a phenomenon or games is a phenomenon</li>
</ol>

<p>I put is because phenomenon</p>

<p>studying stud-??</p>

<p>the quesiton with instruments i answered D which was “long since” because i thought it should be “have long since”</p>

<p>what was the lightning one? i think i put no error</p>

<p>what was the easter island one about?
anyone remember the one about the fog in the winter? (is that the one above??)
i feel like i got too many no errors…</p>

<p>me too. i got 4.</p>

<p>wait, sorry to bring this up again - but what was the answer on the warehouses one? i put no error.</p>

<p>i put no error for that as well</p>

<p>so which of these did u guys find errors for?

  1. 65 years or older
  2. warehouses
  3. Easter island sculputres
  4. Musical instruments 300 years old
  5. Heat lightning</p>

<p>there was a prob with the subject-verb agreement. The subject is the derelict house, which shoul dbe followed by a has not have</p>

<p>lol it was talking about two houses… the derelict one and the even more decrepit one.</p>

<p>yeah…just because it said derelict first doesn’t mean it was the only subject…</p>

<p>that’s like saying “john and I goes” because john is the subject…it’s just not true</p>