<p>thanks seaghost</p>
<p>Haha, well either way, we’ll find out in December =)</p>
<p>yay! gurlnextdoor, ur giving me hope.</p>
<p>The manuscript was a rare find, even though it was difficult to decipher and have/has begun to distegrate.</p>
<p>I don’t think it sounds right, lol</p>
<p>I put (E)-No Error as the answer. I really believe that this is correct. However, since we do not know the exact wording of the question, debating it is somewhat pointless. I think the above interpretation of the sentence if very close to the real one. If so, then I think (E) was right.</p>
<p>Oh man, I am thinking way too much about this question. </p>
<p>“EXAMPLE: I had begun to walk to school when I accidentally fell down the pothole.”</p>
<p>But in the statement on the test, there wasn’t anything indicating that the manuscripts had indeed stopped disintegrating. In your example, the second portion of the sentence allows the reader to know that the action was interrupted/stopped, but without it, you’re only saying that the process of beginning to do something was in the past, not that the action itself has already stopped. If that sentence makes any sense at all. Anyway, yeah, we’ll have to wait and see! Everybody’s got pretty valid points. Although it would really surprise me if CB required us to know present perfect vs past perfect at that point in the section.</p>
<p>“Have begun” makes no sense:</p>
<p>The manuscript was a rare find, even though it was difficult to decipher and have begun to disintegrate.</p>
<p>“Have” is for plural.</p>
<p>If anything, instead of “has begun”, it should be “has began,” “had begun,” or “had began.”</p>
<p>lol We’re all crazy.</p>
<p>Damn you, College Board, and your ambiguous questions.</p>
<p>lol, let’s change the subject. Does anyone remember any of the questions that we haven’t gone over from the Nora Zeal Huston(?) passage?</p>
<p>Seaghost: There is no such thing as has/had/have began</p>
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No, because the sentence was written in the past tense: “When the guy found the manuscript, it had begun to disintegrate” (I can’t remember the wording). “Has begun” would be inconsistent. </p>
<p>You’d say that “the process of disintegration had begun at the time that the manuscript was discovered”, NOT “the process of disintegration has begun at the time […]”. </p>
<p>Does that explanation make sense at all?
I always go by ear–but I copyedit for my school newspaper, and I’m conditioned to notice silly grammatical errors.</p>
<p>what were some of the questions that we’ve already gone over?</p>
<p>I’m new here, my friend recommanded this site n I think it’s great. I’m a high school junior, just took the psat, glad 2 see so many smart people here, Hope we can be friends n help each other in ways.</p>
<p>Welcome shooting4Harvard! 
This is an incredible resource, so feel free to post any questions you might have and we’ll do our best to answer.</p>
<p>Haha, after this whole thing my entire conception of verbs is just messed up… CollegeBoard is just retarted for putting that question on.</p>
<p>In the Roman Numeral passage, which was the one that doesn’t fit… Roman I, II, III, or Arabic 3 or 4.
I think I put 4, but people on here kept saying it’s 3, which I don’t really understand. The number 4 isn’t composed of 4 connected bars…?</p>
<p>And what was the main purpose of that passage?</p>
<p>Did anyone else nearly laugh out loud at that part about trees and street signs jumping in front of cars, ha.</p>
<p>And I thoroughly enjoyed whatever-her-face’s new word, “shickalacking.”</p>
<p>Main purpose of that passage was to account for a universal phenomenon, I think.
Shooting 4 harvard, welcome to college confidential. Like me, I’m sure you will find this site to be an excellent resource for almost everything related to academics! =)</p>
<p>what were the tree jumping out and shickalackign questions?</p>
<p>What I’ve found from reading this thread:</p>
<p>No confirmed errors on CR.
No confirmed errors on W.
One almost-certain error on M.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I answered that the number of sides of the polygon was 5, because I didn’t think squares or triangles counted as polygons. Many of you have said 4 was the answer, though, so I must’ve made an error in my reasoning.</p>
<p>Assuming (incorrectly, I’m sure) that was my only error, that would be … around a 237?</p>
<p>i think this was the wording…
“Researchers who study both black and grizzly bears agree that they are the more dangerous and powerful animal.”
i put “more” as an error, because i think “they” refers to bears in general, and bears are being compared to all animals…</p>
<p>I wrote that the “tree jumping out” was a humorous example used to illustrate a point. “Shickalacking” was something about creative use of language.</p>
<p>thx, thisyearsgirl.
I have a question about the math problem which u have party, n given 3 people a pizza, 6 people a salad n 8 people a cake. and the total # of food is “n”, asks how many people were there. what should u do?</p>