Official September 2013 ACT English Thread

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<p>@sillyup yeah I knew it definitely had to be a “than” sentence. I also put “than having been” but wasn’t sure if it was right. Thanks</p>

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<p>Honestly, I felt like I wasn’t choosing the right answer on the question, just the least incorrect one. ACT should throw it.</p>

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<p>Yeah that one was absolutely ridiculous. I read it over a thousand times and put ‘than be’. Someone a couple pages back had some plausible reasoning to back my side up</p>

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<p>Well, I sort of made my own example while I was taking the test to see if it would work:
I ate rather than having been hungry vs
I ate rather than be hungry. </p>

<p>That made my decision a whole lot easier.</p>

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<p>I’m trying to tell everyone the answer was “than being”</p>

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<p>^ “then being” was an option. “than being” was not.</p>

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<p>Silly there was a “than being” & it was the correct one</p>

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<p>It’s funny that there were two “having been”/'than being" questions. I’m pretty sure the first one in the Anno story was “having been” and the second one in the war story was “than being.”</p>

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<p>@coleworld, sillyup is correct. i clearly remember the only two “than” answers were “than be” and “than having been”… and i believe “than having been” is the more correct one</p>

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<p>sillyup once again correct and jtc276 i know that stuck out to me too</p>

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<p>100% sure it was than not then i was on this question for a while “than be” did not seem correct so i was stuck between having been but since it didn’t really flow i chose than being because it did when you took out the main parts of the sentence and what it was trying to say</p>

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<p>What did you guys get for the one on the civil war passage that stated “women who joined”? The answers had different variations with commas like women, who joined,…</p>

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<p>i am not entirely positive about the “than be” and “than having been” question but the correct answer is usually the most concise so thats why i went with “than be”, also answers with words that end in -ing create confusion and often make sentences more complex than they need to be.</p>

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<p>also if you saying having been doesnt it imply that they were already separated from their families, and didnt they do it to avoid separation from their families>?</p>

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<p>I said “than be” and didn’t really think about it when I was taking the test. It sounded the best when I read it aloud, and to me, it made grammatical sense.</p>

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<p>“than being” was not an option. </p>

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<p>Okay well i’m sure it was no point in arguing.</p>

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<p>In regards to the discussion between “than be” and “than having been”, I believe that the answer is “than be” because the sentence implies a situation that hasn’t actually occurred. She wasn’t actually separated, it was just mentioned as a possibility. “having been separated” refers to something that actually happened, while “be separated” refers to a situation that is talked about in the past tense but didn’t actually occur.</p>

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<p>coleworld95, I know 110% that it wasn’t an option, because I bubbled in the distraction choice “then being” first and realized my mistake and changed it.</p>

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<p>Smart I read every choice to make sure it did not say “then” I will top your 110% with 120% ;)</p>