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Didn’t the one with “to threaten” mismatch with the causes because it used “has”?
I’m not entirely sure but that’s how I remembered it. You could be right though. But there’s also the issue that “angered the workers to threaten” doesn’t exactly sound right, not that I know for sure if it is the right form or not.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it used “have”</p>
<p>Was the choice “have angered workers to threaten a general strike”? I can’t remember if there was a helping verb or not.</p>
<p>in AP Lang, were studying SAT words, and one of our words was maverick, so i was happy :)</p>
<p>1) I think you guys are wrong about the tones of the 2 passages about grammar “sticklers”
In the first passage, there was no statement that implied or let the reader infer that the passage is joking. Without such a statement, you cannot infer that the passages were “playful”. The first passage guy called grammar sticklers a “snoot” --a person regarded as arrogant and annoying (that doesnt sound very playful). </p>
<p>I think defiant was the answer, because the first guy was defiant against grammar sticklers. and the second guy was defiant against the normal rest of society, who arent grammar stickelers…</p>
<p>2) Does anyone remember the exact question for the Africa question: it went somethign like this: “Which of the statements would refute the idea that the future of African parks depend on Western Conservationialist”? </p>
<p>Also, what were the answer choices?
I think one was: Africans had helped build parks
another one was : Although Africans are unkonwn/ discredited of helping in conservation, they did do a lot for conservation.</p>
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The first passage guy wasn’t really defiant; he came off as just rather critical, though with a playful connotation, supported by his almost ironic usages of dysphemism and snooty. And frankly, I didn’t really interpret a defiant tone in the second passage but rather, once again, playfulness in teasing fellow Grammar Nazis.</p>
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I think it was the one where like Africans were involved in the thought process and the planning.</p>
<p>I hadn’t chose the Africa choice you just mentioned and I had a reason, but just don’t remember now.</p>
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I think it was that. But does anyone know for sure whether it is appropriate grammar to say “…have angered them to {infinitive}”? It doesn’t seem right to me. In fact, I could possibly interpret the sentence as “The causes have angered the workers [in order] to threaten the labor strike,” and in that interpretation it is ultimately the causes that are responsible for intentionally provoking a labor strike. This was a pretty tricky question IMO and I really didn’t love any of the answer choices.</p>
<p>And do you guys remember the one about resistance to beneficial as well as harmful bacteria or something? I went with no error because I convinced myself that resistance to was the correct idiomatic expression and that as well as was proper usage because the purpose of the sentence is to distinguish the resistance to good bacteria as the obstacle to cancer treatment. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>I don’t think there was anything wrong with the infinitive there. It seemed to be the best choice to me.</p>
<p>I also put no error for the resistance one…debated about this one for a while. I’m pretty sure that resistant to is idiomatic. As well as is slightly awkward, but I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with it. So far I’m at</p>
<p>-2 math
-1 reading (I put defiant, but I admit that playful was probably a better choice)
-1? writing</p>
<p>^^Right, I put no error for that one.</p>
<p>I need to know if anyone put “scholarly collaboration” for the view in passage 1. I mean, both authors agreed that library books were generally reliable. But doesn’t the first author believe that Wikipedia is NOT a good site for scholarly collaboration and that libraries are.
Does that make sense, or did I think too far into the question?</p>
<p>^that’s what i put,</p>
<p>i put factitious…are you sure its oracular? also for the math question about a to the b sqaured equals 64 and how many choices are there for a to the b squared…it was the last question on math section 2…i got 3 ways…8 squared, 4 cubed, and 64 to the one power.</p>
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<p>Thanks! Wow, that sounds really lenient! I really hope the curve is like that, I’d be soo stoked to qualify for NM!</p>
<p>um sudflower there is a fourth way: 2^6</p>
<p>i put factitious…are you sure its oracular? also for the math question about a to the b sqaured equals 64 and how many choices are there for a to the b squared…it was the last question on math section 2…i got 3 ways…8 squared, 4 cubed, and 64 to the one power. </p>
<p>What about 2^6?----four ways.</p>
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There goes my 800 in math. Forgot 64 to the 1st.</p>
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The second passage says that books can be unreliable sources at times. Therefore I put the answer saying that, unlike passage 2, passage 1 views the library as a trustworthy source.</p>
<p>Is it true that we aren’t supposed to talk about all of the questions? Did any of you guys sign something that said you couldn’t?</p>
<p>^Frankly, if something were wrong with discussing questions the moderators here would have stopped this thread before it reached 10 posts, let alone 480. Plus, usually after the SAT there is a question discussion embargo that lasts for a few hours; after that you can pretty much discuss anything about the test. I’m sure the same sort of thing applies to the PSAT.</p>