<p>wait how did the noble prize one read? and how about the #13, #14 on section 10?</p>
<p>so, I’m almost positive that there were 5 NE because they speed of sound wasn’t comparing what medium it was traveling through it was still comparing the speed of sound</p>
<p>On the commitment to question, does anyone remember the sentence…i know i either put commitment to or committed to but i cant remember.</p>
<p>I think the full choice was displays commitment to, not commitment to alone.</p>
<p>here’s the thing with the speed of sound question</p>
<p>this is the question(more or less):
“the speed of sound in air is faster than that of sound in water”.</p>
<p>Everyone that says its NE states that “that” is replacing “the speed” and not “the speed of sound”</p>
<p>however, if you phrase the statement like this:</p>
<p>“The speed of sound is fast in air. However, it is faster in water” (which has the same meaning as the sentence above…)</p>
<p>the pronoun replaces “the speed of sound”. If you try saying</p>
<p>“The speed of sound is fast in air. However, it of sound is faster in water”,</p>
<p>the sentence no longer makes grammatical sense. The fact that you would use the pronoun “it” instead of “that” in that particular example does not change the logistics of the sentence itself. </p>
<p>Therefore, the answer is incorrect and not NE.</p>
<p>wait… what did you guys get for the “committed to” question? Does 'committed in" make any sense?</p>
<p>And i’m pretty sure on #11, it was “;of which many are not found” because the other choices had ambiguous pronouns.</p>
<p>Sorry @SAT200 your choice does not make up a complete thought after the semicolon so it had to be “many found nowhere else around the world”</p>
<p>Also for the speed of sound question I put NE because, as someone said before, there’s nothing “gramatically” wrong with it in that something is significantly wrong. The sentence still could stand and be correct. Of course some of these sentences could be improved, but there was nothing egregiously wrong that could be validated by any rule. Just the mere fact that we are discussing it so much probably suggests that its no error because it could go either way, which means that it is gramatically right the way it was presented.</p>
<p>yes, but “anywhere else around the world” wasn’t underlined so it would technically be “…(;of which many are not found) anywhere else around the world.”</p>
<p>your choice is fundamentally gramatically wrong it cannot exist even in a normal sentence no matter what was underlined a semicolon must connect two complete thoughts and a sentence starting with “of which” certainly does not express a complete thought.</p>
<p>@SAT200, that’s wrong. “of which…” can’t stand alone. sorry :/</p>
<p>wouldnt it be grammatical to say “many of which are not found anywhere else in the world”. i didn’t like that answer i just thought it was better than the rest.</p>
<p>I’m quite positive(90%) that the speed of sound had an error. Like MANY people stated before, the comparison is not the issue but the structure. I’ve taken 15+ practice sat tests recently and there are numerous instances where the exact same error comes up. And remember, looking at it from a logistical stand point, 15-20% no error and the fact that the last 5 are usually hard questions that easly trick up the majority of people stands on its own.</p>
<p>Who knows? Unless we hire a grammarian, let’s just wait the 20 or so days.</p>
<p>Oh, and “that” in “that of sound water” can refer to the speed or the air, making it a case of ambiguous pronoun.</p>
<p>yeah but if it could represent either it could take the place of the speed, making the sentence gramatically correct. Yes, the sentence could be improved but there’s nothing definitely gramatically wrong about it.</p>
<p>What about the watermelon one?</p>
<p>What was the answer to the bird question? It went like this “Although both birds…, but the rufus bird’s song is sweeter than that has the other bird.”
I was really confused because logically although and but don’t work. but the last part didn’t seem right either.</p>
<p>@juanita</p>
<p>The “although” was wrong.
The sentence read:
Although the two birds are…, but the brown bird is a better singer(something like this)
But the main part here is BUT cannot be in the same sentence as ALTHOUGH, so…although was wrong since it was underlined and but wasn’t.</p>
<p>Here’s my 2 cents on the speed of sound one:</p>
<p>At first, I thought it’d be “that of…”, that kind of mistake. But, since it was in the late 20s, I knew it was a red herring. </p>
<p>I remember that it was like, the speed of something, like liquids [emphasis on the liquids], are blah blah THEY…</p>
<p>pretty sure it was ‘they’, non clear subject…</p>
<p>Was the one about lizards experimental? Please say it was.</p>