SAT writing! Help? (: QUESTIONS

knowthestuff
Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:06:11 +0000

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Choice C) is incorrect. The subject of the sentence is “numbers”, and the verb is “are going”. “people” is an object of preposition and cannot be the subject. Logically, numbers don’t “go”; people do.

In addition, “Feeling, perhaps that…” is placed near the subject “numbers”, when the phrase should be describing people.