SAT Writing Questions

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<p>Q1) The ancient manuscript A)was a valuable find, B)even though the writing was difficult C)to decipher and the paper D)had begun to disintegrate. E)No Error</p>

<p>Answer is E and I have no idea why D is not the answer. I thought this sentence had parallelism error.</p>

<p>Q2) In the eighteenth century a simple method of musical notation helped to make music more popular than in any century. </p>

<p>Answer is ‘any century’, but why?</p>

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<p>Q2) any other century.</p>

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<p>Q1)
“was difficult to decipher” and “had begun to disintegrate” are parallel–they are both verb phrases. The tense difference is required by time reference and does not impair parallelism</p>