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<p><a href=“AP Program Results – Reports | College Board”>AP Program Results – Reports | College Board;
<p>Page 4, under “Figure 1”</p>
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<p>^Your right! Congratulations on applying your SAT grammar rules successfully :D.</p>
<p>On a technical note:</p>
<p>This sentence is an example of a faulty/illogical comparison.</p>
<p>When you read the sentence, you naturally ask yourself who took AP exams in 2001? But the sentence doesn’t answer it. </p>
<p>There is no noun or pronoun referring to WHO took the exams in 2001. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, an editor at College Board is going to get fired now, thanks to you, nothingto ;).</p>
<p>^OMG. I used a disjunct! :(! Don’t kill me, Grammar God!</p>
<p>What’s the error?</p>
<p>I think finding that error should give you an automatic 800 on your writing section! Nice catch (I would not have noticed!!)</p>
<p>The incorrect sentence is on top of the graphic on page 4, below the words “figure 1.” </p>
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<p>I, uh, actually think that’s correct.</p>
<p>More students today are passing the exams than the number of students who took exams in 2001.</p>
<p>Automatic 800 for you.
For sure.</p>
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<p>You corrected the sentence. The original sentence never stated who took the exams in 2001, which were as you said “the number of students who took exams” which corrected the sentence. False comparison maybe?</p>
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<p>This is a standard construction, so it’s not wrong. I’m still trying to work out the technical grammatical structure that underlies its correctness, though.</p>
<p>Darn, just when I thought I accomplished something by finding out a false comparison error from CollegeBoard. </p>
<p>Oh well, back to the drawing board I guess.</p>
<p>Lol…!</p>
<p>This is tough to explain. Consider this lot of sentences, which completely ignore the grammatical complexity at work here but show a manifest progression to get us to the debated sentence. Each sentence is correct.</p>
<p>More people live now than before. </p>
<p>More people live now than did before. </p>
<p><a href=“Clarifying%20auxiliary%20%22do%22%20added”>i</a>*</p>
<p>More [people live now] than [lived before]. </p>
<p><a href=“Auxiliary%20changed%20to%20verb”>i</a>*</p>
<p>More [people are living now] than [existed before]. </p>
<p><a href=“Predicate%20of%20the%20clause%20that%20is%20serving%20as%20the%20object%20of%20the%20comparison%20is%20now%20different%20from%20the%20main%20verb%20(%22live%22%20to” title=“existed”>i</a>; main verb “live” changed to progressive tense)* </p>
<p>More [students are succeeding on AP Exams today] than [took exams in 2001]. </p>
<p><a href=“Syntactically%20identical%20to%20previous%20sentence%20–%20still%20correct”>i</a>*
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<p>Does that help?</p>
<p>There was also a question on a previously administered SAT that involved this kind of sentence structure. I forgot the exact wording, but it went something like “More people inhabit x than inhabit y”</p>
<p>My goodness, then how will I differentiate false comparisons with these sentence structures so I know the difference between these two?</p>
<p>lol this is so cc</p>