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<p>Shame upon the high school student who does not know bellicose, cantankerous, chided, and fastidious!</p>
<p>I can’t even tell when people on this site are being sardonic anymore, but, yeah, those are fairly common words, especially by junior year.</p>
<p>^ That you are unsure of whether I was serious suggests that your exposure to high school students has given you a skewed impression of the average high school student’s knowledge. The vast majority of high school juniors would not know the definitions of any of those words, let alone all of them.</p>
<p>I think it’s sad when you know that Silverturtles grammar section is much better then many books that you need to pay for.</p>
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<p>This should be put in PDF format for all to print. It’s amazing!</p>
<p>I love the AP section. Thank you for this great thread!</p>
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Yeah it’s amazing! Also this guide was already put into PDF format. I think the latest one is here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/10973967-post904.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/10973967-post904.html</a></p>
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<p>Also, terrific guide, silverturtle. I can’t thank you enough how amazing and helpful it is. I have a question though. When you were in the verb section talking about moods, particularly the subjunctive moods, you said at the end:
I’m confused as to how knowing the mood of a sentence would be helpful on answering question, as I don’t think any of the questions ask the test taker to name the mood. What types of questions then, could knowing the mood be helpful?</p>
<p>It was the middle of this post: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/10765557-post14.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/10765557-post14.html</a></p>
<p>Thank you very much!</p>
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<p>You won’t ever need to know the name subjunctive, but you may be required to recognize a failure to use the subjunctive mood. So if a question were</p>
<p>I wish that I was a bit stronger.</p>
<p>you would need to recognize that was ought to be in the subjunctive mood (were in this case) because it expresses a wish.</p>
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Oh okay. That makes a lot of sense and would be pretty helpful. Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Where can I get a copy of Grammatix? Would anyone like to sell me their copy?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi, silverturtle great job and it was a great help.
I don’t know if it has already been discussed here before but i have a confusion:
(from #15 regarding parallelism)
incorrect: Professor Ali rewarded his students for their hard work on the final project and going beyond the call of duty.-sentence 1</p>
<p>correct: Professor Ali rewarded his students for working hard on the final project and going beyond the call of duty-sentence 2</p>
<p>When we consider “going” a gerund (which, according to this guide #15 Failing to distinguish between participles and gerunds, we should because it is “going beyond the call of duty” that is given an emphasis), shouldn’t the original sentence be grammatically correct? The actual structure thus would be:
Professor Ali rewarded his students for their hard work on the final project and (their) going beyond the call of duty. (where “their” is hidden to avoid redundancy) </p>
<p>Or is it that a possessive pronoun(their) should always precede the gerund (going) if it were to be considered a gerund? I seriously need help.</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
<p>Beyond that, I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking. “hard work” is not parallel with “going”: Only the latter is a gerund. However, “working hard” and “going beyond the call of duty” are both gerund phrases and, thus, parallel with one another. </p>
<p>As for the possessive pronouns, standard practice is to use them to modify gerunds only when ambiguity would exist otherwise. In this case we have little doubt that it is the students who are working hard and going beyond the call of duty, especially since “his students” is the direct object of the verb (“rewarded”) for which “for working hard…” is a complement.</p>
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<p>I’m sure you’ve already gotten this message a hundred or so times, but seriously, it’s amazing that you were willing to put this all together for us. I can’t thank you enough.</p>
<p>Hey, great thread! I just had one question though. I am from Canada, and noticed you saying its almost impossible for an international applicant to get into top tier/ivy schools. How much harder is it and what can I do to furthur improve my chances? I am in grade 11 (hoping to make Yale but will apply to all ivies). Also, does being Canadian put me at a disadvantage in taking the SATs? Thank you very much, I have read your whole guide like five times now lol :D</p>
<p>Thank you so much Silverturtle, you really relieved the stress that Writing M/C was previously causing me.</p>
<p>Why type of catagory would this fall under.</p>
<p>He presented himself before the judge, knowing full well that he was guilty yet hoping for leniency.</p>
<p>(A) yet hoping
(B) yet he hoped
(C) and he hoped
(D) and yet hoped
(E) and he was hoping</p>
<p>Silverturtle wrote: Princeton Review is solid for SAT Biology.</p>
<p>But isn’t Barron’s better for SAT Biology?!</p>
<p>Thank Silverturtle for your great help. But I cannot download the document in the pdf format on the website: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/10973967-post904.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/10973967-post904.html</a> Can anybody who has this pdf send it to me? My email: <a href="mailto:sophie2006purple@yahoo.cn">sophie2006purple@yahoo.cn</a> Thank you so much!</p>