Some interesting Writing questions...

SunPenguin
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:30:09 +0000

The first question is one of those cases in which the verb comes before the noun. “were” is the main verb, while the guests, cake and music are the subjects of the sentence. And, as Loaded pointed out, “were” should be changed to “are” since the “have become” indicates the overall present tense.

The second one needs a bit of deductive reasoning… The answer can’t be D because the name itself isn’t a “technique”. Can’t be E, since there is an ambiguous “it”. Can’t be B, since the “according to” doesn’t make sense, and the answer can’t be A because a pattern isn’t engraved “for” the technique; a pattern is engraved “by” the technique (by using the technique). So the answer has to be C, and the use of the word, “whereby”, makes sense; whereby means by which.