Those who have PR '08...Question.

leftwichqb7
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:06:03 +0000

I just took a practice exam for the English section out of PR’s book (Exam 2, btw). I got a 34 because
I “missed” two, but I think one of the two that I missed is very questionable.

70 (I’ll do parentheses instead of underlining):

“I nodded, but with one group needing its check, another demanding (about) its nachos, and a third complaining that the vegetarian tacos had beef in them, I didn’t have time to lavish attention on anyone.”

F. No Change
G. of
H. for
J. OMIT the underlined portion.

I said “for”. However, the answers say, "The correct idiom is to ‘demand something,’ not to demand about, of, or for something.

I mean, I understand why it’s “wrong”, but my thought process was, “You can’t DEMAND nachos.” That was a bad question, IMO, but oh well. If one like that shows up on the real ACT, I’ll remember it.

But, on a brighter note, I went from a 31 to a 34 from the first English exam to the second English exam!

WOOOOOOOOOO