Writing MC Questions

ChaiMex
Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:02:30 +0000

1) you need “were”. “Have been” means that it is still popular, which is NOT what the sentence is trying to say.

2)“they” is ambiguous. An example my math teacher always uses (not for SAT practice, but for other reasons) “They say it is important”. Who is “they”? What is “it”? You need specific references before you can use ambiguous pronouns.

3) “attempting” wouldn’t be incorrect… I don’t think. But it’s obviously fine as it is. Just because you would word it differently doesn’t mean it isn’t correct. Don’t worry, it happens to me a lot too.

4) I agree with you it DOES sound awkward, but like the above poster said. It’s an idiomatic problem, study a list of idiomatic phrases like: “Between…[A]…and…**”.