<p>the phrase “fairly well acquainted” is fine. I’ve come across it in my reading.</p>
<p>I was kind of torn with the fairly well question because the sentence was</p>
<p>Although I was fairly well acquainted with the material, I decided to study a little more the night before the exam.</p>
<p>Even if Fairly is removed, the meaning of the sentence remains the same, so it might be redundant, but i think i picked no error</p>
<p>bannas, i thought writing was significantly easier than it was in december. i had trouble with the “fairly well acquainted” and the opossum (mightve been experimental?) questions.</p>
<p>You guys are analyzing that question too much… the point is to find the GRAMMATICAL error. And there is nothing grammatically wrong (or even wrong in general IMO) with saying “fairly well acquainted”.</p>
<p>Thank you Government. When you do these writing questions you must think, would a published writer compose a sentence like this? Don’t overanalyze.</p>
<p>redundance and dition is rarely tested on SAT. Style errors are only tested in sentence corrections, sentence completions is usually all grammar hence why passives are allowed there.</p>
<p>anyone have suggestions on how to recognize comparison errors since in everyday english we all misuse comparison.
“my test grades were better than the entire class”</p>
<p>“my test grades were better than those of anyone in the entire class.” something like that… you can’t just compare “test grades” to “class”</p>
<p>yeah i know if someone told me the question was comparison i’d recognize it… but since it’s so colloquial i jsut miss over it and often than not i don’t see it >.></p>
<p>yea, i didn’t think there was anything wrong with “fairly well-acquainted”
that seems to be something the ACT would test…</p>
<p>What about the bird one? It was like the fourth bird sentence correction, about nocturnal birds. I picked E, because D was referring to “birds which…at night” and I thought it would have to be “birds that…at night”. Can anyone confirm?</p>
<p>i remember that question, but i don’t remember my answer
i’ll get back to you when i have something, though :)</p>
<p>Regarding the fairly acquainted one, do you guys think the “I thought that” could be an error? I was thinking that maybe the “that” was unneeded. So you could change “I thought that I should study a bit more” to “I thought I should study a bit more.” I wasn’t sure…</p>
<p>@pigs<em>at</em>sea, that’s not really a good approach (regarding your published writer thing), because many writers make tons of grammatical errors.</p>
<p>yeah, and with the writing section, you’re not trying to change the meaning of the sentences. you’re supposed to clarify them by correcting grammatical/diction errors.</p>
<p>if was the first writing section that was real and the second was the exp rite?</p>
<p>nahh if there were only two writing sections (one with 35 questions, the other with 14), they were legit.</p>
<p>oh no
i mean the two 35 questions. the 2nd one was exp?</p>
<p>Sorry if this has already been answered but what was the solution to the identifying-sentence-error question dealing with ‘students staying after class to ask questions’?</p>
<p>the students staying after class question had E, no error.</p>
<p>@pigs<em>at</em>sea
I don’t remember the entire sentence but what allowed the underlined portion “for which” to be grammatically correct?</p>
<p>@jasdves.
u only had one writing section rite? that one and the section 10?</p>