SAT Question of the Day

[Racer X]

wow, i got it right. I are not a dumbazz.

[dochocson]

I got it right only because the idiom sounded better. I was the same way in school on tests like this; I could pick the correct answer for why a sentence was grammatically incorrect, but I couldn't tell you it was because the pre-participular predicate fricative didn't follow the prepositionary nominative. Or whatever.

[AlphaDog]

dochocson wrote: but I couldn't tell you it was because the pre-participular predicate fricative didn't follow the prepositionary nominative. Or whatever.

Exactly!!!

[wurm]

I'll admit to being wrong. I guessed "B", thinking it should be "...favorite characters in American folklore..."

I'll go get my dunce cap and sit in the corner now.

[mattkime]

agreed!

Mr Downtown wrote:
This seems to test familiarity with idiomatic English, not actual knowledge of rules of grammar, much less propensity for success in college study. It's most effective use would seem to be in weeding out testtakers who come from a non–English speaking home.

[what4]

I would have thought "The Song of Hiawatha" needed to in italics as the title of a book-like work.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Also picked the right answer (for the right reason), but I disagree that there is only one error in that sentence.

[C(-)ris]

what4 wrote:
I would have thought "The Song of Hiawatha" needed to in italics as the title of a book-like work.

I thought the same thing.

[graylocks]

C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=what4]
I would have thought "The Song of Hiawatha" needed to in italics as the title of a book-like work.

I thought the same thing.
it may have been. i did a cut & paste and had to rearrange things a bit. i probably overlooked reformatting the title.