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Belly Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Some questions on the SAT

01) I encountered this sentence in Harry Potter:02br
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00"There was a great road from the motorbike and Harry felt the sidecar 01b00give 02b00a nasty lurch"02br
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00Why give can go with felt here?02br
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002) In my SAT preparation, I encounter this problem:02br
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00"The whopping crane population has increased from only 15 to about 2 hundred, 01u00which is one of conservation's most encouraging stories02u02br
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00A) which is one of conservation's most encouraging stories02br
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00b) which is one of the most encouraging stories in conservation02br
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00c) and this one of conservation's most encouraging stories02br
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00d) and this growth is one of conservation's most encouraging stories02br
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00E) and that appears to be encouraging to conservationists02br
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00The answer is D. But I don't still get it, 01b00which02b00 stand after a comma can subtitute for the clause which comes before it, why can't it be the correct answer here? And the answer book also says that: The act of changing which to this does not solve the problem of a pronoun's lack of specific antecedent. I don't get the whole thing02br
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003) 01u00I came in 15 minutes late which02u00 made the whole class difficult to understand02br
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00A) I came in 15 mintues late, and this 02br
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00B) coming in fifteen minutes late02br
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00B is the correct answer. But why not a? They say: The pronounce "which" has no specific antecedent here, and the change of which to this does not correct the problem.... Why??? 0-
  

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01) Perfectly good English:02br 05002br 002) What they mean is that "which" should replace a clear word in the preceding part of the sentence, and that doesn't exist here, thus they first create in D that word "the growth" which shows up clearly as a subject for the 2nd part of the sentence. 02br 003) The original cannot be separated in two distinct independent sentences, while A can be, esp with the comma. q=%22felt+*+heart+give%22&btnG=Search+Books

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01) Perfectly good English:02br
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002) What they mean is that "which" should replace a clear word in the preceding part of the sentence, and that doesn't exist here, thus they first create in D that word "the growth" which shows up clearly as a subject for the 2nd part of the sentence. 02br
003) The original cannot be separated in two distinct indepen
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0I'm sorry, but it has to be "gave", doesn't it?0-
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0No, it must be 01i00"give."02i02br
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00It's 01i00"felt the car (to) give"02i00 but "to" has been lost in time ... Thus it's an atemporal, infinitive form. 02br
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01cite10Belly12cite10"There was a great road from the motorbike and Harry felt the sidecar 11b10give 12b10a nasty lurch"12br
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0Hi,02br
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00refer back to the question again, I've seen which represent the whole clause which comes before it:02br
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00He got married again a year later, 01b00which 02b00surprised everybody0-
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0I posted your question 2 to another forum. Here's an answer from the moderator:02br
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00Perhaps it helps. 0230hrefhttp://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/340600179/m/4441002074
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0Hi Jery, thanks so much for helping me, according to 01a05000 02a00 , he believes 01b00stories 02b00is the problem, not about which or that, so I believe the answer of the book is somewhat off the mark0230hrefhttp://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/eve/forum
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