SAT, 26th edition ) Author: Ira K. Wolf Ph.D. | Language: English | ISBN:
B009VJ4HNM | Format: EPUB
SAT, 26th edition ) Description
Optimized for use on the Kindle, the newly revised edition of Barron’s SAT manual presents:•A diagnostic test and five full-length practice tests with all questions answered and explained •Test-taking tactics for the exam as a whole, and special strategies for each part of the test •Subject reviews covering critical reading, grammar and usage, and math •Detailed instruction in writing the required SAT essay •An overview of the SAT, an explanation of the test’s scoring method, and study advice Year after year, Barron’s continues to provide comprehensive test preparation help to thousands of college-bound students who are about to take one of the most important tests of their lives.
- File Size: 24549 KB
- Print Length: 936 pages
- Publisher: Barron's; 26 edition (October 22, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009VJ4HNM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Normally I don't respond to critical reviews both because I think it is right for me as author to stand up and take my shots, and because I appreciate the efforts readers make to point out ways in which I can improve my texts. However, when a reviewer criticizes not only my use of the past perfect tense but James Joyce's use of it as well and calls my editors and publisher "neglectful," I have to speak up. Brad Johnston cites several sentences in the 26th edition of Barron's SAT that he says are "examples of putting 'had' in front of past tense verbs--which is where 'had' does NOT belong." Unfortunately, Mr. Johnston appears not to understand that in English the past perfect tense is formed by combining the auxiliary verb 'had' with the past participle ('given,' 'shown,' 'hoped,' 'worked'). Some past participles end in 'ed' and look like past tense verbs ('hoped' and 'worked,' for example); others, past participles of irregular verbs like 'give' and 'show,' look nothing like their past tense. Mr. Johnston apparently cannot tell the two apart: he condemns the opening sentence of Joyce's "Clay" ("The matron had given her leave to go out as soon as the women's tea was over...") as ungrammatical. "Had gave" would be ungrammatical; "had given" is not.
The past perfect tense may be dying out in English--native speakers often substitute the simple past tense for the past perfect--but that doesn't mean that the past perfect tense, properly constructed, is automatically incorrect. It's important that students taking the SAT understand this. If they don't, they may identify something as a sentence error that's actually correct.
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