Friday 15 August 2008

The Official SAT Question of the Day™

The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E.

By the time(A) Mitzie and myself(B) got to the box office, all(C) of the tickets for the show had already been sold(D). No error(E)


A. (A)
B. (B)
C. (C)
D. (D)
E. (E)

Answer is B

Here's Why:

The error in this sentence occurs at (B), where there is improper pronoun use. The reflexive pronoun “myself” is used incorrectly. The first-person singular pronoun “I” is needed instead so that the sentence communicates clearly that two people “got to the box office.” (“Mitzie...got to the box office” and “I got to the box office”)


Question Type: Identifying Sentence Errors

(Writing)

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