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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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In my SAT prep book, the sentence, "In years past, teenagers typically passed notes to their friends in class rather than electronic instant messages today." was marked as incorrect because of ungrammatical construction. I don't see what is wrong with the sentence.
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" was marked as incorrect because of ungrammatical construction. I don't see what is wrong with the sentence. What the adverb 'today' modifies is very unclear.
- " was marked as incorrect because of ungrammatical construction.
- I don't see what is wrong with the sentence.
- What the adverb 'today' modifies is very unclear.
- It's meant to relate to 'messages', but it is written as if it might relate to the verb 'passed'.
- I'd say eg In years past, teenagers typically passed notes to their friends in class rather than the electronic instant messages of today.
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In my SAT prep book, the sentence, "In years past, teenagers typically passed notes to their friends in class rather than electronic instant messages today." was marked as incorrect because of ungrammatical construction. I don't see what is wrong with the sentence.
What the adverb 'today' modifies is very unclear. It's meant to relate to 'messages', but it is
What the adverb 'today' modifies is very unclear. It's meant to relate to 'messages', but it is
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This fixes the lack of parallelism:
In years past, teenagers typically passed notes to their friends in class rather than exchanged the electronic instant messages of today.
In years past, teenagers typically passed notes to their friends in class rather than exchanged the electronic instant messages of today.
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