A regressive tax is (when a tax) imposes a heavier burden on low-income taxpayers than on high-income tax payers.
a) same
c)a tax where it
d)one that
i know why (a) is wrong bc tax cannot impose but what are the differences between (c) and (d)… aren’t those both using ambiguous pronouns which are “one” and “it”?
P. 776 – q. 14 (A)
My colleague and myself received an award for our paper on accuracy with which a polygraph measures physiological processes. No error
The availability of transportation had a dramatic impact on the lives of women, who had traditionally been less mobile.
Is the “who” referring to women or the lives of women?
If you cross out the nonessential prepositional phrase (of women), only the subject (lives) would remain, so isn’t it referring to the “lives”?
“Ain’t nobody chasin’ nobody nowhere.” Hopefully if you’ve been reading this blog for a while you’ve internalized the notion that YOU SHOULD CHECK EVERY SINGLE PRONOUN YOU ENCOUNTER on the SAT. The most common pronoun errors are pronoun-antecedent agreement errors, but pronoun case questions pop up enough in SAT writing sections that you should familiarize (more…)
