Explanation for Question 38 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 3
Not for question number 38, we're looking at our sentence and we see that 2 it says for centuries, cats have guarded this famous museum, 3 reading of mice, rats, and other rodents that could damage the art, 4 not to mention scared off the visitors. 5 Right. And so this is a subject verb agreement question, 6 and also a little bit about, you know, verb tense, 7 right? And so if we look here, um, it says, 8 could damage the art, not to mention scared off visitors. 9 And so earlier in the sentence we used the verb in the path or 10 in the present tense, we use the verb damage in the present tense. 11 And that shows us that what we really want to do here with scared 12 is use it in present, not in, um, 13 in past tense. So we can eliminate a, 14 we can eliminate B and also, 15 um, also D just based on the tense of the verb, 16 right? Because it needs to be in present tense, 17 just like earlier on. And then we see that we're talking about rodents, 18 right. Rodents that could damage the art and rodents is 19 a plural thing. So we want the plural version of the verbs scare, 20 which is also what we see and see. 21 So C is good because it's plural just like our subject. 22 And it's also in the present tense, just like the verb damage.