Answer Choices
NO CHANGE
as far
as far and
so far as
Explanation for Question 37 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7
37 says the authors of an article published in October, 2013. 2 Go so far to assign blame for the distortion to the newspaper industry. 3 Now 37 is definitely a tough question because it deals with 4 what we call idiomatic phrases. 5 Pretty much. We say certain things in English, 6 just because that's the way that they're said, 7 there's no rule that governs which word to use, 8 which words are incorrect to use. You're just expected to know them. 9 And on the sat, these idiomatic phrases will always include some sort of preposition 10 and knowing you have to know which preposition to use. 11 For example, we would say that something is similar to something 12 you wouldn't say it's similar with something. 13 That's an example of an idiomatic phrase that the sat might test you on 14 37 is definitely hard because the phrase that they want us to identify as 15 not as common as something like similar to, 16 so you can start to pick out 17 your answer based off how many prepositions you see. 18 Don't take that as a rule of thumb, but that's just a pattern that 19 these idiomatic phrases they do include prepositions. 20 So if there are any answer choices that don't include propositions, 21 they are probably going to be wrong. 22 So let's go through this one again, 23 the sentence says that the authors of this article go so far to assign, 24 even though this two looks like a preposition, 25 it's actually being used with this verb to make an infinitive verb, 26 infinitive verbs are the...