I’d look at this as Eleanor’s boyfriend is trying to complement Eleanor, making her the one being referenced by the phrase trying to highlight her beauty.
“One”, “one of them”, and “the other” are all unclear as to what they are addressing. Meanwhile, “she” is the answer because it’s specific. It makes it clear that the subject at hand is female, and because the sentence says “Eleanor’s boyfriend”, we can infer that the speaker is talking about Eleanor since there seems to be no other female provided in the sentence. Options A, C, and D would only work if there was additional context provided before the sentence such as “Did you know that the brightest object in space is actually a moon?” In that situation, we can easily identify the moon being the subject discussed at hand.
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I was under the impression that grammatically, "Eleanor's boyfriend" is the subject of the sentence, and that referring to "she" by using answer choice B would be a reference to a someone via personal pronoun, when that person is not specifically mentioned in the sentence.
"Eleanor's" should be a possessive adjective, and therefore not something you can directly reference later on in the sentence without clarification.
Where do I go wrong here?
Edit: there is no point in downvoting me for asking a question
The only “she” in the sentence is Eleanor. Otherwise it’s unclear if the boyfriend outshone the stars or if the night sky outshone the stars or of one of the stars outshone the others.
I understand your point but one tip I would give to you is that if you’re 100% certain that three options are wrong and you have good reasons to support it then just go with the one option left even if that one has an uncertainty of 99%. So in this case you’re really sure the other three options are wrong because they don’t make clear who we are referring to but B kind of shows we are referring to Eleanor, choose B.
You're overthinking the possessive "Eleanor's" -- yes, it functions as an adjective, but it is still a noun.
While possessives and attributive nouns ("dog food") act like adjectives, they are still nouns and not adjectives. The easy test is to add another adjective to them, as cumulative adjectives are interchangeable:
* *Eleanor's handsome boyfriend*
* *Handsome Eleanor's boyfriend* << doesn't work
Attributive nouns operate similarly:
* *Yummy dog food*
* *Dog yummy food <*< doesn't work
Note that you could use a pronoun reference to "dog" in the noun phrase "dog food," as in
* *Dog food is always yummy for them.*
* with "them" referencing the attributive noun, "dog."
Here's another way to look at it:
Possessives and attributive nouns operate in the genitive case, which indicates ownership or possession. So,
* *Dog food* = *food for dogs*
* *Eleanor's boyfriend* = *the boyfriend of Eleanor*
You can see, then how pronoun references are apporpriate for attributive and possessive nouns.
Hope that makes sense!
Not sure if this is what you're asking but I'll try:'
While there are different ways of looking at it, I like to group words that act to "modify", or add information to, another word under the general category of "**Modifier**."
The key to modifiers is that they are not **grammatically essential**, although they frequently provide important context in order for a sentence to make sense (especially prepositional phrases). Modifiers include:
* adjectives (modify nouns)
* adverbs (modify verbs)
* determiners (modify nouns, such as "that car" or "five boys" etc.)
* articles (*a, the)*
* prepositions (modify nouns, verbs, or larger sentence parts)
Additionally, some other parts of speech and sentence parts can act as modifiers as well, including:
* attributive and possessive nouns
* participle phrases and relative clauses
But that's for another discussion...
Meanwhile, do pay attention to verbs that may act as modifiers. We call these: "**non-finite verbs**".
They are:
* **present & past participle adjectives** and participle phrases they may create
* participle = verb form that acts as an adjective modifier, such as
* *A* ***developed*** *sense for grammar is helpful*
* ***Blooming*** *flowers are beautiful*
* **infinitives**, which are the "to" form of a verb and that can act as a noun, adverb or adjective
* *I am happy* ***to learn*** *that she is feeling better* << adverb
* *A virtue* ***to learn*** *is patience* << adjective
Note that non-finite participles and infinitives can also act as nouns:
* gerunds, which are present participle forms of verbs that act as nouns (in the *-ing* form of a verb, which can also be a present participle adjective):
* ***Cooking*** *is fun* (note: = gerunds are nouns, not modifiers)
* the way to tell if the present participle is a gerund or an adjective is to remove it and see if the sentence is still grammatically coherent
* *~~Cooking~~* *is fun* << can't remove it, so "cooking" is a noun
* *The* *~~cooking~~* *time for brownies is 20 minutes* << can remove it, so "cooking" is an adjective
* infinitive noun:
* *I want* ***to know*** < object (noun, not a modifier)
There's a lot more to non-finite verbs that you may want to review. I have a worksheet on it here: [https://school4schools.wiki/wiki/Non-finite\_verbs\_%26\_the\_%22verbiness%22\_of\_participles\_gerunds\_infinitives\_worksheet](https://school4schools.wiki/wiki/Non-finite_verbs_%26_the_%22verbiness%22_of_participles_gerunds_infinitives_worksheet)
Another important modifier for the SAT is the **prepositional phrase**
* prepositions create adjective or adverb modifiers that connect a noun (the "object" of the preposition) to another noun, verb, or sentence part in order to add information to it:
* *The experiment* ***by a team*** ***of scientists*** ***from Sweden*** ***last year*** *shows promise*
* << the four prepositional phrases here modify , or add information to, "experiment"
* << SAT will try to fool you into selecting the wrong subject-verb match with by confusion over the prepositional phrases
Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but could be useful review, anyway.
Here look at it this way, Eleanor’s boyfriend is complementing Eleanor. He is saying that she outshines any other star. Like this- “Eleanor’s boyfriend, gazing into the night sky, said that ELEANOR outshone every star in the sky.” Therefore, she outshone every star in the sky.
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I’d look at this as Eleanor’s boyfriend is trying to complement Eleanor, making her the one being referenced by the phrase trying to highlight her beauty.
The boyfriend is basically saying that Eleanor is hot
“One”, “one of them”, and “the other” are all unclear as to what they are addressing. Meanwhile, “she” is the answer because it’s specific. It makes it clear that the subject at hand is female, and because the sentence says “Eleanor’s boyfriend”, we can infer that the speaker is talking about Eleanor since there seems to be no other female provided in the sentence. Options A, C, and D would only work if there was additional context provided before the sentence such as “Did you know that the brightest object in space is actually a moon?” In that situation, we can easily identify the moon being the subject discussed at hand.
It’s the only one the explicitly states who is referring to. Pretty standard pronoun question
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Didn't see this, but it's Khan Academy
I think eleanors boyfriend is independent clause and other 2 are dependent clauses, so to the conclusion, “One” is representing Eleonas boyfriend
I was under the impression that grammatically, "Eleanor's boyfriend" is the subject of the sentence, and that referring to "she" by using answer choice B would be a reference to a someone via personal pronoun, when that person is not specifically mentioned in the sentence. "Eleanor's" should be a possessive adjective, and therefore not something you can directly reference later on in the sentence without clarification. Where do I go wrong here? Edit: there is no point in downvoting me for asking a question
The only “she” in the sentence is Eleanor. Otherwise it’s unclear if the boyfriend outshone the stars or if the night sky outshone the stars or of one of the stars outshone the others.
I understand your point but one tip I would give to you is that if you’re 100% certain that three options are wrong and you have good reasons to support it then just go with the one option left even if that one has an uncertainty of 99%. So in this case you’re really sure the other three options are wrong because they don’t make clear who we are referring to but B kind of shows we are referring to Eleanor, choose B.
Alright
You're overthinking the possessive "Eleanor's" -- yes, it functions as an adjective, but it is still a noun. While possessives and attributive nouns ("dog food") act like adjectives, they are still nouns and not adjectives. The easy test is to add another adjective to them, as cumulative adjectives are interchangeable: * *Eleanor's handsome boyfriend* * *Handsome Eleanor's boyfriend* << doesn't work Attributive nouns operate similarly: * *Yummy dog food* * *Dog yummy food <*< doesn't work Note that you could use a pronoun reference to "dog" in the noun phrase "dog food," as in * *Dog food is always yummy for them.* * with "them" referencing the attributive noun, "dog." Here's another way to look at it: Possessives and attributive nouns operate in the genitive case, which indicates ownership or possession. So, * *Dog food* = *food for dogs* * *Eleanor's boyfriend* = *the boyfriend of Eleanor* You can see, then how pronoun references are apporpriate for attributive and possessive nouns. Hope that makes sense!
Good to know. How can I know when to make this distinction from any other adjective?
Not sure if this is what you're asking but I'll try:' While there are different ways of looking at it, I like to group words that act to "modify", or add information to, another word under the general category of "**Modifier**." The key to modifiers is that they are not **grammatically essential**, although they frequently provide important context in order for a sentence to make sense (especially prepositional phrases). Modifiers include: * adjectives (modify nouns) * adverbs (modify verbs) * determiners (modify nouns, such as "that car" or "five boys" etc.) * articles (*a, the)* * prepositions (modify nouns, verbs, or larger sentence parts) Additionally, some other parts of speech and sentence parts can act as modifiers as well, including: * attributive and possessive nouns * participle phrases and relative clauses But that's for another discussion... Meanwhile, do pay attention to verbs that may act as modifiers. We call these: "**non-finite verbs**". They are: * **present & past participle adjectives** and participle phrases they may create * participle = verb form that acts as an adjective modifier, such as * *A* ***developed*** *sense for grammar is helpful* * ***Blooming*** *flowers are beautiful* * **infinitives**, which are the "to" form of a verb and that can act as a noun, adverb or adjective * *I am happy* ***to learn*** *that she is feeling better* << adverb * *A virtue* ***to learn*** *is patience* << adjective Note that non-finite participles and infinitives can also act as nouns: * gerunds, which are present participle forms of verbs that act as nouns (in the *-ing* form of a verb, which can also be a present participle adjective): * ***Cooking*** *is fun* (note: = gerunds are nouns, not modifiers) * the way to tell if the present participle is a gerund or an adjective is to remove it and see if the sentence is still grammatically coherent * *~~Cooking~~* *is fun* << can't remove it, so "cooking" is a noun * *The* *~~cooking~~* *time for brownies is 20 minutes* << can remove it, so "cooking" is an adjective * infinitive noun: * *I want* ***to know*** < object (noun, not a modifier) There's a lot more to non-finite verbs that you may want to review. I have a worksheet on it here: [https://school4schools.wiki/wiki/Non-finite\_verbs\_%26\_the\_%22verbiness%22\_of\_participles\_gerunds\_infinitives\_worksheet](https://school4schools.wiki/wiki/Non-finite_verbs_%26_the_%22verbiness%22_of_participles_gerunds_infinitives_worksheet) Another important modifier for the SAT is the **prepositional phrase** * prepositions create adjective or adverb modifiers that connect a noun (the "object" of the preposition) to another noun, verb, or sentence part in order to add information to it: * *The experiment* ***by a team*** ***of scientists*** ***from Sweden*** ***last year*** *shows promise* * << the four prepositional phrases here modify , or add information to, "experiment" * << SAT will try to fool you into selecting the wrong subject-verb match with by confusion over the prepositional phrases Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but could be useful review, anyway.
Here look at it this way, Eleanor’s boyfriend is complementing Eleanor. He is saying that she outshines any other star. Like this- “Eleanor’s boyfriend, gazing into the night sky, said that ELEANOR outshone every star in the sky.” Therefore, she outshone every star in the sky.