@Psycho, about the syllabus thing: that has got to be the stupidest s*** I've ever heard of in my 16 years of living

As for liking school, I enjoyed it, and high school too for quite a while until sophomore year when..."it" happened. But everything's gravy now

meet more ppl have more good times hopefully don't tank my WAM

Hopefully I'll learn useful stuff lol

Anyways, the SAT's English portions do take a bit of work to get used to. They have extremely "proper" standards of grammar, and a lot of the rules are quite esoteric ("He is annoyed at me yelling loudly" vs "He is annoyed at my yelling loudly"). A bit of specialized SAT training helps.

You can do it Texas dude

the grammar section on the SAT was a load of s*** when I took it

I thought they were supposed to be improving it a few years back but I guess not

Yeah, one of my classmates who took the SATs last year at my school said that it was really easy because it was mainly just common sense stuff like punctuation and where to put certain things in sentences.

They actually are, I believe. They're sending out a new SAT test next year.

Really? On the year I must take it? Do you know exactly what will be improved about it?

loudly is an adverb, so it can only affect a verb
yelling is a gerund, meaning it is used as a noun which can only be affected by adjectives
He is annoyed at my loud yelling will be correct

it is pretty prescriptive and there are languages that don't have this issue but regardless

yeah, i still never got that s*** and i'm afraid of failing this goddamn class before i even REALLY start


i wish i had enough money for MIT, that way i only have to take classes that i actually need with no s***

You can use adverbs with gerunds in English, even though gerunds act like nouns (it's still kind of awkward lol).

I forgot what a gerund is. Man...

when
go from a prescriptivist perspective

I dunno, I'm not sure if it's prescribed or anything, but it is allowed (at least according to Wikipedia).

prescriptivists are people who are very set to the rules of grammar, and think that language is only proper when it has these rules. f.e. ending a sentence with a preposition or using the passive voice
descriptivists are people who think that that stuff isn't too important, and that they're very lenient about what is right and what is not. for example, a descriptivist would say that "a red big barn" is alright to say, and a prescriptivist would not, saying it should be "a big red barn."
it's important not to be either but find a good middle ground

what was the wikipedia article