However, when it opts for one choice from an arbitrary set and calls the
other incorrect, then it becomes an arbiter.  I don't know that the SAT
does this anymore, but assumptions of correctness can take on the status
of myth and become required in spite of any lack of evidence.

Herb


At 11:04 AM 9/25/2007, Nancy Tuten wrote: . . .
>So are you saying, Alison, that the SAT and other standardized tests 
>would find such usage preferable? . . .

DD: The SAT is not an arbiter of grammar. It is a test to predict how 
the takers will do in college, I think.

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