Part I Guide to the SAT Multiple-choice Section
Chapter I Introduction to SAT Grammar 3
I. Basic Information 4
II. Tips for Answering Multiple-choice Questions 6
III. Educated Guessing 7
IV. Planning Your Time 7
V. Practice Makes Perfect 8Chapter II Analysis of the Question Types 10
I. Identifying Sentence Errors 10
Approaches to Identifying Sentence Errors 11
Trim the Fat 12
Don’t Give Up 13
II. Improving Sentences 13
III. Improving Paragraphs 17
Essay First 17
Questions First 18
Answers and Explanations 20
IV. Test Yourself 21
Part A: Improving Sentences 21
Part B: Identifying Sentence Errors 28
Part C: Improving Paragraphs 31
Answers and Explanations 35
Part A: Improving Sentences 35
Part B: Identifying Errors 37
Part C: Improving Paragraphs 39Part II Grammar concepts tested on SAT
Chapter III Verbs 44
Basic elements of a verb 44
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 49
Subjunctive mood in the noun clause 50
Exercise 51
1. Warm-up practice 51
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 52
3. Improving Sentences 55
Answers 58
1. Warm-up practice 58
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 59
3. Improving Sentences 60
Chapter IV Subject-Verb Agreement 62
I. What are subjects and verbs? 62
II. What is subject-verb agreement? 62
Exercise 67
1. Warm-up 67
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 69
3. Improving Sentences 71
Answers and Explanations 74
1. Warm-up 74
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 74
3. Improving Sentences 75Chapter V Pronouns 76
Pronoun in the Wrong Number 76
Pronoun in the Wrong Case 77
Vague or Ambiguous Pronoun 78
Pronoun in Comparison 79
Pronoun used for Emphasis 79
Pronoun before a Gerund 79
Pronoun Inconsistency 79
Exercise 80
1. Warm-up 80
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 81
3. Improving Sentences 83
Answers and Explanations 86
1. Warm-up Practice 86
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 86
3. Improving sentences 87Chapter VI Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 89
What is a modifier? 89
What is a participial phrase? 90
Other frequently tested modifiers 91
Exercise 92
1. Warm-up Practice 92
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 93
3. Improving Sentences 94
Answers and Explanations 98
1. Warm-up Practice 98
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 99
3. Improving Sentences 99Chapter VII Comparison and Parallelism 101
Comparison 101
Logical Comparisons 101
2. Grammatical Comparisons 103
Parallelism 105
1. Parallelism in Listing 105
2. Parallelism with Connective Words 106
Exercise 106
1. Warm-up Practice 106
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 107
3. Improving Sentences 108
Answers and Explanations 111
1. Warm-up Practice 111
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 112
3. Improving Sentences 113Chapter VIII Subordination and Coordination 114
Subordination 114
Coordination 115
Comma and Semicolon 116
1. Correct Usage of the Comma (,) 116
2. Correct Usage of the Semicolon (;) 116
Exercise 117
1. Warm-up Practice 117
2．Identifying Sentence Errors 118
3. Improving Sentences 119
Answers and Explanations 122
1. Warm-up Practice 122
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 123
3. Improving Sentences: 124
Chapter IX Incomplete Sentence and Run-on Sentence 126
Incomplete Sentence 126
Sentence Fragment 127
One more way to find a sentence fragment 128
Run-on Sentence 130
Exercise 132
1. Identifying Sentence Errors 132
2. Improving Sentences 134
Answers and Explanations 137
1. Identifying Sentence Errors 137
2. Improving Sentences 138Chapter X Other Minor Error Types 140
Preposition 140
Adjectives and Adverbs 144
Diction 144
Idiomatic Expressions 145
Exercise 146
1. Warm-up Practice 146
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 146
Answers and Explanations 149
1. Warm-up Practice 149
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 149Chapter XI Improving Paragraphs 151
Questions Types 151
How to revise the sentence in a context 153
A) Comma and conjunction 153
B) Use the answers 154
C) Excessive Wordiness 155
Exercise 156
Answers and Explanations 160Chapter XII Practice Test on Grammar 162
Improving Sentences 162
Identifying Sentence Errors 165
Improving Paragraphs 167
Answers and Explanations 170
I. Improving Sentences 170
II. Identifying Sentence Errors 172
III. Improving Paragraphs 175
Reference 176
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