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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 8
Chapter II Analysis of the Question Types 9
I. Identifying Sentence Errors 9
Approaches to Identifying Sentence Errors 10
Trim the Fat 11
Don't Give Up 12
II. Improving Sentences 12
III. Improving Paragraphs 16
Essay First 17
Questions First 17
Answers and Explanations 20
IV. Test Yourself 20
Part A: Improving Sentences 20
Part B: Identifying Sentence Errors 28
Part C: Improving Paragraphs 31
V. Answers and Explanations 34
Part A: Improving Sentences 34
Part B: Identifying Errors 37
Part C: Improving Paragraphs 38
Part II Grammar Concepts Tested on SAT
Chapter III Verbs 43
I. Basic Elements of a Verb 43
II. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 48
III. Subjunctive Mood in the Noun Clause 49
IV. Exercise 50
Warm-up Practice 50
Identifying Sentence Errors 52
Improving Sentences 54
V. Answers 57
Warm-up Practice 57
Identifying Sentence Errors 58
Improving Sentences 59
Chapter IV Subject-Verb Agreement 63
I. What are Subjects and Verbs 63
II. What is Subject-verb Agreement 64
III. Exercise 68
Warm-up Practice 68
Identifying Sentence Errors 70
Improving Sentences 72
IV. Answers and Explanations 75
Warm-up Practice 75
Identifying Sentence Errors 75
Improving Sentences 76
Chapter V Pronouns 79
I. The Usage of Pronoun 79
Pronoun in the Wrong Number 79
Pronoun in the Wrong Case 80
Vague or Ambiguous Pronoun 81
Pronoun in Comparison 81
Pronoun Used for Emphasis 82
Pronoun before a Gerund 82
Pronoun Inconsistency 82
II. Exercise 83
Warm-up Practice 83
Identifying Sentence Errors 84
Improving Sentences 86
III. Answers and Explanations 89
Warm-up Practice 89
Identifying Sentence Errors 89
Improving sentences 90
Chapter VI Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 93
I. What is a Modifier 93
II. What is a Participial Phrase 94
III. Other Frequently Tested Modifiers 95
IV. Exercise 96
Warm-up Practice 96
Identifying Sentence Errors 97
Improving Sentences 98
V. Answers and Explanations 101
Warm-up Practice 101
Identifying Sentence Errors 102
Improving Sentences 103
Chapter VII Comparison and Parallelism 105
I. Comparison 105
Logical Comparisons 105
Grammatical Comparisons 106
II. Parallelism 109
Parallelism in Listing 109
Parallelism with Connective Words 110
III. Exercise 110
Warm-up Practice 110
Identifying Sentence Errors 111
Improving Sentences 112
IV. Answers and Explanations 115
Warm-up Practice 115
Identifying Sentence Errors 116
Improving Sentences 117
Chapter VIII Subordination and Coordination 119
I. Subordination 119
II. Coordination 120
III. Comma and Semicolon 121
Correct Usage of the Comma (,) 121
Correct Usage of the Semicolon (;) 121
IV. Exercise 122
Warm-up Practice 122
Identifying Sentence Errors 123
Improving Sentences 124
V. Answers and Explanations 127
Warm-up Practice 127
Identifying Sentence Errors 128
Improving Sentences 129
Chapter IX Incomplete Sentence and Run-on Sentence 131
I. Incomplete Sentence 131
Sentence Fragment 132
One More Way to Find a Sentence Fragment 133
II. Run-on Sentence 135
III. Exercise 137
Identifying Sentence Errors 137
Improving Sentences 139
IV. Answers and Explanations 142
Identifying Sentence Errors 142
Improving Sentences 143
Chapter X Other Minor Error Types 145
I. Preposition 145
II. Adjectives and Adverbs 149
III. Diction 150
IV. Idiomatic Expressions 151
V. Exercise 151
Warm-up Practice 151
Identifying Sentence Errors 152
VI. Answers and Explanations 154
Warm-up Practice 154
Identifying Sentence Errors 155
Chapter XI Improving Paragraphs 157
I. Questions Types 157
II. How to Revise the Sentence in a Context 159
Comma and Conjunction 159
Use the Answers 160
Excessive Wordiness 161
III. Exercise 162
IV. Answers and Explanations 166
Chapter XII Practice Test on Grammar 169
I. Exercise 169
Improving Sentences 169
Identifying Sentence Errors 172
Improving Paragraphs 174
II. Answers and Explanations 176
Improving Sentences 176
Identifying Sentence Errors 179
Improving Paragraphs 181
Reference 183
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