SAT Reasoning

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Identifying Subject Verb Agreement Errors Identifying Errors in Agreement For Nouns Pronouns How to Identify Errors in Adjectives Adverbs And Nouns Agreement Sentence Agreement Avoiding Faulty Collective Ownership How to Identify Errors in Comparison Correlation Parallelism

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SAT Reasoning: Identifying Errors in Sentence Structure
How to Identify Errors in Comparison Correlation Parallelism

To rectify the simple errors of comparison, correlation and parallelism let’s learn some points. In order to help make communication persuasive we use or write sentences routinely.

How to Identify Errors in Comparison Correlation Parallelism

Structure of Sentences

In order to help make communication persuasive we use or write sentences routinely. Let’s suppose if someone told you as

'Honey to later I some going the am get shop to.' Do you understand or sensed it? Obviously not! The reason is that the sentence lacks of any structure, rules basics for making sentences.

Let it arrange and see

'I am going to the shop to get some honey later,' which is easily conveying someone’s message. So, the sentence structure is the basic element and for its concepts we are going through following.

Comparison

Comparison is the first cause that effects sentence structure.

“Grammatically, comparison shows similarities or differences in degree between two objects or ideas”.

Follow this format to deal with comparison.

Forms:

Comparative(comparative compares only two objects or ideas)
Superlative(superlative deals with comparing three or more)

'er,' is the suffix used for comparative. 'est.' is the suffix for superlative.

For instance,

‘Ali is smaller than Ahmad.'

The adjective, 'small,' has the suffix 'er' to show the comparison of 2 objects to each other.

'Ali is smallest boy in the class.”.'

Now by placing ‘est’ with “small’ we have its superlative form that is “Smallest”.

If adjective have more than one syllables:

Let’s see how to correct them:

'This boy is skillfuler than your son'?

Surely it is not making sense! This is because the adjective 'skillful' has more than two syllables. To make it correct add 'more' before the adjective.

'This boy is more skillful than your son.'

In case of superlative, we add 'most.'

'This boy is most skillful than your son '

Nevertheless, avoid to use 'more' and 'most' in addition to the suffixes 'er' or 'est.'

Parallelism

Parallelism must also be focused after learning comparison. Grammatically,

“Parallelism refers that all parts or words in a sentence that have the same form.”

Let’s see an example:

'Tomorrow I will go fishing, boating and ride.'

So, here you can see fishing, boating, and ' ride' as three activities. Which one is odd? ‘’fishing, boating’’ are parallel. 'Ride' is unparalleled to both. To make it parallel, 'ride' must be changed to 'riding.'

Example # 2

'Today I visited to the park, drove my father to the hospital, and walk four miles.'

Identify which word was not parallel. So, here, 'visited' and 'drove' are in the past tense, but 'walk' is in present. So, change 'walk' to 'walked' in order to make this sentence parallel. Look at verb tense while checking for parallel structure. It is not only followed in verb tense but also while listing nouns and adjectives. If you are using noun don’t interfere it with verb. Same is the case with adjective. Now for more grip, practice parallelism more.

Correlation

The last concept while dealing with sentence structure is correlation. Correlation and parallelism are similar. Grammatically, correlation refers to using words that come in pairs, or correlate with each other.

Common pairs of correlating are:

Either/Or,
Neither/Nor,
Both/And,
Not only/But also.

When you use one word of the pair, the second must be used later in the sentence.

Look at these sentences as examples:

'They either ride or take a bath.'
'The mother not only gave milk, but also assigned a task.'
'I remember both my gift and my Final meeting.'
'Neither the fair nor the cold will stop the jake from doing his job.'

Examine your writing for these correlating pairs of words. Be careful not only to use the correct pairing, but also to include the second word of the pair.