SAT Reasoning

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SAT Writing Language Test Standard English Conventions Improving Sentences on The SAT Question Types Samples Strategy Identifying Sentence Errors on The SAT Question Types Samples Strategy Improving Paragraphs on The SAT Question Types Samples Strategy Practice With Improving Sentences For The SAT Practice With Identifying Sentence Errors For The SAT Practice With Improving Paragraphs For The SAT

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SAT Reasoning: SAT Writing & Language Test: Words in Context
Practice With Identifying Sentence Errors For The SAT

Now practice with examples to get command on identifying and correcting sentence errors.

Practice With Identifying Sentence Errors For The SAT

Things to Remember with Sentence Errors

As of March 2016, SAT has passed through some big alterations. It has modified to large passages. Now, you have enough material to spot the errors of sentence.

Keep the following steps under consideration while working with it:

Don't waste time in determining the nature of question that it is a sentence error, sentence improvement, or paragraph improvement question.
Remember, the choices of sentence error question will have features like verb conjugations, different punctuation, and other forms of differing agreement.
Consider the punctuation as well.
Subjects-verbs agreement must also be considered.

An Easy Example

Let begin with easy example:

We are busy in a great civil war, examining whether that nation, or any nation so gestate and so consecrated, can long tolerate. We are encountered on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to devote a part of that field, as a necropolis for those who have sacrificed their lives for the survival of nation. It is altogether accommodation, and proper that we should do this.

Here underlined part is ‘altogether accommodation’, so, look up the error and decide from choices:

altogether accommodation, and proper
altogether, accommodation and proper
altogether accommodation ; and proper
altogether accommodation and proper

As it is testing about the use of punctuation mark, so

A is same as text.
B contains random comma, so it's clearly wrong.
C possese semicolon which isn not suitable.
D is the correct answer.

A Tougher Example

Let’s have a bitter tough example.

But, in a larger sensation, we cannot commit -- nor devote -- nor sanctifies -- this land.

Here “nor sanctifies” is underlined. Here are your choices:

nor sanctifies
or sanctifiy
or sanctifiy
nor sanctify

A is same to the text as usual. As subject is ‘we’, so there is incorrect conjugation of verbs. So, A is wrong.
B has the same verb conjugation as A, so it is also incorrect.
C and D both cop the conjugation, but are diffrent.
As negation is used in sentence, so D is correct.

Lesson Summary

Here we have practice on examples to rectify the sentence errors in SAT. You have given choices from which you have to spot the error. Major concerns in these questions are: