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
Improving Sentences on The SAT Question Types Samples Strategy

Besides improving sentences, SAT also examines number of questions for Conventionalizing the sentence and making it strong.

Improving Sentences on The SAT Question Types Samples Strategy

The New SAT and Improving Sentences

Now college board has practiced some changes in the old version of SAT. It has simplified the test by providing the questions to which you are familiar and already learned in your regular classes. Especially, it has enhanced the Writing and Language Skills Test.

Besides analogies or vocabulary, it has helped you in your writing.

This lesson would discuss improving sentences and you will learn tactics to deal with them.

Question Types

Now the larger passages are given as context in SAT. No doubt, the unnecessary ideas are also given in the passage to divert your attention, however, we will work to get command over improving sentence. Following are the groups that deals with the solution to that questions:

Effective language use is the basic one. Your job is to concise the sentence as much as you can by avoiding wordiness. The test-makers use variety of words to explain as they think that people believe in prolixity for explaining something but that is not actually the case. You have to express much in few words.

Then look on the infrastructure of sentence. Determine the active nature of sentence and make it appropriate according to the structure of Subject, Verb and Object.

Strategies

Here are some strategies that help you to solve the sentence improvement questions. Firstly, do not spend and waste time on guessing the nature of question whether it is related to sentence improvement questions or not. Following would be tactics for you in dealing with such questions:

Concentrate on tedious answer choices
Think that whether those words are necessary or not.
It would be the wrong answer if the structure to an answer choice is confusing.
Active voice must be considered.
Keep away from the passive nature of sentence. As passive writing disliked, so we should not use it.

Example

Let's solve the questions:

The fast red wolf was outrun by the cat.

The fast red wolf was outrun by the cat.
The rapid, but not much frightful wolf, was Excel by the cat.
The cat outran the fast red wolf.
The cat was outrun by the fast red wolf.

So, A is passive in nature and as it is the question is given. B due to wordiness eliminated. C is to the point and have active nature. D is totally remote in meaning. So, C, the best one, is correct.

Lesson Summary

This lesson has taught you the nature of sentence improvement questions in SAT. The questions are grouped as effective language use. We have focused to select the active sentences. To test these questions SAT provides you the lengthy passages so to be careful while testing these questions.