Sentences Questions

The following are examples of the different improving sentences questions you may be tested on in the SAT. There are 161 questions here to practice, so by the time you get to the last one, you will be well prepared to tackle this section of the SAT  

Although meteorologists continue to get more and more advanced technology and equipment, their weather forecasts wrong about 50% of the time. 

Some couples have their first child before they have learned any real parenting skills, while a few reading books and attending seminars as soon as they find out they are pregnant. 

The number of grocery store shoppers that carry a wallet full of coupons with them is growing, approximately 50% of those in line have at least one applicable coupon to apply to their purchases. 

Raymond s new vacuum worked beautifully on the interior of his new car, he still was not able to get the pine needles from last year s Christmas tree out of the side pockets. 

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Do all of the easiest Identifying Sentence Errors and Improving Sentences questions first. Then, complete the harder questions of those types. Finally, tackle the Improving Paragraphs questions. 

We ll first look at how these questions are structured, then review the writing issues you re most likely to encounter. Before you try your hand at ten Improving Sentences questions, you ll learn the best strategies for approaching them. 

In each Improving Sentences question, part or all of the sentence will be underlined. Choice a will repeat the original underlined text. Approximately one in five times, choice a is the correct answer because the orig-... 

One of the favorite issues in Improving Sentences questions is coordination and subordination, because it tests your ability to see logical relationships between ideas. To tackle these questions, you need to determine how the ideas in the clauses work together. Is one idea in addition to the other In contrast Is there a progression in time or sequence How exactly does one idea relate to the other Here s an example ... 

Whether it s the main mistake in the original prompt or a flaw in one or more of the distracters, unnecessary wordiness is a common error in Improving Sentences questions. In general, the more concise, the better (as long as all necessary information is conveyed). Wordiness has many causes, including ... 

Look for the most commonly tested errors. There are seven kinds of mistakes that pop up most often in Improving Sentences questions. If you are having trouble finding an error, do a quick check for the common errors described in this section. 

Read each question carefully. Unlike Identifying Sentence Errors and Improving Sentences questions, the prompts and answer choices for Improving Paragraphs will vary. All will offer five choices (a-e), but choice a will not always repeat the original text... 

About 20% of the Identifying Sentence Errors and Improving Sentences questions will have no error. That means for Identifying Sentence Errors questions, you ll select choice e ( no error ), and for Improving Sentences questions, you ll select choice a (same as the original sentence). 

Don t waste time reading choice a in Improving Sentences questions it merely repeats the original sentence. 

With improving sentences questions, answer choice a will always be a repeat of the underlined portion. If you choose a, it means you are saying there is no error. 

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