SAT Writing
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| 813846116 | Faulty Idioms | words, expressions, and phrases whose usage cannot be rationally explained, need to know the quirks of the English language | |
| 813846117 | Faulty Diction | faulty word choice, when good is used instead of well after a certain verb, when "where" is used instead of "when" | |
| 813846118 | Adjectives | words that describe, or modify, nouns and pronouns, good, cannot be used after most verbs, "talks good", etc., substitute "to be" in to check whether verbs are linking or active | |
| 813846119 | Adverbs | words that describe, or modify, verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, and can often be identified by their -ly endings, find the verb and determine whether it is a linking verb, if it is, use the adjective, if it isn't use the adverb, substitute to be | |
| 813846120 | Wordiness/Redundancies | a sentence needs revising when it includes words and phrases that don't add meaning or that repeat or reiterate what has already been stated, etc. | |
| 813846121 | Faulty Parallelism | orderly construction of a sentence keeps parallel ideas in the same grammatical form, ideas in a series should be in the same grammatical form, even when the series consists of only two items, parallel ideas should be in the same grammatical form, parallel ideas are often signaled by pairs of words like either/or, neither/nor, etc. | |
| 813846122 | Incomplete Comparisons | when comparisons are made, a familiar pattern requires the items being compared to be stated in parallel form | |
| 813846123 | Noun-Verb Agreement | must agree in number, intervening words obscure noun-verb relationship, singular noun sounds as though it is plural, noun is one that can be either singular or plural, the noun comes after the verb in the sentence | |
| 813846124 | Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | pronouns and antecedents must agree in number, etc. | |
| 813846125 | Faulty Pronoun Reference | error occurs when pronouns fail to refer clearly to their antecedents | |
| 813846126 | Shift in Pronoun Person | pronouns must agree in person throughout a sentence | |
| 813846127 | Faulty Pronoun Case | pronouns must be in the proper case, nominative case pronouns are reserved for grammatical subjects and predicate nominatives | |
| 813846128 | Faulty Verb Tense | verb tense indicates when an action takes place, when a sentence contains a verb in the wrong tense or when an improper shift in tense occurs from one part of the sentence to the other | |
| 813846129 | Faulty Verb Form | need to make sure the verb is in the correct form based on its tense | |
| 813846130 | If a Verb is Underscored | search for errors in tense, errors in form, agreement with the subject or other noun, and parallel structure | |
| 813846131 | If a Noun is Underscored | search for errors in number and agreement with a verb, parallelism, and word choice | |
| 813846132 | If a Pronoun is Underscored | search for errors in case, number, gender, agreement with antecedent, reference to a noun or another pronoun, and agreement with verb, and parallel structure | |
| 813846133 | If an Adjective/Adverb is Underscored | search for errors in word choice, modification, and comparative degree | |
| 813846134 | If a Phrase/Clause is Underscored | search for errors in parallel structure and sentence structure | |
| 813846135 | If a Participle is Underscored | search for an error in modification |
