Recognizing Sentence Errors

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53Recognizing Sentence ErrorsIf you find this part of the New SAT Writing section daunting; you are not alone. The truth is that most public highschools today spend little time on grammar. Perhaps you learned the basics of standard grammar in late elementary andin middle school and have had very little instruction or even review since then. Well, that s another good reason for youto read this book. In the following pages, we review those basic skills that you will be expected to have if you are takingthe SAT Exam. Luckily, a great many of the Identifying Sentence Errors questions relate to a limited number of gram-matical American English is what colleges will expect you to know and use. Often it is not always the way inwhich many of us speak, but, like most things in life, there is a time and place for everything. This is the time and placefor putting your slang and jargon aside and tackling this section as an educated student.

The subject of the first sentence is pictures, which is plural, so the plural form of the verb should be have received. 2. E. Did you choose no change for this sentence? Good. In this case, the Student Council is not being thought of as one single whole, but a group of several individuals. Therefore, the plural form of the verb, came, is correct.

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