SAT Digital Reading and Writing Test quick start guide: Difference between revisions

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** try to fool the student into mis-matching a subject with a non-finite participle
** try to fool the student into mis-matching a subject with a non-finite participle
**ask to combine two sentences or clauses using a participle phrase   
**ask to combine two sentences or clauses using a participle phrase   
***i.e., going from "Eight graders take Algebra. Ninth graders then have to take Geometry."    
***i.e., going from ''Eight graders take Algebra. Ninth graders then have to take Geometry.''    
****to "After taking Algebra in eighth grade, ninth graders take Geometry"
****to "''After taking Algebra in eighth grade, ninth graders take Geometry''
 
=== Prepositions / Prepositional Phrases quick start guide ===
*'''prepositions'''
**include ''about, by, from, near, of, on'' , etc.
*prepositions create a relationship between nouns
**the nouns or other words that follow the preposition are called a "prepositional phrase" ("about something I once knew")
*prepositional phrases establish a relationship with a noun or as part of a subject-verb clause:
**ex. adding information to a subject noun: "The ideas of the professor are novel."
**ex. adding information to a subject-verb: "The professor was educated at Yale."
*for the SAT, only prepositions that come before the verb matter
*the noun in prepositional phrases are '''NEVER the subject of a sentence'''
**elimination:
***for subject-verb matching, the preposition/ prepositional phrase is NOT the subject 
****ex. ''Books about sailing are fun'' and not ''Books about sailing is fun''
*****"about" = a preposition, so "sailing" is not the subject and the verb is therefore matched to the plural "books"


==Conjunctions quick start guide==
==Conjunctions quick start guide==
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* note: use of an apostrophe to create a contraction with a noun and the verb, "to be" is informal and not measured on the SAT  
* note: use of an apostrophe to create a contraction with a noun and the verb, "to be" is informal and not measured on the SAT  
**ex., "winning's good" for "winning is good" is informal
**ex., "winning's good" for "winning is good" is informal
== Prepositions / Prepositional Phrases quick start guide ==
*'''prepositions'''
**include ''about, by, from, near, of, on'' , etc.
*prepositions create a relationship between nouns
**the nouns or other words that follow the preposition are called a "prepositional phrase" ("about something I once knew")
*prepositional phrases establish a relationship with a noun or as part of a subject-verb clause:
**ex. adding information to a subject noun: "The ideas of the professor are novel."
**ex. adding information to a subject-verb: "The professor was educated at Yale."
*for the SAT, only prepositions that come before the verb matter
*the noun in prepositional phrases are '''NEVER the subject of a sentence'''
**elimination:
***for subject-verb matching, the preposition/ prepositional phrase is NOT the subject 
****ex. ''Books about sailing are fun'' and not ''Books about sailing is fun''
*****"about" = a preposition, so "sailing" is not the subject and the verb is therefore matched to the plural "books"


== Punctuation and "restrictive elements" quick start guide ==   
== Punctuation and "restrictive elements" quick start guide ==   
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