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

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# identify sentence core: "researchers [incorrectly] assumed"
# identify sentence core: "researchers [incorrectly] assumed"
# key nouns: "drought", "researchers", "behaviors", "characteristics"
# key nouns: "drought", "researchers", "behaviors", "characteristics"
# convert participle phrase: "Researchers studied marsupials during a drought."
# convert and simplify participle phrase: "Researchers studied marsupials during a drought."
<blockquote>'' "Studying marsupials <strike>in Western Australia</strike> during a <strike>heavy</strike> drought, <strike>the field</strike> researchers incorrectly assumed <strike>normalcy</strike> <strike>of aberrant </strike>behaviors</strike> for <strike>abiding</strike> characteristics."''</blockquote>
Gives us:
<blockquote>'' Researchers studied marsupials during a drought. <strike>The field</strike> researchers incorrectly assumed <strike>normalcy</strike> <nowiki>[normal?]</nowiki> <strike>of aberrant</strike> <nowiki>[not normal??]</nowiki> behaviors</strike> for <strike>abiding</strike> characteristics."''</blockquote>


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