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* HOWEVER, on the SAT Writing section, students can use elimination techniques to eliminate down to the correct idiomatic expression | * HOWEVER, on the SAT Writing section, students can use elimination techniques to eliminate down to the correct idiomatic expression | ||
* see this video for demonstration of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV7QK_ex0jQ&list=PLyC6Fj2OdXlpDypu0__dsv5y6EZS5NpmH&index=1&t=4s on elimination techniques with idiomatic & vocabulary questions (by Michael Bromley)]] | * see this video for demonstration of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV7QK_ex0jQ&list=PLyC6Fj2OdXlpDypu0__dsv5y6EZS5NpmH&index=1&t=4s on elimination techniques with idiomatic & vocabulary questions (by Michael Bromley)]] | ||
Click EXPAND for an example from CB Test 6, Writing question no. 21, on how to eliminate idiomatic possible answers using grammar rules: | |||
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From [https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/sat-practice-test-6.pdf|College Board practice test 6, Writing question no. 21 (test page 30)] | |||
<pre> | |||
Burland [21] advocated using soil extraction: removing small amounts of soil from under the tower’s north side, opposite its tilt, to enable gravity to straighten the tower. | |||
<pre> | |||
A) advocated using | |||
B) advocated to use | |||
C) advocated the using of | |||
D) advocating to use | |||
* In the answer explanation, the CB tells us that B) "advocated to use" and C) "advocated the using of" are wrong because it creates incorrect idiomatic expressions. | |||
* However, we can eliminate them through a grammatical analysis of the possible sentences. | |||
* First, let's look at A) "Burland advocated using soil extraction" | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! Parts of speech | |||
|- | |||
|A) ||'''Burland'''|| '''advocated'''|| '''using'''|| '''soil'''|| '''extraction''' | |||
|- | |||
|part of speech: || subject (noun)|| verb || direct object (gerund) || appositive noun (adjective)|| indirect object | |||
|- | |||
|B) ||'''Burland'''|| '''advocated'''|| '''to use '''|| '''soil'''|| '''extraction''' | |||
|- | |||
|part of speech: || subject (noun)|| verb || indirect object (infinitive) || appositive noun (adjective)|| indirect object | |||
|- | |||
|C) ||'''Burland'''|| '''advocated'''|| '''the using'''|| '''of soil'''|| '''extraction''' | |||
|- | |||
|part of speech: || subject (noun)|| verb || direct object () ||preposition|| indirect object | |||
|- | |||
|D) ||'''Burland'''|| '''advocating'''|| '''to use'''|| '''soil'''|| '''extraction''' | |||
|- | |||
|part of speech: || subject (noun)|| gerund or past progressive missing "was"|| indirect object (infinitive) || appositive noun (adjective)|| indirect object | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
=== Modifiers usage === | === Modifiers usage === | ||