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