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* infinitive: QID 50445680, 4a90a978, bd11fe93 | * infinitive: QID 50445680, 4a90a978, bd11fe93 | ||
* gerund subject-verb match: QID c91ef0f0 | * gerund subject-verb match: QID c91ef0f0 | ||
* gerund as subject: QID 73a6603c | |||
* non-finite verb where a finite verb is required: QID 6e5bf3a8, 7c48a6dd | * non-finite verb where a finite verb is required: QID 6e5bf3a8, 7c48a6dd | ||
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***"Take this idea, for example." | ***"Take this idea, for example." | ||
****= "[you] Take this idea, for example." << as a sentence or independent clause | ****= "[you] Take this idea, for example." << as a sentence or independent clause | ||
<u>practice questions</u>: 267a13e2, 886dc9f9, aab74a3b, ce81d0b7 (SC), | <u>practice questions</u>: 267a13e2, 886dc9f9, aab74a3b, ce81d0b7 (SC), QID 73a6603c (gerund as subject) | ||
== semicolon ; == | == semicolon ; == | ||
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***thus they can intrude upon a sentence | ***thus they can intrude upon a sentence | ||
***but they ALWAYS have paired punctuation, commas, dashes or parentheses, that isolate them from the rest of the sentence | ***but they ALWAYS have paired punctuation, commas, dashes or parentheses, that isolate them from the rest of the sentence | ||
== Adding it all up: compound and complex sentences == | |||
The more difficult SAT questions will confuse students by adding multiple sentence parts in order to obscure the correct answer. | |||
* prepositional phrases | |||
** ''The goal of the industries in those various economic sectors, given current trends, [ is / are / to be / have been], given current trends, to adapt to changing conditions.'' | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:The goal of industries in the various sectors complex sentence.jpg | |||
File:The goal of industries in the various sectors complex sentence marked.jpg | |||
</gallery> | |||
<u>question examples include</ul>: | |||
* QID | |||
[[Category:SAT verbal]] | [[Category:SAT verbal]] | ||