SAT Writing

1. SAT Writing Improving sentences By: Carolyn Lyons Elle Durkac & Nicole Dranoff

2. Improving Sentences Checks ability to edit sentences Identify the best choice for stating the underlined portion of the sentence

3. TIPSfor how to approach • Read entire sentence • Not just underlined part • Cover choices until you familiarize yourself with the sentence • Read sentence to yourself • Focus you edit on underlined portion • You can only change what is underlined • If the sentence is correct, choose A • Trust yourself

4. TIPSfor how to approach • Consider the best fix, then check the choices • Think of answer on your own before looking at your choices • Plug in your answer, and read carefully • Avoidstupid mistakes • Keep a eye on parallel bars • Remember parallel structure • Watch out for sentence fragments • Subject and verb are needed

5. TIPSfor how to approach • Avoid wordiness • Shorter is better • Semicolons, commas, and conjunctions • Study differences

6. Example! Running and jumping in new sneakers, and kicking at an anthill to see what we could stir up. sneakers, and kicking at sneakers and kicking at sneakers; and kicking at sneakers, we would kick at sneakers, and kick at

7. Example! • Set in the American Southwest, Tony Hillerman’s mystery novels offer the reader details about Navajo and Hopi culture as well as having suspenseful plots. • having suspenseful plots • the suspenseful plots they offer • have suspenseful plots • they offer suspenseful plots • suspenseful plots

8. Example! Cockroaches were the predominant insects 300 million years ago and are likely to survive into the next era of geologic time. ago and are likely to survive ago; and they are more than likely to survive ago, and it is still likely they could survive ago; still, they would be likely to survive ago, they will be likely to survive

9. Example! • In a recent year, more tourists from the United States visited museums in Great Britain than Canada. • Canada • Canada did • Compared to Canada’s • Canadian ones • in Canada