Saturday, December 2, 2017

Another List of Skills Assessed on the Writing and Language Section of the SAT




Your knowledge of:
  • Relative clauses
  • Prepositional phrases
  • Idioms
  • Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Modifiers
  • Run-ons
  • Fragments
  • Redundancy
  • Parallelism
  • Pronoun reference
  • Tenses
  • Commas, dashes, and colons
  • Apostrophes
  • Word choice
  • Transitions
  • Topic, conclusion, and transition sentences
  • Supporting evidence and examples
  • Relevance and purpose
  • Placement of sentences and paragraphs
  • Point of view
  • Comparatives and superlatives
  • Who vs. whom
  • Combining sentences
  • Data interpretation
Review all the above ideas to do well on the Writing and Language section of the SAT. Use Google and enter search terms to find explanations, examples, and exercises.