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New SAT
600 - 2400 400 – 1600
3 Hours
45 Minutes 3 Hours (+50 minute optional)
Critical Reading: 200-800
Evidence-Based Reading
and Writing: 200-800
Writing: 200-800
Math: 200-800 Math: 200-800
Essay (included in Writing score) Optional Essay (separately scored)
Time per question:
Reading 72 sec 52 quest 65 min
Writing and Language 48 sec 44 quest 35 min
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Subject Verb agreement
She and her friends are at
the fair.
The book or the pen is in the
drawer.
His friends or the boy runs every day.
Everyone has finished his or her homework.
There are many questions.
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Practice
The President, accompanied by his wife, ___________traveling to
India.
The crew ______ preparing to dock the ship.
Five dollars
_______a lot of money.
The news ____on at six.
My glasses _______on the bed.
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Answer
The President, accompanied by his wife, is traveling
to India.
The crew is preparing to dock the ship.
Five
dollars is a lot of money.
The news is on at six.
My glasses are on the bed.
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Tricky one
Either A or B
Neither A nor B
Must
agree with A or B?
agree with B, the noun
closer to the verb.
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Practice
Either Kiana or Casey ____ helping today with
stage decorations.
Either Kiana or Casey is helping today with
stage decorations.
Neither she, I, nor my friends ____going to the festival.
Neither she, I, nor my friends are going to the festival.
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Singular or Plural?
Phenomena
Phenomenon
Criteria
Criterion
Data
Datum
athletics
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Alumni
Alumnus
Bacteria
Bacterium
Algae
Alga
Fungi
Fungus
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Singular or Plural?
each, anyone, anybody,
anything, another, neither, either,
every,
everyone, someone, no one, somebody, everything,
little, and much
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none (of), any (of), some (of), most (of),
more (of), and all (of).
All of them can be
either singular or plural, according to the noun that follows
Phrases that start as well as . . . , together with . . . , along with . . . , or in addition to . . .
are not part of the main subject
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How to “Trim” a Sentence
Step 1: Cross out
all nonessential prepositional phrases.
e.g., The bird in the cage
began singing.
Step 2: Cross out all interrupting phrases.
e.g., The committee, ignoring tradition, will approve the measure.
Step 3: Cross out all other nonessential modifiers and modifying phrases.
e.g., Having traveled so far, the baseball team hardly wanted to forfeit the championship game.
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Can you spot an error?
Juggling the demands of
both school and my social agenda often seem too
much to bear.
Juggling the demands of both school and my social agenda often seem too much to bear.
Juggling the demands of both school and my social agenda often seems too much to bear.
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One more
Others on the committee, like the chairwoman
Amanda Sanders, is concerned about the lack of attention
given to school safety.
Others on the committee, like the chairwoman Amanda Sanders, is concerned about the lack of attention given to school safety.
Others on the committee, like the chairwoman Amanda Sanders, are concerned about the lack of attention given to school safety.
