Mastering the SAT Writing Test
Chapter One
Recognizing Sentence Errors
If you find this part of the New SAT Writing section daunting; you are not alone. The truth is that most
public high schools today spend little time on grammar. Perhaps you learned the basics of standard grammar in late
elementary and in middle school and have had very little instruction or even review since then. Well, that's another
good reason for you to read this book. In the following pages, we review those basic skills that you will be expected
to have if you are taking the SAT Exam. Luckily, a great many of the Identifying Sentence Errors questions relate to a
limited number of grammatical issues.
Standard American English is what U.S. colleges will expect you to know and use. Often it is not always
the way in which many of us speak, but, like most things in life, there is a time and place for everything. This is the
time and place for putting your slang and jargon aside and tackling this section as an educated student.
Note that we're talking about standard A ... read full excerpt from Mastering the SAT Writing Test: An In-Depth Writing Workout ebook
