SAT Reading and Writing skill
Sentence boundaries, punctuation, agreement, verb forms, and modifiers: about 26% of Reading and Writing.
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A beginner-friendly guide to sentence boundaries, comma splices, semicolons, and the punctuation choices that show how ideas fit together.
Read articleThe noun right before the verb is often a decoy. Learn to cross out interrupting phrases, spot inverted sentences, and handle tricky subjects like “each” and “neither … nor.”
Read articleA colon needs a complete sentence before it, and extra information needs matching punctuation on both sides. Learn the two rules behind many SAT punctuation questions, with visuals and quick practice.
Read articleDates, phrases like “by the time,” and the other verbs in a sentence point to the right tense. Follow a visual timeline from past perfect to future, then practice the patterns the SAT tests.
Read articleStudent, students, student’s, or students’? Learn a two-question test for apostrophes, why possessive pronouns never use them, and the its/it’s check that takes two seconds.
Read article“Walking to school, the rain soaked Ana” says the rain was walking. Learn the one rule behind dangling modifiers and how to spot the right answer in seconds.
Read articleComma questions reward knowing a few firm rules. Learn the four places a comma belongs and the three places it never does, with a sentence-by-sentence check and quick practice.
Read articlePractice Standard English Conventions
Turn an article into points: practice a few questions on this skill while the idea is fresh.