目錄

　　Part I Guide to the SAT Multiple-choice Section

　　Chapter I Introduction to SAT Grammar 3

　　I. Basic Information 4

　　II. Tips for Answering Multiple-choice Questions 6

　　III. Educated Guessing 7

　　IV. Planning Your Time 7

　　V. Practice Makes Perfect 8

　　Chapter II Analysis of the Question Types 10

　　I. Identifying Sentence Errors 10

　　Approaches to Identifying Sentence Errors 11

　　Trim the Fat 12

　　Don’t Give Up 13

　　II. Improving Sentences 13

　　III. Improving Paragraphs 17

　　Essay First 17

　　Questions First 18

　　Answers and Explanations 20

　　IV. Test Yourself 21

　　Part A: Improving Sentences 21

　　Part B: Identifying Sentence Errors 28

　　Part C: Improving Paragraphs 31

　　Answers and Explanations 35

　　Part A: Improving Sentences 35

　　Part B: Identifying Errors 37

　　Part C: Improving Paragraphs 39

　　Part II Grammar concepts tested on SAT

　　Chapter III Verbs 44

　　Basic elements of a verb 44

　　Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 49

　　Subjunctive mood in the noun clause 50

　　Exercise 51

　　1. Warm-up practice 51

　　2. Identifying Sentence Errors 52

　　3. Improving Sentences 55

　　Answers 58

　　1. Warm-up practice 58

　　2. Identifying Sentence Errors 59

　　3. Improving Sentences 60

　　Chapter IV Subject-Verb Agreement 62

　　I. What are subjects and verbs? 62

　　II. What is subject-verb agreement? 62

　　Exercise 67

　　1. Warm-up 67

　　2. Identifying Sentence Errors 69

　　3. Improving Sentences 71

　　Answers and Explanations 74

　　1. Warm-up 74

　　2. Identifying Sentence Errors 74

　　3. Improving Sentences 75

　　Chapter V Pronouns 76

　　Pronoun in the Wrong Number 76

　　Pronoun in the Wrong Case 77

　　Vague or Ambiguous Pronoun 78

　　Pronoun in Comparison 79

　　Pronoun used for Emphasis 79

　　Pronoun before a Gerund 79

　　Pronoun Inconsistency 79

　　Exercise 80

　　1. Warm-up 80

　　2. Identifying Sentence Errors 81

　　3. Improving Sentences 83

　　Answers and Explanations 86

　　1. Warm-up Practice 86

　　2. Identifying Sentence Errors 86

　　3. Improving sentences 87

　　Chapter VI Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 89

　　What is a modifier? 89

　　What is a participial phrase? 90

　　Other frequently tested modifiers 91

　　Exercise 92

　　1. Warm-up Practice 92

　　2. Identifying Sentence Errors 93

　　3. Improving Sentences 94

　　Answers and Explanations 98

　　1. Warm-up Practice 98

　　2. Identifying Sentence Errors 99

　　3. Improving Sentences 99

　　Chapter VII Comparison and Parallelism 101

　　Comparison 101

　　Logical Comparisons 101

　　2. Grammatical Comparisons 103

　　Parallelism 105

　　1. Parallelism in Listing 105

　　2. Parallelism with Connective Words 106

　　Exercise 106

　　1. Warm-up Practice 106

　　2. Identifying Sentence Errors 107

　　3. Improving Sentences 108

　　Answers and Explanations 111

　　1. Warm-up Practice 111

　　2. Identifying Sentence Errors 112

　　3. Improving Sentences 113

　　Chapter VIII Subordination and Coordination 114

　　Subordination 114

　　Coordination 115

　　Comma and Semicolon 116

　　1. Correct Usage of the Comma (,) 116

　　2. Correct Usage of the Semicolon (;) 116

　　Exercise 117

　　目錄 　　Part I Guide to the SAT Multiple-choice Section 　　Chapter I Introduction to SAT Grammar 3 　　I. Basic Information 4 　　II. Tips for Answering Multiple-choice Questions 6 　　III. Educated Guessing 7 　　IV. Planning Your Time 7 　　V. Practice Makes Perfect 8 　　Chapter II Analysis of the Question Types 10 　　I. Identifying Sentence Errors 10 　　Approaches to Identifying Sentence Errors 11 　　Trim the Fat 12 　　Don’t Give Up 13 　　II. Improving Sentences...