Beat Improving Sentences
Care to guess what you have to
do for Improving Sentences Questions? That’s right:
You have to improve sentences. Improving Sentences questions consist
of a single sentence with one underlined word or phrase. Your mission with
that underlined portion of the sentence is twofold. First, you have
to figure out if there’s a problem with the underlined part. Then,
if there is a problem, you have to decide which answer choice fixes
the problem. Sometimes—one-fifth of the time, in fact—no error will
exist.
The SAT contains 25 Improving Sentences. A group of
11 of the Sentence Improvements appear in the 25-minute Writing
timed section (they appear first in that section). A group of 14
Sentence Improvements makes up the entirety of the 10-minute Writing
timed section. Groups of Sentence Improvements generally increase in
difficulty from the first question in a group to the last question
in the group.
