Beat Improving Sentences
The SAT Writing section doesn’t
mess around. For Identifying Sentence Errors you had
to identify errors in sentences. Care to guess what you have to
do for Sentence Improvement 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.