Sentence Improvement
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Eager
to pass his final exams, studying was the student’s top priority. |
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studying was the student’s top priority. |
| (B) |
the student made studying his top priority. |
| (C) |
the top priority of the student was studying. |
| (D) |
the student’s top priority was studying. |
| (E) |
studying was the top priority for the student. |
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The sentence containing the underlined portion is the stem.
The lettered options beneath the stem are the answer choices. Four
of these are the incorrect distractors; one is correct. (Again,
don’t worry about the answer right now. You’ll get another crack
at this item later on.) The item consists of both the stem and answer
choices.
Note that choice A reproduces the underlined
portion of the stem. This is always the case. Choice A is
essentially Sentence Improvement’s “No error” choice. Expect roughly
20 percent of Sentence Improvements to need no improvement.
