SparkNotes: Old SAT: Sentence Completion Instructions

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4.1	Sentence Completion Instructions

4.2	Anatomy of a Sentence Completion

4.3	Decoding Sentence Completions

4.4	Answering Sentence Completions

4.5	The Five Types of Sentence Completions

4.6	Don’t Know the Vocabulary? There’s Still Hope

Sentence Completion Instructions

You should be comfortable with the test instructions before you arrive on test day. Here are the instructions for the sentence completions. Learn them.

Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words labeled A through E. Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Example:


	Medieval kingdoms did not become constitutional republics overnight; on the contrary, the change was ----.
	(A)	unpopular
	(B)	unexpected
	(C)	advantageous
	(D)	sufficient
	(E)	gradual

Correct Answer: (E)

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