Sentence Revision Questions
You might be asked to revise a sentence for a variety
of reasons.
Revising Awkward Sentences
Most revising sentences questions will have you
untangling confusing or unwieldy syntax. These are two typical ways
the test will pose this sort of sentence revision question:
Which of the following best revises
the underlined portion of sentence 3, which is reprinted below?
Which is the clearest version of the underlined portion
of sentence 2? |
Revising Ambiguous Sentences
Many revising sentences questions will require
you to make ambiguous wording more specific. The following question
asks you to add one word in order to clear up ambiguity:
| In the context of the third paragraph,
sentence 9 could be made more precise by adding which of the following
words after “That”? |
Some questions will ask you to change one vague phrase.
For example:
| The phrase “this thing”
in sentence 5 is made most specific in which of the following revisions? |
Revising Unclear Sentences
Other revising sentences questions will ask you to add
a phrase or word that clarifies an unclear sentence. Look at this
question:
| Which is the best word or phrase to
add after “The movie theater” in order to connect
sentence 3 (reprinted below) to the rest of the first paragraph? |
