7 GOLD rules for WR.

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<p>According to all BB wr sections done here is 7 gold rules. Additions to my gold rules are welcome.</p>

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Parallel structures.</gold></p>

<p>This is mistake that appears frequently than others. Here is example:
In a survey of the school’s fifth graders, playing in gym class, painting in art class, participating in science labs and [lunch time] were all mentioned repeatedly as favorite activities in school.</p>

<p>In this sentence, “lunch time” should be changed to “eating lunch.” Each of the items that the fifth graders mentioned start with an “-ing” word. This is called parallel sentence structure. Each item in a series should be written in the same grammatical form.
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Subject-Verb Agreement.</gold></p>

<p>The committee, made up of several women, [are] deciding on the school budget next week.</p>

<p>The subject of this sentence is “committee”, which is singular and therefore needs a singular verb.
“Is” should replace “are” in this sentence. "Is" should be used with singlular nouns and "Are" with plural.
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Subject-Pronoun Agreement</gold></p>

<p>A smart tennis player such as Samantha is someone who knows how to move around the court, can hit winners at the net, and controls [their] emotions.</p>

<p>“Their” is a plural pronoun. The antecedent, and subject in the sentence, “player”, is singular. Instead of using “their”, the sentence should have used “her” as the pronoun.
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Incorrect Comparisons.</gold></p>

<p>Sam felt extremely confident going into the final round of interviews, because his list of credentials was far more impressive than [his competitor].</p>

<p>The mistake here is in choice D because Sam’s list of credentials is being compared to his competitor
rather than his competitor’s list of credentials. Even though we may understand the sentence, “his competitor’s” or “his competitor’s list” needs to be used so that there is a proper comparison. (P.S ! Remeber than we cannot say "dog's", correct is "dogs'")
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Diction Errors.</gold></p>

<p>When the opera finally came to a conclusion at nine, we still had not eaten dinner and wanted to decide [quick] what type of food everyone would be happy with.</p>

<p>“Quickly” should be used instead of “quick.” If a verb, such as decide, is used in a sentence, an adverb is needed to describe how somebody is going to decide. “Quickly” is an adverb. Adverbs very frequently end in “-ly.” In this example, an adjective, “quick,” was used in a place where an adverb should have been. This is a common mistake used on the SAT that students should really look out for.
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Use of Idioms.</gold></p>

<p>The museum is submitting proposals to several foundations in the hope [to gain] funds to built a tropical butterfly conservatory.
*We can use verb "hope" only with idiom "hope for".</p>

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<p>Remeber!</p>

<p>both .....and..... ex. both [noun] and [noun]
either .......or......ex. either [noun] or [noun]
neither........nor.....ex neither [noun] nor [noun]</p>

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<p>P.S Corrections and additional high-frequency rules are welcome.</p>

<p>I done my best.
Thanks.</p>

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<p>hey read your gold rule number 6:

you see this is also common mistake in real life.
Gold(noun) rule(noun); unless you mean Gold rules(verb) SAT - which means collegeboard is bribed and controlled by gold magnets or something; (I dunno)
you should write Golden(adj) Rule(noun)</p>

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<p>Agree. You are right. Could you add some golden rules?</p>

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<p>well you should read silverturtle’s SAT guide. Writing section of that guide has every “golden rule” to rule SAT writing section.</p>

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<p>I read it. But I was looking for “high-frequency” mistakes. Like I have “3500 words” and I’m looking for “Hot words”.</p>

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<p>Like statistic of mistake’s appearence in BB.</p>

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<p>silverturtle’s guide has that.
[SAT:</a> Improve SAT score with SparkNotes Test Prep: Assess skills online](<a href=“SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides”>SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides) read this guide as well; it is pretty decent guide.</p>

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<p>@Suleyman- What are your practice test scores in SAT Writing? It will help everyone better understand your credibility in this area.</p>

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<p>The Writing section is confined enough that one does not often find himself or herself in a situation that requires compromising prioritization with respect to preparation, with the notable exception, perhaps, of diction.</p>

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<p>^^I think Suleyman is an international student (in Russia or somewhere there, I believe) who is learning English. So, definitely not Silverturtle quality, but his post seems pretty well-written for a person who isn’t a native English speaker. I actually like something like this (i.e. a shorter writing guide) more than I like the writing section in Silverturtle’s guide (not that there’s anything wrong with it). The writing section in Silverturtle’s guide is so damn long that I really don’t want to read it (no offense, Silverturtle), so I’m happy there’s a condensed (if you will) version of the common errors on the writing section.</p>

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<p>^ He probably didn’t write those “GOLD” rules if you read it carefully. All the sentences in the examples are carefully crafted, which I am not convinced that Suley is able to compose such flawless piece. You probably will appreciate silverturtle’s guide later on, if you think a guide is long, you wait till you get to 20~30 practice exams, assuming you will, of course :)</p>

<p>edit: yep i just did a quick google search =P it was from somewhere else</p>

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<p>Yes, his examples and “GOLD rules” are very much copied from here: <a href=“http://cmweb.pvschools.net/~tsmith/FOV2-00041ADE/Grammar%20Rules%20to%20Memorize%20for%20the%20SAT.pdf?FCItemID=S030FD816&Plugin=Loft[/url]”>http://cmweb.pvschools.net/~tsmith/FOV2-00041ADE/Grammar%20Rules%20to%20Memorize%20for%20the%20SAT.pdf?FCItemID=S030FD816&Plugin=Loft&lt;/a&gt;. Thank you for your well-crafted plagiarism Suleyman.</p>

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<p>Never mind, then. This guy is simply a fake.</p>

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<p>This guy has less than a 500 in Critical Reading and Writing, which he had said in some post before. Suleyman also is not a native speaker of English. Goddamn charlatan.</p>

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<p>Guys,
You are definetly right. I’m non-native. My native language is Russian. I have been lerning English for 1 year. One year ago I didn’t know any english word, exept yes/no cat/dog. My current score in CR is bad, but I’m working on it. WR isn’t constant, depend on my concentration. Average from 5 tests in BB -550, but I believe I could get 600 now. I’m also working on my essay.
About my rules, I wanted to make some high-frequency mistakes. Which mistake appears most frequently. Therefore, I made some combination with one resourse’s. Like someone above posted link. But guys, we are talking not about how I made this we are talking about creation 7+ gold rules.
Thanks for everyone.</p>

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<p>^
I am also an international student. I have studied english for like 5 years now. Your English is very good for someone who studied it for only 1 year. Keep practicing,I think you can definitely improve a lot in next year or two to achieve 2000+ in SAT.</p>

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<p>Sure. My January goal is 2000.</p>

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<p>Wow, I’ve been lurking the SAT Preparation forum for a while, and I’ve gotta say, your English has improved a lot from the first time I saw one of your posts.</p>

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<p>^ It’s not his English. He plagiarized almost everything from here: <a href=“http://cmweb.pvschools.net/~tsmith/FOV2-00041ADE/Grammar%20Rules%20to%20Memorize%20for%20the%20SAT.pdf?FCItemID=S030FD816&Plugin=Loft[/url]”>http://cmweb.pvschools.net/~tsmith/FOV2-00041ADE/Grammar%20Rules%20to%20Memorize%20for%20the%20SAT.pdf?FCItemID=S030FD816&Plugin=Loft&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^I’m saying that based on his second to last post.</p>

<p>I realized the first post was copy-pasted.</p>