<p>Let's list the 14 rules tested on SAT.
1. Don't change "one" to "you"</p>
<p>Wut???</p>
<p>Iknow they test parallelism.</p>
<p>Dangling participles. I'm too lazy to explain what they are, but they're pretty important.</p>
<p>misplaced modifiers - these trip me up the most.</p>
<p>How about we all post examples of a writing question (hopefully hard) that show these errors. Just one per major error thing we're listing. I'll post one in a few..gotta find one.</p>
<p>Using modern forensic techniques, the true identy, it is hypothesized by noted mystery author Patricia Cornwell, of Jack the Ripper, a serial killer who terrorized London in the last nineteenth century, is Walter Sickert, an artist.</p>
<p>A. same as underlined.
B. Patricia Cornwell, a noted mystery author, has hypothesized that Jack the Ripper's true idenity
C. Particia Cornwell, a noted mystery author, has come to the hypothesis that truly the identity of Jack the Ripper
D. Jack the Ripper's true identity as hypothesized by noted mystery author Patricia Cornwell
E. noted mystery author Patricia Cornwell has hypothesized that the true identity of Jack the Ripper</p>
<p>this is an example of a misplaced modifier question.</p>
<p>Anhtimmy's Writing Q - Answer E</p>
<p>Where'd you get that from bro?</p>
<p>^ That question also contains a dangling participle.</p>
<p>It's from PR's 11 Real tests.
I use it for Math and Writing.</p>
<p>I don't touch PR's passages.</p>
<p>^Smart, I thought about doing that, but I'm just going through some tests that I did in the past (the 6 OC from a month ago) and my left over QAS. </p>
<p>That looks like a solid and legit writing Q.</p>
<p>I was so preoccupied about modifying Patricia Cornwell that I forgot about Jack the Ripper. Sort of a double whammy. But now I know what to look out for :D</p>
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<p>SPOT THE ERROR!!!!</p>
<p>Is should be are.</p>
<p>Is that even a real SAT question? It seems way too short to be one.</p>
<p>its not a real question, but that is definitely tested.</p>
<p>Subject Verb agreement is HUGE, but it isn't the easy ones that they will get you on, it is the ones with numerous phrases (especially prepositional phrases) between the subject and verb.-watch out for singular subjects and plural objects of the prepostions: Mary, a friend of mine who is out of town in Boston watching the baseball games, come(s) home Monday.-They get you on games-come, when you should look for Mary-comes. (easy example, but watch for these near the end of sections).</p>
<p>Also, the multiple subjects: The girl or the boys go(es) to the store.-split the subjects and go with the one close to the verb.</p>