<p>So, I've been attacking each section of my Sats at a time. For Math and CR, all I've done is do practice sats which rose my score from 550~ to 700~ Now the last sections is giving me trouble. The essay, I'm good with but grammerrrr. I haven't reviewed any grammer rules since I was 12. I'm staying at a constant 550~ and I just can't get it up.</p>
<p>Should I just do more practice Sats for grammer? Or should I take the time to learn all the rules for it before going back and doing more sections?</p>
<p>Either learn the rules or sort the questions by error type so that you start to see patterns. Here is a sampling of the most popular errors:</p>
<ol>
<li>Subject Verb Agreement Errors (i.e. The number of patients has increased vs. the number of patients have increased)</li>
<li>Verb Tense Errors (i.e. “is” vs “was” or the presence of two "had"s in a sentence)</li>
<li>Verb Form Errors (watch for verbs ending in -ing that are not really verbs)</li>
<li>Noun Agreement Errors (i.e., “platypuses are the only mammal that lays eggs” vs. “platypuses are the only mammals that lay eggs”)</li>
<li>Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Errors (i.e. Each of the patients are sick vs. Each of the patients is sick).</li>
<li>Pronoun Choice Errors (i.e. I vs me)</li>
<li>Pronoun Reference Errors (ambiguous and implied pronouns) (i.e. On the news, they said the man was arrested vs. On the news, the reporter said the man was arrested).</li>
<li>Modifier Choice Errors (i.e. calm vs calmly)</li>
<li>Modifier Placement Errors (misplaced modifiers and dangling modifiers) (i.e, Known for her cooking, great cookies were made by Paula vs. Known for her cooking, Paula made great cookies)</li>
<li>Coordinating Conjunction Errors (and, but, or)</li>
<li>Subordinating Conjunction Errors (although, despite, etc.)</li>
<li>Correlating Conjunction Errors (either…or vs either…and)</li>
<li>Parallel Structure Errors (“types and signs” vs “types and will be signing”)</li>
<li>Comparison Errors (comparative degree, double comparisons, and parallelism)</li>
<li>Run-Ons, Fragments, and Comma Splices Errors</li>
<li>Idiom Errors (“right on that moment” vs “right at that moment”)</li>
</ol>
<p>^thank you for that post! it’s a good consolidated grammar review haha. today is my last day studying - i’m relaxing tomorrow. this should help:)</p>
<p>Fair Lawn eh? Who is this?</p>
<p>Anyway, memorize the idioms, parallelism, and subject verb agreement and you should be fine.</p>