<p>After lurking on CC forums for a lil while i decided to come out of the shadows. XD.</p>
<p>Anyways, I realized that most of the questions I get wrong in the Writing/Grammar Section(s) of the SAT are the idioms/preposition use. Does anyone know of some sort of list or review thing to help? That would be... well, helpful.</p>
<p>read sparknotes 7 deadly screwups</p>
<p>Some here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/598634-idiom-list.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/598634-idiom-list.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks. :)</p>
<p>I guess i should have remembered to use the search bar. >____>.</p>
<p>Here’s the problem with idiom errors: there are so many rules to worry about that it’s almost impossible to remember them all. Students typically either know them or they don’t. I have a long list of idiom rules in my tutorial, but I have found the following tip very helpful and much less time-consuming. </p>
<p>First of all, most of the idiom errors occur on the Identifying Sentence Errors section. Take a first pass and leave any questionable questions blank (ones that you think might have an idiom error).</p>
<p>You should expect 2 or 3 errors per section. (Every test in the new College Board book agrees with these numbers). Also, you should expect 3 to 5 (E)'s (No Errors). When you’re done with the section, go back and look at the ones you left blank. Expect 2 or 3 of them to be idiom errorsprobably the questions that sound the most awkward to your ear. The other questions that you left blank likely have no errorspick (E). However, if you end up with more than five (E)s, youre probably missing some other, more-obvious grammar errors. You might need to get a book and review the more common grammar errors. </p>
<p>Hope this helps. Good luck.</p>
<p>-Erik Klass, owner of KlassTutoring and author of The Ultimate SAT Tutorial</p>
<p>hmmm interesting…</p>
<p>So about half of all errors are idiom errors…</p>