<p>Minus the essay because I'm taking the PSAT this year.
So out of the 3 sections, grammar is my strongest point. I'm not a native speaker, and the section that gives me the most trouble is Identifying error. You 800-ers, please show me your method, and how do you prepare for this, and what material you use to get a perfect score on grammar
thank you</p>
<p>You posted quite a bit in my SAT guide thread, so I assume that you read it. Was the grammar section insufficient? I didn’t leave any major concepts out, as far as I know. Identifying error questions are pretty much all grammar, when you look at them fundamentally.</p>
<p>Look at each choice by itself and compare it to the rest of the sentence. Process of elimination helps. Also, remember that the words that are NOT underlined are correct and thus you should match the whole sentence accordingly to them so those that do not match are incorrect.</p>
<p>I read it, and I like the preposition section.
I kind of know nearly everything on the grammar part, but I tend to make careless mistakes. Only after I checked did I realized how I was off
But this is one question that shows up on my practice tests:
The ribbon shirt, now worn throughout the southwestern United States on special occasions, is based on a style imported by settlers and adapted by the Osage Nation in the early 1990s. No error</p>
<p>Which error can you identify?</p>
<p>Diction error - imported –> introduced</p>
<p>I dont think they test diction on the SAT?</p>
<p>Most likely not, but it IS the Collegeboard that is making the test. You never know.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is tested on the sat</p>
<p>I don’t see an error in that sentence. But the SAT definitely tests diction on occassion, as I indicated in the guide (which I thought you read? :)).</p>
<p>I also do not see an error in the sentence. You can import ideas, styles, and abstract things, too, by definition. What did you think the answer was?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about diction errors unless you have some weird way of approaching the sentences that they give you. You should always be trying to understand the sentence at hand, meaning diction errors should be obvious to you. Diction errors can’t really be studied for since any word can be used incorrectly. Plus they are rare. They normally appear 0 or 1 time on the SAT.</p>
<p>To prepare for the writing section all I did was use the blue book.</p>
<p>I score perfectly on the SAT
or
I score perfect on the SAT?</p>
<p>The first one of course. And score would have to be scored.</p>
<p>If you want to use perfect as an adjective, you would say “I received a perfect score on the SAT.”</p>
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<p>Actually, neither of them is technically correct. “perfect” is not a noun there, so you can’t score it. And you wouldn’t use an adverb because you’re not describing how you scored; you’re trying to describe what you scored.</p>
<p>Of all of the students in my class, nobody, not even me ,</p>
<p>are excited about the new teacher . No error .</p>
<p>I got this off sparknotes. I know “are” is incorrect, but me here, is it supposed to be an object or subject?</p>
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<p>There are two errors. The sentence should be:</p>
<p>Of all the students in my class, nobody, not even I, is excited about the new teacher.</p>
<p>“me” (an object) is wrong because it needs to be in the same case (the subjective case) as “nobody.”</p>
<p>That was what I thought too
but sparknotes only picks up one</p>
<p>Silverturtle: “And you wouldn’t use an adverb because you’re not describing how you scored; you’re trying to describe what you scored.”</p>
<p>Isn’t “perfectly” a word? If so, then the 1st sentence would be grammatically correct.</p>
<p>If not, then the sentence should be “I scored a perfect on the SAT”.</p>
<p>Oxford dictionary says:
Perfectly= In a perfect manner
so:
I did the test perfectly
is it right?</p>
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<p>“perfectly” is a word, but it is not being used correctly there.</p>
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<p>No, “perfect” is not a noun with that meaning.</p>
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<p>You could say that, but it is a bit ambiguous. However, saying that you “scored perfectly” is incorrect unless you are one of those people who hand-scores the tests and you didn’t make a mistake.</p>