<p>So I keep missing the "no error" questions on the writing section in the middle section. Not the paragraph ones but just the sentence ones... i usually get 1/5 of those no error questions right. how can i fix this...</p>
<p>Nothing helps more with the writing questions than practicing. Sometimes, however, it’s hard to tell why something is wrong. In those cases, feel free to post the questions, and I or another poster will do our best to explain the relevant rule.</p>
<p>nono. the questions im missing HAVE no error. I miss 4/5 of these questions and these are the only questions im missing (maybe 1 wrong from some question that was hard). I know practice is the absolute best way to do deal with the SAT which is what I am doing, but I still am missing these =/.</p>
<p>Just look at each answer choice and see if it fits in relation to the sentence, and cross out the ones that are right. If you know your grammar well enough you should get the majority, if not all of those questions right without much effort.</p>
<p>My advice holds true for all writing problems. You need to learn why specific aspects of a sentence are right as well as why some are wrong.</p>
<p>can someone help me with my question?</p>
<p>Although she had prepared throroughly, Kristin broke her ankle, and it made her unable to compete. No error.</p>
<p>im pretty sure it is C since “it” does not refer to anything specific, therefore it is ambiguous.</p>
<p>“It” could even mean the ankle. Was it the ankle that made her unable to compete? Or was it the injury? </p>
<p>Btw, this is a rhetorical quesition.</p>
<p>don’t read the sentence fragment by fragment or phrase by phrase (pausing only at commas or where there’s an underlined word). When you do this you thinkthat long sentences are harder cuz it’s more data to read. But in fact I believe that the EASIEST sentences are the long ones especially when you don’t understand all of the grammar. There’s a bigger chance of clues elsewhere in the sentence in the long sentences when you can’t pinpoint the exact error than in the 1-2 lined sentences. Read the sentence word by word and underlining the subjects (whether they’re plural or singular), underlining verb tenses because verbs in a sentence often have to match(although this is a little bit more difficult to explain as modifiers can be different from the tense of the sentence. The sentences are filled with clues, pay attention to them and you’ll soon see them without most effort. Try 5 writing sections doing it this way and it’ll come to you easily. This method of course also shows you parallelism. </p>
<p>I think the most important part about recognizing “no error” answers is being confident enough to say “ok i’ve checked this question, there are no errors… the answer is no errors and i will fill out the E bubble without any regrets.” by being meticulous and going through each word and underlining and crossing choices out that are clearly wrong, you’ll be confident and choose E without wasting too much time. hope this helps.</p>
<p>TIP: When you think you can’t find the error, look closely to subjects (often times our eyes will ignore the extra that makes the subject plural or the s that makes a verb agree with a singular subject when it’s in fact plural)</p>
<p>Ok, that’s what I was thinking. So the problem lies not with awkward phrasing or anything, but an ambiguous pronoun?</p>