Category: Writing and Language
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Daily SAT 8/28/2022 (Writing and Language)
For number 40, we must determine if there is a punctuation change necessary, and if so, which change is needed. We can immediately see that no change is not correct because a colon does not fit here at all, colons are used to provide emphasis or an explanation for something or to introduce a list.…
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Daily SAT 7/30/2022 (Writing and Language)
This question is fairly straightforward. When we look at the answer choices, B and D just don’t even sound right, so it is probably safe to eliminate them. They both create appositives, which are words like this in between two commas, which can be completely removed from a sentence with the commas and the sentence…
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Daily SAT 7/26/2022 (Writing and Language)
For this sentence transition question, we must use our knowledge of punctuation rules to decide which answer choice is correct. We know that semicolons separate two independent clauses, and a comma cannot separate two independent clauses. For those who don’t know, an independent clause is basically a part of a sentence that can be its…
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Daily SAT 7/18/2022 (Writing and Language)
Questions like this one can be very tricky because every answer choice is very similar, but they all mean slightly different things. Lets go through each answer choice and determine why it is correct or incorrect. Answer choice A uses revise, which may sound correct, but in the sentence Killmonger is described as using Wakanda’s…
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Daily SAT 6/24/2022 (Writing and Language)
Context is vital to answering this question. The Beothuk people are described as the indigenous people, not the Norse people that the researchers were investigating. Since these two kinds of people are very different, the underlined portion of the sentence must be used to contrast the two types of people. Since the closing sentence focuses…
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Daily SAT 6/22/2022 (Writing and Language)
The important part of this question is the “point made earlier in the sentence”, which is “a blend of cinematic and world history”. Looking at the answer choices, we can immediately see that C is the correct answer because it is the only choice that incorporates both cinematic history (westerns and samurai films) and world…
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Daily SAT 6/19/2022 (Writing and Language)
All of the answer choices are grammatically correct, what is important is what the question is asking: the idea presented earlier in the sentence. Looking at the sentence, the author states “it is a philosophical debate rendered concrete”. Answer choice A does not describe something philosophical becoming concrete, it actually does the exact opposite, so…
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Daily SAT 6/18/2022 (Writing and Language)
Looking at option B, putting dashes around “of practical approaches” does not make sense because that phrase then becomes what is called an appositive (can be ,…, or -…- or even (…)), which is a small part of a sentence that adds detail to a noun, and most importantly, can be removed without changing the…