Improving Sentences
Improving Sentences: 25 multiple choice questions that test your ability to improve sentences.
DIRECTIONS:
TIPS:
Improving Sentences questions have eight steps:
Improving Sentences: 25 multiple choice questions that test your ability to improve sentences.
DIRECTIONS:
- Read the entire sentence carefully but quickly and ask yourself whether the underlined portion is correct or whether it needs to be revised.
- Read choices (A) through (E), replacing the underlined part with each answer choice to determine which revision results in a sentence that is clear and precise and meets the requirements of standard written English.
TIPS:
Improving Sentences questions have eight steps:
- Read the sentence and try to hear the problem.
- If you find an error, eliminate A.
- Before you look at the answer choices, figure out how to fix the error.
- Find the correction that most closely matches yours.
- If no correction matches, eliminate answers that repeat the error or contain new errors.
- If you’re still stumped, reach into your bag of tricks (more on those soon).
- Plug your answer back into the sentence to check it.
- If you’re still stumped—cut, guess, and run.