SAT Reading & Writing · Standard English Conventions
Grammar lectures
Every rule here was measured on 2,811 real questions, and the order is the order of how much each one decides. You don't read these — you mark the sentence as Eden talks: the subject, the verb, the part before the blank.
How much each rule decides
100%Each block is what one lecture adds, measured on real questions. Tap a block to open that lecture.
Drills — keep doing these while you learn
Cover the passage and look only at the four choices. 71.4% of questions end with one rule, so you are slow not because you lack rules but because you don't know which one to pull out.
One rule leaves two choices standing. These are the ones where you have to pull out a second rule — 12.2% of the corpus.
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5 lecturesBefore any rule — strip the modifiers, find the core
- F1The parts of a sentenceName what each word is doing — subject, verb, object, complement, modifier, preposition, conjunction.6 practice
- F2Phrase or clauseTell a phrase from a clause by one test — does it have a verb carrying tense, with a subject in front of it?needsF15 practice
- F3The four modifiersName a modifier by what opens it — preposition, participle, relative word, or a comma — and say where it ends.needsF1F25 practice
- F4Modifiers with their signal erasedSpot a modifier even when the word that opens it has been deleted — a dropped that, a reduced relative clause, an interrupter.needsF1F2F35 practice
- F5Strip it to the coreStrip every modifier off a long sentence and read the core that holds it up: the subject, the verb, and whatever the verb needs to finish.needsF1F2F34 practice