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"Careless Error" might as well read "error I don't CARE to investigate."

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What I’m about to explain in this blog post will allow you to answer certain grammar questions in 5 seconds. I want to present 1 idea in this post and give you 2 applications for it. Minority Rule: This is the idea that if 3 of the answer choices all fit a certain pattern and one does not, the one that doesn’t is almost always correct. This is not my original finding- it is in countless SAT courses and books, and is an important thing to understand and apply. Now, 2 very comm

Dangling Modifier Questions are the grammar section's toughest problems for most students. College Board refers to grammar questions as “Standard English Conventions”, and they make up 5-7 of the 27 questions in each module (usually starting at question 15 or 16 and going until 20-22). These are the questions that ask: “Which choice completes the text so that is conforms to the conventions of Standard English” I cover a lot of the content needed to understand these questions

Here are the rules the SAT uses for punctuation. I accompany each rule with a simple example for clarity. All of the examples contain strawberries, which are my 5th favorite fruit. Colon: Independent clause before, related thought after. (She had only one goal: to eat as many strawberries as possible.) Period: Independent clause before, independent clause after. (I like strawberries. I also like pie). Semicolon: Semicolon series (a sentence with a comma list, but each item in