高等英语考试中攻克句子改错题,最全的语法详解

Beat Improving Sentences

The SAT Writing section doesn’t mess around. For Identifying Sentence Errorsyou had to identify errors in sentences. Care to guess what you have to do forSentence Improvement questions? That’s right: You have to improve

sentences.

Improving Sentences questions consist of a single sentence with one underlinedword or phrase. Your mission with that underlined portion of the sentence is twofold. First, you have to figure out if there’s a problem with the underlined part. Then, if there is a problem, you have to decide which answer choice fixesthe problem. Sometimes—one-fifth of the time, in fact—no error will exist.

题目说明

The Directions

You know the drill. Learn the directions now so you don’t have to waste time reading them when you take the actual SAT. expression. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard

written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words,

sentence construction, and punctuation.

In each of the following sentences, part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence you will find five ways of

phrasing the underlined part. Choice A repeats the original; the other four are different.

Choose the answer that best expresses the meaning of the original

sentence. If you think the original is better than any of the alternatives,

choose it; otherwise choose one of the others. Your choice should produce the most effective sentence—clear and precise, without awkwardness or

ambiguity.

Notice that once again, the SAT wants you to follow the rules of standard written English when you’re answering these questions. The rules of standard spoken English aren’t accepted here, so a lot of English that’s passable in speech will be considered incorrect on Improving Sentences questions.

Also notice that because answer choice A is always the same as the original sentence, you never need to waste time reading answer choice A. So, unless