SC Flashcards
the argument centers ___
ON (not around)
The directions on the medication recommend that you should take the pills with food and water at bedtime.
recommend that you should = redundant
recommend that = OK
that clauses
don’t treat like which clauses (i.e. John held parties for his kids that featured clowns, …. = OK)
one of those rare companies that have/has
HAVE!
Software X crashes more often than does Software J (correct/incorrect?)
Correct!! more often than Software J would be wrong!)
Mistake X __ Y
Mistake X for Y
the book revealed ______
that
preferred numerically equivalence
“as many as”
Agree
- with another person
agree to or upon something inanimate
When in doubt look for ___
S-V / PARALLELISM! (no really…) / Verb Form
Logic and concise!
Just as
in the same way that
“whether” vs “If”
- whether = alternatives
- if = hypotheticals
rather than
express preference
Due to
caused by
Word Trap
people ARE stupid
politics IS ridic
Quantity Words
- Countable: few, number, many
- Non-countable: less, amount, much
between
AND
so… as to
so ADJ as to VERB
so extreme as to threaten
None / no one
singular
Compare to/with
compare “to” unlike things
compare “with” like things
concerned
for = worried with = related to
Likely
to be
Idiom
same to X as to Y
Greater than / more than
greater than (countable) more than (describing numbers; i.e. more than 100 fish)
Rates
For
That/Those
That = singular / Those = plural
One of the persons who
bake (PLURAL)
Only one of the employees who
puts effort in (SINGULAR)
Deciding
that
Just as…
JUST as gills are to fish, SO lungs are to humans
Forbid ___
to do
Prohibit ___
from
Each
usually singular
So… as to be
so ADJ as to be ADJ
Not X
, but rather Y
Might
past tense
May
present tense “She may arrive this evening”
Them
can’t be used as subject
that
can’t modify people
such that
wrong!! such .. words.. that (PROBABLY WRONG!)
