Sentence Correction Process

Question 1

What is a possible implication when the underline portion is very long?

Answer 1

Often signal issues with sentence structure, meaning, modifiers, or parallelism

Question 2

What is a possible implication when the underline portion is very short?

Answer 2

Lead you to compare the answers in full before reading the original sentence

Question 3

What is the possible implication for the first underlined word or the word right before the underline?

Answer 3

Give you a clue about one of the issues tested in the sentence (e.g., “has” as the first underlined word —> sentence is likely testing either SV agreement or verb tense)

Question 4

What is the possible implication for the differences among the first word or two of each answer choice?

Answer 4

Always be at least one difference at the beginning of the answers and at the end. Glance at the first word or two of each answer.

(E.g., if the first word switches between “has” and “have”, then you know the sentence is testing singular vs. plural)