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SAT
Unit 11: Lesson 3
Writing: Grammar- Writing: Setting Up Ideas — Video Lesson
- Setting up ideas | Quick guide
- Writing: Strong Support — Video lesson
- Strong support | Quick guide
- Writing: Relevant Information — Video lesson
- Relevant information | Quick guide
- Writing: Sequencing sentences — Video lesson
- Sequencing sentences | Quick guide
- Writing: Transition Words — Video lesson
- Transition words and phrases | Quick guide
- Writing: Transition Sentences — Video Lesson
- Transition sentences | Quick guide
- Writing: Introductions — Video lesson
- Writing: Conclusions — Video lesson
- Introductions and conclusions | Quick guide
- Writing: Interpreting Graphs and Data — Video lesson
- Interpreting graphs and data | Quick guide
- Writing: Precision — Video Lesson
- Precise word choice | Quick guide
- Writing: Concision — Video lesson
- Concision | Quick guide
- Writing: Formal and Informal Language — Video Lesson
- Writing: Formal vs. casual language — Example
- Formal vs. casual language | Quick guide
- Writing: Syntax — Example
- Writing: Sentence Fragments — Video Lesson
- Writing: Sentence Boundaries — Example 1
- Writing: Sentence boundaries — Example 2
- Sentence fragments | Quick guide
- Writing: Subordination and coordination — Example
- Writing: Combining Sentences — Video Lesson
- Linking clauses | Quick guide
- Writing: Parallel Structure — Video lesson
- Writing: Parallel structure — Example
- Parallel structure | Quick guide
- Writing: Modifier Placement — Video Lesson
- Writing: Modifier placement — Example
- Modifier placement | Quick guide
- Writing: Verb Tense and Mood — Video Lesson
- Writing: Shift in verb tense and mood — Example
- Verb tense and mood | Quick guide
- Writing: Pronoun Clarity — Video Lesson
- Writing: Pronoun clarity — Example
- Pronoun clarity | Quick guide
- Writing: Pronoun Agreement — Video Lesson
- Writing: Pronoun-antecedent agreement — Example
- Pronoun-antecedent agreement | Quick guide
- Writing: Possessive determiners — Example 1
- Writing: Possessive determiners — Example 2
- Writing: It’s/Its Confusion — Video Lesson
- Confusion with "its" and "their" | Quick guide
- Writing: Subject-Verb Agreement — Video Lesson
- Writing: Subject-verb agreement — Example
- Subject-verb agreement | Quick guide
- Writing: Noun Agreement — Video Lesson
- Writing: Noun agreement — Basic example
- Noun agreement | Quick guide
- Writing: Frequently Confused Words — Video Lesson
- Writing: Frequently confused words — Example
- Frequently confused words | Quick guide
- Writing: Conventional Expressions — Video Lesson
- Writing: Conventional expression — Example
- Conventional expressions | Quick guide
- Writing: Logical Comparison — Video Lesson
- Writing: Logical comparison — Example
- Logical comparison | Quick guide
- Writing: End-of-sentence punctuation — Example 1
- Writing: End-of-sentence punctuation — Example 2
- Writing: Commas — Video Lesson
- Commas | Quick guide
- Writing: Semicolons — Video Lesson
- Semicolons | Quick guide
- Writing: Colons — Video lesson
- Colons | Quick guide
- Writing: Possessive Pronouns — Example
- Writing: Possessive Nouns — Video Lesson
- Making nouns possessive | Quick guide
- Writing: Items in a series — Example
- Writing: Punctuating Lists — Video Lesson
- Lists and punctuation | Quick guide
- Writing: Nonrestrictive and parenthetical elements — Example
- Writing: Nonessential Elements — Video Lesson
- Nonessential elements | Quick guide
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- There is a typo, it says "dependent clauses" two times.(19 votes)
- please i'm a Nigerian preparing for this exam and the english has not really been easy for me cause we use British english.Can you please explain all the punctuations used in SAT and their point of application in different sentence.THANK YOU. i'm lucy by the way(3 votes)
- This entire section describes SAT grammar questions. If you need help, say the sentence with the pauses, if it sounds odd, don't use it.(2 votes)
- "At,why did the minions kidnap Ms Macomber? If minions were indestructible, why would they wait at such a specific time?" 11:49(2 votes)
- Does the name of a certain object or person count as necessary or unnecessary information?(1 vote)
- It nearly always should. Any time you add new information to the subject that you didn't have before, it is necessary information that you can't remove without changing the meaning of the sentence. Unnecessary information on the SAT happens only when you describe something in a way that means nearly the exact same thing as something you already used to describe it, such as in: "The quick and speedy dog chased Usnavi down the street."(3 votes)
- Can I do typing on Khan Academy?(1 vote)
- How do you use the word 'namely' with commas?(1 vote)
- Why isn't the use of linking independent clauses with "a comma + a relative pronoun" mentioned here?(1 vote)
- You don’t really link independent clauses with a comma and relative pronoun. You can link them with a comma and coordinating conjunction or semicolon. You can, however, link a dependent and independent clause with a relative pronoun, and that construction sometimes needs a comma as well.(1 vote)
- How do you use the word 'namely' with commas?(1 vote)
- What counts as an "essential" element?(1 vote)
- The elements of the sentences which are central to it's idea or claim(1 vote)
- Before a conjunction do we use a comma?(1 vote)