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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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Modifier placement | Quick guide
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- "The stadium where the football team plays was renovated in 2015."
Can we also write the sentence in this form:
"The stadium, where the football team plays, was renovated in 2015." ?(8 votes)- Both sentences are grammatically correct, but the meaning changes really slightly between the two. I don't think you'll get asked to do anything like this on the SAT, but I'm not completely sure.
In the first sentence, you're identifying the stadium as the one "where the football team plays". In the second, when you put commas around that phrase, you make it nonessential to the logic flow of the sentence. This means that the stadium cannot be identified by the football team, and instead "where the football team plays" is just a descriptor of the sentence. In the first sentence, you might be talking about multiple stadiums and their renovations. In the second sentence, there is only the one stadium.
It appears to me like a more nuanced version of that vs. which, which the SAT does test.(16 votes)
- How are we supposed to identify if a question is related to modifier placements? could someone please tell what are the markers of modifier placements?(5 votes)
- When you're supposed to revise a sentence in the Writing Section , or replace an underlined word with another noun or even an adjective.(6 votes)
- Astounded, the sunken ship they had encountered was inspected closely by the divers as they swam closer.(3 votes)
- This sentence is grammatically off because of the modifier "astounded". You would expect this to modify a person or animal, but instead it is placed next to the ship in the sentence. To fix this, we would have to place astounded close to the divers, because it's supposed to modify them. Here's one way this could be done:
Astounded, as they swam closer, the divers closely inspected the sunken ship they had encountered.(7 votes)
- The SAT Writing and Language Test focuses on placement of the following modifiers(4 votes)
- The book designer had done a great job: the title's intricate lettering stood out from the page:_ due to the stunning bright blue he had chosen.
Choose 1 answer:
NO CHANGE
page—
page
page;(2 votes)- Here, I would just plug each punctuation into the sentence and see if it fits. The colon doesn't really work because the second clause isn't a clarification or anything of the first, and having two colons in one sentence isn't good. On the SAT, the dash serves the same function as the colon with introducing explanatory parts, so it can't be right either. The semicolon connects two independent clauses, but the latter piece of the sentence is not an independent clause so the semicolon cannot work. That leaves us with no punctuation at all.(4 votes)
- What does it mean when it says "if the noun isn't underlined move the modifier"?(1 vote)
- The underlined portion is what the test asks you to edit. This article just says then, that if you see a misplaced modifier error on the test and the question asks you to fix the noun, you can't move the modifier around to fit. You must instead change the nouns to fit the modifier. Conversely, if the modifier is underlined, you have to change it to fit the noun and not the other way around.(4 votes)
- Is 38 out of 52 in the reading aspect a good start for a beginer(2 votes)
- How can I find the math help? I struggle much more with math than English. I remember it for a little while but then after a year of school and I go into the next grade, I forget it. I just need a refresher that's all.
-Jade(1 vote) - what if can't do neither(0 votes)
- How many question words are their(0 votes)