Up Your Score SAT, 2018-2019 Edition The Underground Guide to Outsmarting The Test

vengeful The vindictive Wicked Witch of the West wanted to kill Dorothy to avenge the death of the Wicked Wit ...

yearning; wishful with a hint of sadness As he thought of his lost love, William whistled a wistful melo ...

“Pray tell,” said my uncle, “what is the cause of your vexation?” “I came here with a voracious a ...

A zany, zealous Zyzzyva Zestfully Zigzagged up to the Zenith. ...

CHAPTER 4 The Writing and Language Test Embracing Your Inner Grammaniac ...

KNOW YOUR ENEMY Are you an Alpha Grammarian? Do you like to stand around at parties, correcting people as t ...

But if, like 99.9 percent of the population, you answered no, then we have some work to do. On the Writing ...

could be informative/explanatory, but they might also be written as an argument, or there might be one of ...

As with all passages on the SAT, previous knowledge of the subjects is not assumed, and a close anal ...

ideas, but she just needs some help with the execution. Perhaps the idea of helping out a friend will m ...

SUBJECT Noun or pronoun that “does” the action of the verb in the sentence. For example: He shadowboxed. He ...

verb: were overcome (plural) Combine: “The proctor were overcome.” This should sound wrong to you. ...

Example 3: Let’s do this as an SAT-style question. Each of the streets were painted green. Of the following, ...

it is easier to see why the subject is singular: “Each one was painted green” sounds much better than “Each o ...

Not one of the boys read their SAT study guide. Isolate: subject: one (singular) pronoun: their (plural) T ...

he him she her they them we us who whom The words on the left are subjects. They are used to describe the pers ...

The underlined portion would be be replaced by which of the following options? A) NO CHANGE B) him ate pizza. C ...

Example: The more you study for the SAT, the more one thinks about moving to Mongolia. This sentence start ...

Example 2: While I was painting his feet, he had tickled me. Presumably, he interrupted the feet painting with ...

Adverbs describe verbs or adjectives or other adverbs. They usually, but not always, end in “-ly.” An adve ...