502 McGRAW-HILL’S SAT
- Being highly efficient and with plentiful fuel,
physicists consider nuclear fusion to representa
profoundly promising source of energy.
(A) Being highly efficient and with plentiful fuel,
physicists consider nuclear fusion to represent
(B) Being so efficient and its sources so plentiful,
physicists consider nuclear fusion to be
(C) Because nuclear fusion is so efficient and its
fuel so plentiful, physicists consider it to be
(D) Being an efficient and plentiful energy
source, nuclear fusion is what physicists
considered as being
(E) For an energy source that physicists consider
efficient and plentiful, nuclear fusion is - Committed to improving student achievement,
the use of standardized tests in the elementary
grades by the administration has increased
dramatically.
(A) the use of standardized tests in the elementary
grades by the administration has increased
dramatically
(B) standardized tests have been used by the
administration increasingly in the elemen-
tary grades
(C) the administration has used standardized
tests increasingly in the elementary grades
(D) the use of standardized tests by the admin-
istration has increased dramatically in the
elementary grades
(E) the administration have used more
standardized tests in the elementary grades - More and more athletes are turning to yoga as a
means of increasing flexibility, refining balance, to
control their energy, and they can use it to enhance
their awareness of their bodies.
(A) increasing flexibility, refining balance, to
control their energy, and they can use it to
enhance their awareness of their bodies
(B) increasing their flexibility, refining their
balance, controlling their energy, and
enhancing their body awareness
(C) increasing one’s flexibility, balance, energy,
and body awareness
(D) to increase flexibility, to refine balance, to
control energy and the enhancement of the
awareness of one’s body
(E) increasing the flexibility and the balance and
controlling the energy and the awareness of
the body - Many of the rights granted by the Constitution
were not regarded by the founding fathers as
self-evident at all, but ratherthe subject of often
vicious debate.
(A) as self-evident at all, but rather
(B) so much as self-evident at all as they were more
(C) so self-evidently as they were
(D) as self-evident as
(E) as being self-evident, but nevertheless were
SAT Practice 2:
Attacking “Improving Sentences” Questions
Each of the sentences below contains one underlined portion. The portion may contain one or more errors
in grammar, usage, construction, precision, diction (choice of words), or idiom. Some of the sentences are
correct.
Consider the meaning of the original sentence, and choose the answer that best expresses that meaning.
If the original sentence is best, choose (A), because it repeats the original phrasing. Choose the phrasing
that creates the clearest, most precise, and most effective sentence.
EXAMPLE: EXAMPLE ANSWER:
The children couldn’t hardly believe their eyes. (C)
(A) couldn’t hardly believe their eyes
(B) would not hardly believe their eyes
(C) could hardly believe their eyes
(D) couldn’t nearly believe their eyes
(E) couldn’t hardly believe his or her eyes