Cracking The SAT Premium

Let’s see how this looks in a real SAT situation.

Language    is  a   living   2 document shows   how people  think   and communicate.

2.

A) NO CHANGE

B) document it  shows

C) document that    shows

D) document,    which   showing

Here’s How to to Crack It

First, look at what’s changing in the answer choices. The word “document” remains the same in each, but
what comes after it changes each time. This question, then, seems to be asking, Which words will best link
the two ideas in the sentence?

Choices (A) and (D) make the sentence incomplete, so those should be eliminated. Choice (B) creates a
run-on sentence, so that should also be eliminated. It looks like only (C) appropriately links the ideas
without adding new errors.

Notice that the entire process started with asking, “What’s changing in the answer choices?” With that
question, we figured out what was being tested, and we used POE to do the rest.

Let’s try another.

A   community’s very    soul,   we  might   say,    is  communicated    through  3 their    language.

3.

A) NO CHANGE

B) they’re  language.

C) their    languages.

D) its  language.

Here’s How to Crack It

As always, start with what is changing in the answer choices. It looks like the main change is between the
words “their,” “they’re,” and “its,” with a minor change between the words “language” and “languages.”
As such, this question seems to be asking, What is the appropriate pronoun to use in this context, and
just how many “languages” are we talking about?