How Much Did You Study SatPrep

Name the Parts of Speech

Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Preposition, Conjunction, and Adverb.

What is a complete sentence?

Has a subject and a verb.

Provide 2 examples of complete sentences.

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Give examples of relative pronouns

That, Who, What, Whose, Whom, and Which

What is a Relative Clause?

A sentence that starts with a relative noun

What do Relative Pronouns indicate in a sentence?

The information is non-essential and only adds detail to the sentence.

Define preposition.

Show location, direction, or time.

Define prepositional phrase.

A preposition followed by a noun.

Give 2 examples of a prepositional phrase

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What does a prepositional phrase indicate in a sentence?

Non essential information

Strategies for reading questions/grammar questions

• Annotate the text

• Underline/read the blurb

• If it’s half-right/half-wrong, it’s wrong.

• Read the questions before the text

• Think literally, objectively, and factually.

• For dual passages, read the first passage and answer it’s questions before the next.

What are the three types of transition words?

Continue, Contrast, and Cause-Effect

Define each type of transition word.

• Continue adds onto previous statement.

• Contrast deviates from previous statement.

• Cause-Effect has a cause and effect in a sentence

Provide examples for each category of transition words.

1. Continue

   • also, and, furthermore, moreover, effectively, essentially, in other words, that is, indeed, in fact, similarly, previously, finally, while, etc.

2. Contradictors

   • alternatively, although, though, but, conversely, despite, even so, even though, in any case, meanwhile, nonetheless, otherwise, rather, regardless, still, whereas, yet, while, alternately, alternatively, by contrast, in contrast, on the contrary, on the other hand, etc.

3. Cause and Effect

   • as a result, as such, because, consequently, for, hence, since, so, thus, to these ends, etc.

List four rules of Subject/Verb Agreement

1. Titles, books, movies, and groups are singular subjects.

2. Verbs with (s) on the end of the word are singular subjects

3. Each, neither, and either are singular subjects.

4. Subjects joined by and are plural.

5. Everybody, every, everything, anybody, anyone, and no one is singular subject.

Three ways to separate two complete sentences

Period, Comma + FANBOYS, and semicolon

T or F: Periods and semicolons are gramatically identical.

True!

When can a colon be used?

Before a list and before an explanation.