SAT® · Reading and Writing: Standard English Conventions — Strategy and Scope
How a Conventions Question Is Built
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- How it worksHow does a one-or-two-sentence stem plus four choices encode exactly one grammar decision?
- How it worksHow does a stem asking which choice conforms to the conventions of Standard English narrow the job?
- Worked exampleWalk me through solving a blank whose four choices are a comma, a colon, a semicolon, and nothing.
- Common mistakeWhy isn't meaning ever the deciding factor on a conventions item the way it is on a transitions item?
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A Standard English Conventions item shows this text: 'The survey of 30 coastal towns ___ that erosion has accelerated since 2010.' The four choices are 'finds', 'find', 'have found', and 'are finding'. What is the item testing?End of topic.