SAT® · Reading and Writing: Form, Structure, and Sense — Modifiers, Genitives, and Plurals
Modifier Placement in the Answer Choices
Watch it explained
- How it worksHow do you read the opening phrase first and then hunt for the one choice whose subject it can describe?
- Common mistakeWhy doesn't the shortest or smoothest-sounding choice tend to be the one that repairs the modifier?
- Worked exampleWalk me through picking the subject that 'Based on fossil evidence from three continents' may describe.
- Going furtherWhat happens when two of the four choices each supply a noun the opening phrase could plausibly describe?
Check yourself
Your turnmedium1 of 3
Based on fossil evidence gathered from 4 continents over 28 years, ___
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?End of topic.