SAT® · Reading and Writing: Expression of Ideas
Reading Both Sides of the Blank
Watch it explained
- How it worksHow does the clause after a blank finish the relationship the clause before it only started?
- Common mistakeWhy isn't the sentence immediately before a blank enough to fix the relationship on its own?
- Worked exampleWalk me through a blank where the left side suggests contrast and the full right side turns it into cause.
- Going furtherWhat changes when a blank falls mid-sentence rather than at the opening of a new one?
Check yourself
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The flood grant covered only 10 of the 59 kilometres of levee the district had surveyed. ______, engineers concentrated the season's work on the two reaches where a breach would reach the water-treatment plant. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?End of topic.