12.Practice.Tests.for.the.SAT_2015-2016_1128p

12 Practice Tests for the SAT
Practice Test Three Answers and Explanations I
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8. D
Difficulty: Medium
There are a number of ways to correct a run-on sentence,
but only one answer choice will do so without introducing
additional errors.
This sentence is a run-on: two independent clauses joined by a
comma splice. Choice (D) uses because to make the second
clause subordinate. Choice (B) doesn't address the run-on
error. Choice (C) fixes the run-on but is unnecessarily wordy.
Choice (E) leaves the meaning of the final clause incomplete.
9. E
Difficulty: Medium
Some answer choices will correct one of a sentence's errors
but fail to address the others.
This sentence has two problems. Any of the other pastas
implies that the sausage was a pasta, and a semicolon splice is
incorrectly used to combine an independent and a subordinate
clause. Choice (E) corrects these problems by removing the
word other and replacing the semicolon with a comma. Choice
(B) doesn't address either error. Choice (C) still implies that
the sausage was a pasta. Choice (0) is unnecessarily wordy.
10. B
Difficulty: Medium
When a sentence provides a comparison, like items must
be compared.
As written, this sentence compares one author, William
Shakespeare, to the works of another author, Christopher
Marlowe. Choice (B) corrects this by making the comparison
between the works of the two authors. Choice (C) compares
the two authors themselves, which is incorrect in the context
of the rest of the sentence. Choice (D) incorrectly uses the
adverb similarly in place of the correct adjective similar, and
(E) incorrectly uses where, which, on the SAT, will only be
correct when referring to location or direction.
11. c
Difficulty: Medium
You should always be able to point to the noun that a
pronoun replaces. If you can't, you may have the wrong
pronoun or be missing the pronoun antecedent.
They is a pronoun and needs a plural antecedent, but there
isn't one in this sentence. Also, can be introducing is an
inappropriate verb phrase in context. Choice (C) corrects
both errors. Choice (B) is awkward and unnecessarily
wordy. Choice (D) misuses the adjective appropriate
when the adverb appropriately is needed. The compound
verb can introduce . .. and ruins in (E) does not use the
required parallel verb forms.
12. c
Difficulty: Medium
Some pronoun uses that are common in everyday speech
will be incorrect on the SAT.
The second part of this sentence does not clearly refer back
to the subject, the Internet. Choice (C) fixes this problem
by combining the two ideas presented into one cohesive
thought. Choices (B), (0), and (E) don't specify what is
not being used in the developing world. Additionally, (D) is
grammatically incorrect and (E) is unnecessarily wordy.
13. A
Difficulty: Medium
Don't let the length or complexity of a sentence confuse
you. The SAT frequently uses complex sentence structure to
disguise a sentence with no errors.
Although this sentence is long and complex, it contains
no errors. Choice (B) has an incorrect verb form, changing
to prevent to preventing. Choices (C) and (E) are
grammatically incorrect; using ... and to prevent in (D)
violates the rules of parallel structure.
14. E
Difficulty: High
Always be on the lookout for pronouns that don't match the
noun they replace.
The subject of this sentence is the hawks ' nest, not the
hawks themselves. The they that begins the second clause
doesn't agree with the antecedent. Choice (E) fixes this
problem by specifying the hawks as the subject of the
second clause. Choices (B) and (C) change the wording
of the clause, but they still have the incorrect they. Choice
(D) uses the correct pronoun, it, to describe the nest, but is
awkward and says that it was the nest that wrote the books.