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12 Practice <strong>Tests</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>SAT</strong><br />

664 Practice Test Seven Answers and Explanations<br />

3. D<br />

Difficulty: High<br />

Pronouns are frequently used without antecedents in<br />

everyday speech, but such usage will be incorrect on <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>SAT</strong>. In this sentence, <strong>the</strong> pronoun it has no antecedent.<br />

Choice (D) eliminates <strong>the</strong> ambiguous pronoun without<br />

introducing any additional errors. Choice (B) has no<br />

independent clause, so it is a sentence fragment. Choice<br />

(C) is incorrect grammatical structure. Choice (E) does not<br />

address <strong>the</strong> error.<br />

4. E<br />

Difficulty: High<br />

Eliminate redundant words to make sentences more<br />

concise. As written, this sentence is unnecessarily wordy,<br />

and musical statement is unnecessary, since musical <strong>for</strong>m<br />

is already used in <strong>the</strong> first part of <strong>the</strong> sentence, and affect<br />

and change mean essentially <strong>the</strong> same thing. Choice (E)<br />

eliminates <strong>the</strong> redundant words and does not introduce<br />

additional errors. None of <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r answer choices address<br />

<strong>the</strong> redundancies; additionally, (B) fails to correctly complete<br />

<strong>the</strong> comparative structure nei<strong>the</strong>r . .. nor. Choices (C) and<br />

(D) are wordy and awkward.<br />

5. D<br />

Difficulty: Low<br />

As written, this is a sentence fragment. Choices (D) and<br />

(E) add a verb, but (E) introduces an error in subject-verb<br />

agreement. The plural subject sections doesn't agree with <strong>the</strong><br />

singular verb is.<br />

6. c<br />

Difficulty: Medium<br />

The clause <strong>the</strong> redemption is in his returning is idiomatically<br />

incorrect and awkward. Moreover, <strong>the</strong> lawyer argued two<br />

things: that her client had committed <strong>the</strong> crime and that <strong>the</strong><br />

client had redeemed himself by returning <strong>the</strong> items. These<br />

two clauses must be parallel in <strong>for</strong>m. The first uses <strong>the</strong><br />

past perfect had . .. committed and <strong>the</strong> subject her client.<br />

The underlined portion should do <strong>the</strong> same. Choice (C)<br />

uses her client and <strong>the</strong> past perfect had redeemed. Also,<br />

returning <strong>the</strong> stolen items is parallel to expressing great<br />

remorse, so (C) works.<br />

7. E<br />

Difficulty: Medium<br />

The original sentence has a modification error. Kevin<br />

Garnett led <strong>the</strong> league in combined scoring and<br />

rebounding statistics . .. but <strong>the</strong> subject directly following<br />

<strong>the</strong> introductory phrase is <strong>the</strong> NBA, which indicates that <strong>the</strong><br />

NBA led <strong>the</strong> league. Only (E) correctly places Kevin Garnett<br />

directly after <strong>the</strong> introductory phrase. Choices (B) and (C)<br />

remove <strong>the</strong> introductory phrase altoge<strong>the</strong>r, which fixes<br />

<strong>the</strong> modification problem, but <strong>the</strong> choices unnecessarily<br />

eliminate <strong>the</strong> fact that Garnett's combined scoring and<br />

rebounding statistics led <strong>the</strong> league.<br />

8. c<br />

Difficulty: Medium<br />

The sentence is a run-on with a comma splice joining<br />

two independent clauses. Choice (C) correctly combines<br />

two independent clauses with a semicolon. Choice (B)<br />

uses a semicolon but illogically switches to <strong>the</strong> past perfect<br />

tense. Choice (D) illogically uses would join instead of <strong>the</strong><br />

simple past tense. Choice (E) creates a sentence fragment<br />

by joining an independent and dependent clause with a<br />

semicolon.<br />

9. c<br />

Difficulty: Medium<br />

This sentence uses <strong>the</strong> conjunction and instead of<br />

appropriately indicating contrast. Choice (C) shows <strong>the</strong><br />

correct sequence of events; he became more accurate after<br />

his lack of aim had been exasperating, with <strong>the</strong> appropriate<br />

contrast indicated by but. Choices (B) and (E) lose <strong>the</strong><br />

logical sequence of tenses. Choice (D) is a run-on, requiring<br />

a semicolon be<strong>for</strong>e however.<br />

10. D<br />

Difficulty: Medium<br />

Choice (D) correctly combines <strong>the</strong> two independent clauses<br />

with a semicolon. Choices (B) and (E) use contrasting<br />

transition words that are illogical in context. Choice (C)<br />

merely adds and, which does not logically connect <strong>the</strong><br />

two ideas.

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