The Princeton Review - Princeton Review PSAT 8_9 Prep-Random House Children's Books (2021)

Just right was how I would describe the weather, so a
decision of soccer-playing was made by me.
In this case, the first sentence is obviously better than the second,
but the second technically doesn’t have any grammatical errors in it.
The first may be better, but the second isn’t exactly wrong.
What made each of these pairs of sentences relatively easy to deal
with, though, was the fact that you could compare the sentences to
one another. In doing so, you noted the differences between those
sentences, and so you picked the better answer accordingly.
Let’s see how this looks in a real PSAT 8/9 situation.
Stormie’s loyal subjects, the other dogs at the dog park,
2 starting to recognize her natural leadership abilities.
2. A) NO CHANGE
B) is starting
C) have started
D) has started
Here’s How to Crack It
First, look at what’s changing in the answer choices. The verb is
underlined, and the answer choices have different verb forms. The
question, then, seems to be asking, Which verb makes the sentence
complete and correct?
Choice (A) makes the sentence incomplete, so it can be eliminated.
Choices (B) and (D) are the wrong number: the subject of the
sentence is subjects, which is plural, so the verb also needs to be
plural. Both is and has are singular, so (B) and (D) can be eliminated.
Only (C) produces a complete sentence and contains a verb that
agrees with the subject of the sentence.