SAT/ACT Comprehensive Grammar

 What is a full sentence? There are 3 ways to separate 2 full sentences Semicolon ; Period . ,and | ,but |,or |FANBOYS  Subject verb agreement . Singular subject– -singular verb The student tries to succeed. Ignore prepositional phrases when matching subject and verb The carton of boxes weigh 20 twenty pounds. The apple and[…]

Vocabulary for the Redesigned SAT and ACT

Commiserate- feel sympathy Sharecropper- a tenant farmer who gives a share of his crop as rent Domestic- relating to running a home Compromised- settle a dispute by mutual concession Speculating- to form a theory without concrete evidence Cohesive- forming a united whole Imperative- important Impose- force something to be accepted Contemporary- belonging in the present[…]

New SAT/ACT Vocabulary

The new redesigned SAT is similar to the ACT in that there will be no official section for testing vocabulary. Though there aren’t any vocabulary sections where a student needs to define words, there will be 18 “word in context” questions. This means that students will need to know the definition of the word as[…]