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All verbs must agree with their subject in what

Number

A non-essential clause decribes a what

Noun

Non essential are usually followed by what?

Verbs

2 types of verb questions appear on the sat:

Sub_verb agreement


Verb-tense and form

Sometimes and error might appear _____ the non essential clause

Within

Sometimes you will see subject verb agreement questions based on _____ beggining with _____.

Essential clauses; that

What is a distraction to keep you from hearing the disagreement between the subject and the verb

Unusual syntax

Singular nouns

There is


There was


There has been


Plural nouns

There are


Thee where


There have been

When neither and nor are used with two singular nouns the verb should be what

Singular

Collective nouns=

Singular

A number of

Plural

The number of

Singular

Each

Singualar

(Every) one

Singular

Gerunds when used as subjects

Singular

Verb tense and form errors regularly appear on the sat in specific formats and in what

Highly predictable ways

Date in the past=

Simple past

Any sentence that includes a date or time period In the past and that describes a completed action that contain a verb in the what

Simple past

Would and ____ are switched only with one another

Will

You should not mix past and what in the same sentence

Future

Past tense should not contain the word

Will

Present tense should not contain the word

Would

The word ____ should not generally appear in a clause beggining with ___.

Would; if

Infinitive

To form of the verb

Gerund

Ing form of the verb

To be

Being

Running

To run

Gerunds and what are always switched with one another

Infinitives

A gerund is a ____ that acts as a ____.

Verb; noun

Whrn a verb acts as an adj it is a

Participle

You must place a ____ before the____ in order for a sentence to make sense.

Preposition; gerund

Sometimes both a gerund and an infinitive are acceptable

In such cases neither will be considered an error

In general it is necessary to allow your ear in order to determine whether the gerund or infinitive is correct

There's no rule that governs which one is used

The _____ used after any form of the verb to have

Past participle

The verb tense that is formed by combining have or has + past participle is the

Present perfect

*** when the words ___or___ appear the present perfect is usually required

For; since

The simple past rather than the past participle will always incorrectly follow a form of the verb____

To have

Sentences that contain general truth always use the

Present verb form

Past

Had

Present

Has have

Past perfect=

Had + past participle

Hint

Sometimes these sentences describe two events or actions that occurred in the past

The______ is used to indicate that one of those actions occurred before the other

Past perfect

Thw phrase ______ is usually a tip-off that the Past Perfect is required

By the time

Had

Past perfect

Has

Present perfect

Will have

Future tense

Next to verbs what is the most commonly tested part of speech on the ACP

Pronouns

2 kinds of pronoun questions that appear on the SAT

Pronoun antecedent


Pronoun case

What is used to replace a noun

Pronoun

An____ is simply the word (noun, pronoun, or gerund) to wich a pronoun refers

Antecedent

All pronouns must agree with their

Antecedents

One

3rd person

You

2nd person

One and ____ are frequently switched with one another

You

They cannot be matvhed within a sentence

But must remain consistent throughout

More than any other pronoun ____ is likely to be wrong

It

Hint

Sometimes it is unclear which antecedent a pronoun refers to

Do so

Correct

Do it

Incorrect

Any pronoun that appears in a sentence must have a_____ that is a noun, pronoun, or gerund.

Clear antecedent

If a sentence includes a ____ without an ____ that sentence can not be correct no matter how obvious it's meaning may be

Prniun ;Antecedent