SAT Standard English Conventions practice questions
Punctuation, agreement, verb form and sentence boundaries: the most learnable points on the test.
37 free questions, each with a full worked solution and an explanation of what each wrong answer means.
Practise this domain adaptively →Easy (6)
- Subject-verb agreement with a compound subject
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - Possessive determiner vs. contraction (its/it's)
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - No punctuation between a subject and its verb
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - Verb tense consistent with a stated past time
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - Pronoun case in a compound subject
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - Plural noun vs. possessive noun
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Easy–Medium (7)
- Subject-verb agreement
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? The collection of rare stam… - Possessive vs. contraction
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? The company announced that … - Comma after an introductory clause
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? After the storm finally pas… - Agreement with 'there' as subject
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? There ____ several convinci… - Apostrophes: possessive vs. plural
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? Over the past decade, the _… - Punctuating a nonrestrictive appositive (supplementary element)
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - Plural vs. possessive nouns (singular possessive)
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Medium (10)
- Punctuation: joining independent clauses
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? Maya trained for months ___… - Plural possessive
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? The three ____ unanimous de… - Joining clauses with a coordinating conjunction
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? The first experiment failed… - Relative pronouns
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? Marie Curie, ____ won Nobel… - Parallel structure
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? On weekends, Priya enjoys h… - Subject-verb agreement with intervening phrase
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? The list of approved suppli… - Punctuation: colon introducing a list
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? The recipe calls for three … - Pronoun-antecedent agreement
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? Each of the researchers sub… - Punctuation: nonrestrictive appositive
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? The novel's narrator, ____ … - Verb tense consistency
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? Whenever the river floods, …
Hard (7)
- Modifier placement
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? ____, the ancient manuscrip… - Verb tense: past perfect
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? By the time the train final… - Sentence boundaries: correcting a comma splice
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? The bridge was closed for r… - Parallel structure with correlative conjunctions
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? The grant will fund the pro… - Punctuation: unnecessary comma before restrictive clause
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? Students ____ complete the … - Modifier placement: dangling participle
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? Having studied the migratio… - Sentence boundaries: correcting a fragment
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? ____ the telescope captured…
Very hard (7)
- Verb form: subjunctive mood
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? The committee recommended t… - Subject-verb agreement in relative clauses ('one of the ... that')
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - Punctuating a nonrestrictive clause that interrupts subject and verb
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - Relative pronoun case and choice with an intervening clause
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - Finite verb forms and tense consistency in a series of clauses
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - Punctuating a complex series (semicolons between items containing internal commas)
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? - Sentence boundaries: distinguishing an absolute (verbless) phrase from an independent clause
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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