SAT语法攻略

　　《SAT语法攻略》是美国名校入学考试指导系列之一。该书有别于常规语法书，侧重于分析SAT考试中常考的语法点；通过收集SAT语法真题中的考核点，透彻分析考试要点。《SAT语法攻略》在编写过程中力求贴近考点，章末配有考试技巧提示，让学生在短时间内抓住重点，迅速提高SAT写作部分的语法成绩。《SAT语法攻略》所有题目均模拟真题精心设计，是国内SAT教材中为数不多的以语法应试为目的的参考资料。练习题均配备详细解释，不仅方便教师授课，而且还是学生自学的语法宝典。

　　禤映峰（Ally Y.F. Xuan）悉尼大学教育学硕士，SAT英文教学专家。曾于国内知名外国语学院任教十年，并有多年加拿大外语培训经验。在国内核心刊物发表多篇学术论文，并参与编写《法律英语核心教材》。现为常春藤100教育全职专业SAT英文教师，其生动活泼的教学方式深受国内外学生的喜爱。

Part I  Guide to the SAT Multiple-choice Section
Chapter I  Introduction to SAT Grammar 3
I. Basic Information 4
II. Tips for Answering Multiple-choice Questions 6
III. Educated Guessing 7
IV. Planning Your Time 7
V. Practice Makes Perfect 8Chapter II  Analysis of the Question Types 10
I. Identifying Sentence Errors 10
Approaches to Identifying Sentence Errors 11
Trim the Fat 12
Don’t Give Up 13
II. Improving Sentences 13
III. Improving Paragraphs 17
Essay First 17
Questions First 18
Answers and Explanations 20
IV. Test Yourself 21
Part A: Improving Sentences 21
Part B: Identifying Sentence Errors 28
Part C: Improving Paragraphs 31
Answers and Explanations 35
Part A: Improving Sentences 35
Part B: Identifying Errors 37
Part C: Improving Paragraphs 39Part II  Grammar concepts tested on SAT
Chapter III  Verbs 44
Basic elements of a verb 44
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 49
Subjunctive mood in the noun clause 50
Exercise 51
1. Warm-up practice 51
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 52
3. Improving Sentences 55
Answers 58
1. Warm-up practice 58
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 59
3. Improving Sentences 60
Chapter IV  Subject-Verb Agreement 62
I. What are subjects and verbs? 62
II. What is subject-verb agreement? 62
Exercise 67
1. Warm-up 67
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 69
3. Improving Sentences 71
Answers and Explanations 74
1. Warm-up 74
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 74
3. Improving Sentences 75Chapter V  Pronouns 76
Pronoun in the Wrong Number 76
Pronoun in the Wrong Case 77
Vague or Ambiguous Pronoun 78
Pronoun in Comparison 79
Pronoun used for Emphasis 79
Pronoun before a Gerund 79
Pronoun Inconsistency 79
Exercise 80
1. Warm-up 80
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 81
3. Improving Sentences 83
Answers and Explanations 86
1. Warm-up Practice 86
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 86
3. Improving sentences 87Chapter VI  Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 89
What is a modifier? 89
What is a participial phrase? 90
Other frequently tested modifiers 91
Exercise 92
1. Warm-up Practice 92
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 93
3. Improving Sentences 94
Answers and Explanations 98
1. Warm-up Practice 98
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 99
3. Improving Sentences 99Chapter VII  Comparison and Parallelism 101
Comparison 101
Logical Comparisons 101
2. Grammatical Comparisons 103
Parallelism 105
1. Parallelism in Listing 105
2. Parallelism with Connective Words 106
Exercise 106
1. Warm-up Practice 106
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 107
3. Improving Sentences 108
Answers and Explanations 111
1. Warm-up Practice 111
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 112
3. Improving Sentences 113Chapter VIII  Subordination and Coordination 114
Subordination 114
Coordination 115
Comma and Semicolon 116
1. Correct Usage of the Comma (,) 116
2. Correct Usage of the Semicolon (;) 116
Exercise 117
1. Warm-up Practice 117
2．Identifying Sentence Errors 118
3. Improving Sentences 119
Answers and Explanations 122
1. Warm-up Practice 122
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 123
3. Improving Sentences: 124
Chapter IX  Incomplete Sentence and Run-on Sentence 126
Incomplete Sentence 126
Sentence Fragment 127
One more way to find a sentence fragment 128
Run-on Sentence 130
Exercise 132
1. Identifying Sentence Errors 132
2. Improving Sentences 134
Answers and Explanations 137
1. Identifying Sentence Errors 137
2. Improving Sentences 138Chapter X  Other Minor Error Types 140
Preposition 140
Adjectives and Adverbs 144
Diction 144
Idiomatic Expressions 145
Exercise 146
1. Warm-up Practice 146
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 146
Answers and Explanations 149
1. Warm-up Practice 149
2. Identifying Sentence Errors 149Chapter XI  Improving Paragraphs 151
Questions Types 151
How to revise the sentence in a context 153
A) Comma and conjunction 153
B) Use the answers 154
C) Excessive Wordiness 155
Exercise 156
Answers and Explanations 160Chapter XII  Practice Test on Grammar 162
Improving Sentences 162
Identifying Sentence Errors 165
Improving Paragraphs 167
Answers and Explanations 170
I. Improving Sentences 170
II. Identifying Sentence Errors 172
III. Improving Paragraphs 175
Reference 176