SAT W&L: Question Types Review

When a child feels safe at home, he may communicate with ease. But put him in a stressful situation like a classroom, and suddenly his ability to articulate his thoughts is gone. Subsequently, when working with a patient, a speech pathologist must first try to make him feel as comfortable as possible.

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• Consequently,

• By contrast,

• Meanwhile,

In early human existence, time was strictly limited by the natural pattern of day and night. Once the art of fire-making was established, humans were able to stay active during the night. The progression from fire to more developed sources of artificial light was was slow, with little change until the advent of gas illumination in the early 1800s. Furthermore, the biggest change in night activity was in the workplace: artificial light enabled mills and factories to employ their workforces for longer hours. Following the increase of nighttime labor was an increase in nighttime entertainment.

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• Foremost,

• Initially,

• Nevertheless,

Check all of the following words and phrases that would be considered Same-Direction Transitions (the ideas on either side of the transition word or phrase agree with one another).

• For example

• Subsequently

• However

• Thus

• Nevertheless

Check all of the following words and phrases that would be considered Opposite-Direction Transitions (the ideas on either side of the transition word or phrase disagree with one another).

• Regardless

• Likewise

• In effect

• Besides

• Nonetheless

When speaking on matters of great international importance, diplomats are particularly attentive to the nuances of their words, which makes the job of translation difficult. However, all languages have their own specific colloquialisms and idiomatic phrases, which can further complicate a translator's task.

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• Furthermore,

• To these ends,

• Therefore,

Disagreement between the Soviet Union and the other three Allied powers over how Germany should be governed was one of the contributing factors of the Cold War.

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• were

• have been

• having been

While endorphins themselves are not well understood, the effect they have are widely recognized.

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• has is

• have is

• has are

The high rate of infection in the most recent Ebola outbreaks are due to both the long incubation period and the types of symptoms that present.

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• is

• were

• have been

For a single household to install enough solar panels to meet the majority of their energy needs would cost $10,000 or more.

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• energy

• its energy needs

• the energy

What type of pronouns are "they", "them", and "their" on the SAT?

• singular

• plural

• either singular or plural

• what's a pronoun?