SAT Grammar (Verb Forms, Subject-Modifier Placement) KAHN ACADEM

While many spiders use webs to catch their food, others capture prey using hunting or burrowing techniques. Spiders from the family Ctenizidae, often called trapdoor spiders, ______ their burrows with doors, using their silk for hinges.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• cover

• are covering

• will have covered

• had covered

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.3.1E

Botanists recognize over fifty different species of sunflower, and variance exists even in those species. One species, the silverleaf sunflower, ______ both an early-flowering ecotype that tends to grow in coastal areas and a late-flowering ecotype that grows inland.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• encompassing

• to encompass

• encompasses

• having encompassed

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A

Antarctic pearlwort, a low-growing shrub with characteristic yellow flowers, is one of only two native flowering plants which ______ in Antarctica.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• were occurring

• occur

• are occurring

• will have occurred

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.3.1E

Before the museum closed permanently, it faced financial challenges that ______ a large deficit and declining ticket sale revenues.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• include

• will include

• would include

• included

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.3.1D

The pink plastic lawn flamingo is inventing in 1957 by Don Featherstone.

• NO CHANGE

• was invented

• which will be invented

• having invented

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.3.1D

Amelia Earhart disappeared while she was attempting to traverse the globe in 1937.

• NO CHANGE

• she attempts

• she will attempt

• to attempt

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.3.1D

If the tracks that make up the New York City subway were laid end to end, they will have been stretching from New York to Chicago.

• NO CHANGE

• stretch from

• stretching from

• would stretch from

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1B

Pedicabs, which are becoming increasingly popular in US cities, go by different names all over the world. For example, the Malagasy people of Madagascar are calling the pedicab a "pousse-pousse," while Bangladeshis use the term "rickshaw."

• NO CHANGE

• calling

• call

• are called by

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

The documentary Rize explores the origins and evolution of Krumping and Clowning, two dance forms that would have emerged from South Los Angeles.

• NO CHANGE

• emerged

• will emerge

• is emerging

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.5.1B

Despite being raised in a time and place in which black students were prevented or discouraged from attaining higher education, Percy Julian went on to become a PhD and a successful chemist. His most famous invention were Aero-Foam, a soy protein fire extinguisher used in World War II.

• NO CHANGE

• was

• will be

• being

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.3.1D