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SAT写作---改进句子：
Writing > Improving Sentences
Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined
material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence
than any of the alternatives, select choice A.
The first 10,000 United States patents, known to be the X-patents, were burned in a fire in 1836.
Answer Choices
(A) to be
(B) to have been
(C) as
(D) as they were
(E) as being
The correct answer is C
Explanation
Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by using the idiomatic “known as” instead of the awkward and unidiomatic “known to be.”
SAT写作---句子改错：
Writing > Identifying Sentence Errors
The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one
underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E.
a (By the time) Mitzie and b (myself) got to the box office, c (all) of the tickets for the show had already d (been
sold). e (No error)
Answer Choices
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D
(E) E
The correct answer is B
Explanation
The error in this sentence occurs at (B), where there is improper pronoun use. The reflexive pronoun “myself” is used incorrectly. The first-person singular pronoun “I” is needed instead so that the sentence communicates clearly that two people “got to the box office.” (“Mitzie...got to the box office” and “I got to the box office”)
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