SAT Grammar: Common

SAT Grammar: Common

While I still viewed anthropology as an intellectual discipline, ____ I thought

that if someone wanted to "help" people, that individual should become a

social worker.




a. yet


b. and


c. so


d. DELETE the underlined portion.—ANSWER--d. DELETE the underlined

portion.




Coordinating conjunctions like "yet," "and," or "so" are necessary after a

comma to connect two complete sentences.

, However, the "while" at the beginning of the sentence clarifies that

everything before the underline is just there to explain when the rest of the

sentence occurred, so the first half is not a complete sentence. Therefore,

no conjunction is necessary.


One can only have the audacity of hope and believe that some can be led

to the habit of unmasking ideological ____ those that surround us on all

sides in the U.S. today.




a. aberrations such as


b. aberrations: such as


c. aberrations, such as


d. aberrations such as:—ANSWER--a. aberrations such as




When a sentence's meaning is already clear, punctuation makes it more

awkward and confusing.




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