First, the principle of simplicity.
Simplicity principle has been widely used in SAT. After the reform, SAT requires candidates to find out whether Chu's article is concise and avoid unnecessary verbiage. If you can express it concisely, you don't have to be wordy. Specifically:
1. If you can express it clearly in one sentence, you don't need one sentence.
Use simple clauses to express complex content, use because clauses to express reasons, not nouns+do to express reasons.
I love Mary because she has given me a lot of help. Because she helped me a lot. I love Mary because she has helped me a lot.
Many attributive clauses can be expressed by an adjective; For example, Mary is a beautiful girl, but not Mary is a very beautiful girl.
Adverbial clauses indicating time and concession should be omitted as far as possible. These are the two most common grammatical structures in the SAT grammar test, and candidates must pay attention to them.
Second, the principle of good faith.
One principle should be remembered in the SAT grammar test: a simple sentence has only one verb, a set of subject-predicate structures and the sentence trunk. This principle is used to judge whether a paragraph is a complete sentence.
When solving practical problems, we only need to judge whether there are predicate verbs in the test questions. In the SAT grammar test, complex sentences also have only one subject-predicate structure, but many modifiers are connected by different relative words.
For SAT complex sentences, what we need to do is to eliminate interference information and grasp the main part of the sentence. The key of SAT grammar lies in whether it can accurately grasp the main and core information of sentences in the shortest time.
Third, macro understanding.
The macro-comprehension ability based on context is very important, which puts high demands on the overall thinking ability of candidates. Besides the basic test points such as fixed collocation, tense, punctuation, semantic repetition and parallel structure, the influence of context on the answer must also be considered.
For example, in the SAT test, there are two semantically repeated words, one underlined and the other not. In fact, this reminds us once again that when correcting mistakes, we should not focus all our attention on the underlined part, but should proceed from the overall situation.
Therefore, we should learn to read the main idea and paragraph structure quickly, and make sure to finish it within 1.5 minutes, so that we can easily deal with the topics related to the article in Development and Organization.
The above are the methods to improve sat grammar for everyone, and I hope it will be helpful for you to review and prepare for the exam.