Strategy
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On approaching English
passages:
1. Try skimming an English passage before starting work on the
questions.
2. On questions that ask you to judge the passage, lean toward
selecting a choice that approves of it.
3. Choose answers that match the level of formality of the entire
passage.
4. The best way to write something is the shortest correct way of
writing it.
5. If you speak a "nonstandard" dialect, be extra careful with
questions that focus on idioms.
6. Watch for subject-verb and noun-pronoun agreement.
7. Make sure parenthetical phrases begin and end with the same
punctuation mark.
8. Be on the lookout for both sentence fragments and run-on
sentences.
9. Make sure that nouns and pronouns are modified by adjectives,
and that verbs and adjectives are modified by adverbs.
10. Learn the difference between it's and its.
