Strategy Used: Listening for a mistake
On most Identifying Sentence Error questions, you'll be able
to actually "hear" the mistake—something just won't sound right
to you. Try reading the sentence aloud to truly "hear" the
error—just don't do it on Test Day.
Consider this example:
Artifacts from Sumerian Ur, though (A) less familiar
(B) to the public than (C) many other archaeological
discoveries, is (D) sophisticated in both design and
execution. No error (E)
Listen to the sentence. What sounds wrong?
Artifacts...is, right? Here you have a subject/verb
agreement error. The subject is artifacts—plural—and the
verb is is— singular. The verb should be are,
so that's your error.
Because of the intervening phrases between the subject and the
verb, you may not have heard the error. Get in the habit of
"matching" underlined verbs to their subject nouns, and vice
versa.
Try the strategy out with
these practice questions!
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