攻克句子改错题(5)

高等英语考试中攻克句子改错题,最全的语法详解

Have you ever noticed that if you repeat a normal, everyday word like house over and over it starts to seem odd? That’s exactly what the answer choices ofImproving Sentences questions will do to you. If you go right to the answer choices and read through them one by one, by the time you get to C, the answers will all sound equally confusing and wrong. Always approach the

answer choices with a plan, which is what you think sounds correct. If you startlooking at the answer choices with no idea of what you’re looking for, it’s possible all the answers will sound funny and incorrect.

Step 4: Find the correction that most closely matches yours.

Let’s say your correction reads, Jenna was awarded the medal not for her academic success or her skill on the soccer field, but for participating in gym class. Now look at the remaining answer choices and see which one most closelymatches your correction:

(A) but for her being a participant in gym class

(B) the reason being for her participation in gym class

(C) the reason was her participating in gym class

(D) but for her being participation-willing in gym class

(E) but for her participation in gym class

E looks most like the answer you came up with before looking. It’s not exactlylike your prepared answer—it uses her participation instead of for

participating—but it’s very close. Rarely will an answer choice exactly match theone you generated on your own, which is fine. The purpose of preparing your own answer first is not to find an exact match in the answer choices but to havean idea of what is correct before you start reading the choices.

If you find an answer that matches yours, awesome. Onward to the next

question. Sometimes, though, you may not be totally sure whether any of the answer choices matches yours closely enough. In that case, move to step 5. Step 5: If no correction matches, eliminate answers that repeat the error or contain new errors.

You’ll usually see a few answer choices that actually repeat the mistake. Others