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Klappentext Score higher on any standardized test with the help of CliffsNotes! For anyone taking any standardized test--such as the SAT! ACT! GMAT! Praxis I! GRE! or others-- CliffsNotes Verbal Review for Standardized Tests is designed to review! refresh! and reintroduce essential grammar and verbal skills. Zusammenfassung Score higher on any standardized test with the help of CliffsNotes! For anyone taking any standardized test—such as the SAT, ACT, GMAT, Praxis I, GRE, or others— CliffsNotes Verbal Review for Standardized Tests is designed to review, refresh, and reintroduce essential grammar and verbal skills. Written by test preparation experts, this clear, concise, and easy-to-use guide gives insight into the types of questions you'll face on the exam, and demonstrates how to avoid the common and costly errors that trap the unprepared. Grammar and usage review English usage and sentence correction Timed essay writing Verbal ability—antonyms, analogies, and sentence completion Reading comprehension Strategies for each question type Practice exercises with hundreds of questions and complete explanations Parts of speech, adjectives and adverbs, linking verbs, and comparatives and superlatives Punctuation—using commas, semi-colons, colons, apostrophes, and dashes Writing narrative, descriptive, analytical, and expository essays With guidance from CliffsNotes, test takers will feel at home in any standardized-test environment! Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 What This Guide Contains 1 How This Book Is Organized 2 How to Use This Guide 2 Types of Questions 4 Range of Difficulty and Scope 4 PART I: GRAMMAR AND USAGE Chapter 1: Grammar and Usage Question Types 7 General Strategies for Sentence/Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence (Vocabulary Skills) Questions 7 Sentence Correction – Type 1 8 Directions 8 Sentence Correction – Type 2 10 Directions 10 Sentence Correction – Type 3 11 Directions 11 Improving Paragraphs 14 Directions 14 Sentence/Text Completion 18 Directions 18 Examples for SAT Questions 18 Examples for GRE Questions 20 Sentence Equivalence 22 Directions 23 Chapter 2: Grammar and Usage Diagnostic Test 25 Answer Sheet 25 Sentence Correction – Type 1 27 Sentence Correction – Type 2 30 Sentence Correction – Type 3 36 Improving Paragraphs 43 Sentence/Text Completion 49 Sentence Equivalence 54 Answer Key for the Grammar and Usage Diagnostic Test 58 Sentence Correction – Type 1 58 Sentence Correction – Type 2 58 Passage I 59 Passage II 59 Passage III 59 Improving Paragraphs 59 Passage I 59 Passage II 59 Sentence/Text Completion 59 Sentence Equivalence 60 Charting and Analyzing Your Test Results 60 Diagnostic Test Answers and Explanations 61 Sentence Correction – Type 1 61 Sentence Correction – Type 2 62 Sentence Correction – Type 3 63 Passage I 63 Passage II 64 Passage III 64 Improving Paragraphs 65 Passage I 65 Passage II 65 Sentence/Text Completion 66 Sentence Equivalence 68 Chapter 3: Grammar and Usage Review 71 Introduction to Grammar and Usage Review 72 Practice Exercises: Charting and Analyzing Your Results 73 Section 1: Basic Parts of Speech 75 Adjectives and Adverbs 76 Linking Verbs 76 Comparatives and Superlatives 78 Practice Exercise 1: Basic Parts of Speech 78 Answers – Practice Exercise 1: Basic Parts of Speech 79 Section 2: Case 80 Subject and Object Errors 80 Pronouns in Apposition 81 Who and Whom 81 Pos...