SAT Grammar Review

Common Grammatical Errors

100

We understand each other [really well; really good].

What is really well?

200

I think the cake is done. It smells [good; well].

What is good?

300

Every one of you [have; has] earned my respect.

What is has?

400

I am the one [who; whom] tells you where to go.

What is who?

500

To [who; whom] should I write my letter?

What is whom?

Diction

100

Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:

Sam located (alot, a lot) of errors in his essay.

What is a lot?

200

Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:

Everyone seemed (alright, all right) until the argument began.

What is all right?

300

Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:

We decided to take a different (course, coarse) of action.

What is course?

400

Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:

Sherry is a better writer (than, then) Ben is.

What is than?

500

Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:

The new gas prices are (quiet, quite, quit) alarming!

What is quite?

Commas

100

I live at 16110 Wildwood Lane New Lenox Illinois 60451.

I live at 16110 Wildwood Lane, New Lenox, Illinois, 60451.

200

Her birthday is on January 30th 1986.

Her birthday is on January 30th, 1986.

300

Yes I would love to go eat some pizza!

Yes, I would love to go eat some pizza!

400

Handsome funny actors are the best in chick flicks.

Handsome, funny actors are the best in chick flicks.

500

The governor of California who is a lover of movies will be in town next week.

The governor of California, who is a lover of movies, will be in town next week.

Get it Write

100

Correct the punctuation in this sentence or state that it is correct: Lets eat Grandma.

What is Let's eat, Grandma.

200

Correct the punctuation in this sentence or state that it is correct: I wanted to go to the doctor I had a cold

What is I wanted to go to the doctor. I had a cold.

300

Correct the punctuation in this sentence or state that it is correct: My mother said, "Please John, don't eat the daisies".

What is My mother said, "Please, John, don't eat the daisies."

400

Correct the punctuation in this sentence or state that it is correct: When I was young, the Oscar Mayer company had a song that said, "Oh! I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener!"

What is correct.

500

Correct the punctuation in this sentence or state that it is correct: When are you Daisy and Sam going to Chicago.

What is When are you, Daisy[,] and Sam going to Chicago?

Misc.

100

Add a semicolon or a colon: Call me tomorrow I will give you my answer then.

What is Call me tomorrow; I will give you my answer then.

200

The following statement is an example of which sentence error?

Listens to the students' opinions.

What is a sentence fragment.

300

Choose the verb that agrees with the subject in the following sentence:

The letters that need to be mailed (is, are) on the counter.

What is are?

400

Identify the compound subject in the following sentence: 

American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts have lived aboard space stations.

What are astronauts and cosmonauts?

500

Identify the simple predicate in the following sentence:

The family traveled west from their home in Tennessee.

What is traveled?