Standard English Conventions
~26% of the section, and a closed set of rules. The fastest points on the test.
In this folder
BoundariesWhere a sentence ends. More conventions questions turn on this than on anything else.Punctuation inside a sentenceCommas, colons, dashes, apostrophes — each with a job, none decorative.Verbs — agreement, tense, formFind the real subject. Nearly every verb question is decided there.Pronouns, modifiers, and parallelismThree rules that share one idea: every part must point at the right thing.