《SAT语法攻略》是美国名校入学考试指导系列之一。该书有别于常规语法书，侧重于分析SAT考试中常考的语法点；通过收集SAT语法真题中的考核点，透彻分析考试要点。《SAT语法攻略》在编写过程中力求贴近考点，章末配有考试技巧提示，让学生在短时间内抓住重点，迅速提高SAT写作部分的语法成绩。《SAT语法攻略》所有题目均模拟真题精心设计，是国内SAT教材中为数不多的以语法应试为目的的参考资料。练习题均配备详细解释，不仅方便教师授课，而且还是学生自学的语法宝典。

Part I Guide to the SAT Multiple-choice Section

Chapter I Introduction to SAT Grammar 3

I. Basic Information 4

II. Tips for Answering Multiple-choice Questions 6

III. Educated Guessing 7

IV. Planning Your Time 7

V. Practice Makes Perfect 8

Chapter II Analysis of the Question Types 9

I. Identifying Sentence Errors 9

Approaches to Identifying Sentence Errors 10

Trim the Fat 11

Don't Give Up 12

II. Improving Sentences 12

III. Improving Paragraphs 16

Essay First 17

Questions First 17

Answers and Explanations 20

IV. Test Yourself 20

Part A: Improving Sentences 20

Part B: Identifying Sentence Errors 28

Part C: Improving Paragraphs 31

V. Answers and Explanations 34

Part A: Improving Sentences 34

Part B: Identifying Errors 37

Part C: Improving Paragraphs 38

Part II Grammar Concepts Tested on SAT

Chapter III Verbs 43

I. Basic Elements of a Verb 43

II. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 48

III. Subjunctive Mood in the Noun Clause 49

IV. Exercise 50

Warm-up Practice 50

Identifying Sentence Errors 52

Improving Sentences 54

V. Answers 57

Warm-up Practice 57

Identifying Sentence Errors 58

Improving Sentences 59

Chapter IV Subject-Verb Agreement 63

I. What are Subjects and Verbs 63

II. What is Subject-verb Agreement 64

III. Exercise 68

Warm-up Practice 68

Identifying Sentence Errors 70

Improving Sentences 72

IV. Answers and Explanations 75

Warm-up Practice 75

Identifying Sentence Errors 75

Improving Sentences 76

Chapter V Pronouns 79

I. The Usage of Pronoun 79

Pronoun in the Wrong Number 79

Pronoun in the Wrong Case 80

Vague or Ambiguous Pronoun 81

Pronoun in Comparison 81

Pronoun Used for Emphasis 82

Pronoun before a Gerund 82

Pronoun Inconsistency 82

II. Exercise 83

Warm-up Practice 83

Identifying Sentence Errors 84

Improving Sentences 86

III. Answers and Explanations 89

Warm-up Practice 89

Identifying Sentence Errors 89

Improving sentences 90

Chapter VI Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 93

I. What is a Modifier 93

II. What is a Participial Phrase 94

III. Other Frequently Tested Modifiers 95

IV. Exercise 96

Warm-up Practice 96

Identifying Sentence Errors 97

Improving Sentences 98

V. Answers and Explanations 101

Warm-up Practice 101

Identifying Sentence Errors 102

Improving Sentences 103

Chapter VII Comparison and Parallelism 105

I. Comparison 105

Logical Comparisons 105

Grammatical Comparisons 106

II. Parallelism 109

Parallelism in Listing 109

Parallelism with Connective Words 110

III. Exercise 110

Warm-up Practice 110

Identifying Sentence Errors 111

Improving Sentences 112

IV. Answers and Explanations 115

Warm-up Practice 115

Identifying Sentence Errors 116

Improving Sentences 117

Chapter VIII Subordination and Coordination 119

I. Subordination 119

II. Coordination 120

III. Comma and Semicolon 121

Correct Usage of the Comma (,) 121

Correct Usage of the Semicolon (;) 121

IV. Exercise 122

Warm-up Practice 122

Identifying Sentence Errors 123

Improving Sentences 124

V. Answers and Explanations 127

Warm-up Practice 127

Identifying Sentence Errors 128

Improving Sentences 129

Chapter IX Incomplete Sentence and Run-on Sentence 131

I. Incomplete Sentence 131

Sentence Fragment 132

One More Way to Find a Sentence Fragment 133

II. Run-on Sentence 135

III. Exercise 137

Identifying Sentence Errors 137

Improving Sentences 139

IV. Answers and Explanations 142

Identifying Sentence Errors 142

Improving Sentences 143

Chapter X Other Minor Error Types 145

I. Preposition 145

II. Adjectives and Adverbs 149

III. Diction 150

IV. Idiomatic Expressions 151

V. Exercise 151

Warm-up Practice 151

Identifying Sentence Errors 152

VI. Answers and Explanations 154

Warm-up Practice 154

Identifying Sentence Errors 155

Chapter XI Improving Paragraphs 157

I. Questions Types 157

II. How to Revise the Sentence in a Context 159

Comma and Conjunction 159

Use the Answers 160

Excessive Wordiness 161

III. Exercise 162

IV. Answers and Explanations 166

Chapter XII Practice Test on Grammar 169

I. Exercise 169

Improving Sentences 169

Identifying Sentence Errors 172

Improving Paragraphs 174

II. Answers and Explanations 176

Improving Sentences 176

Identifying Sentence Errors 179

Improving Paragraphs 181

Reference 183