SAT Reading & Writing · Standard English Conventions
Form, Structure, and Sense practice questions
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- Question 24The committee's recommendation was more cautious than ______ made by the previous panel three years earlier. Which choice…
- Question 25The museum's newest exhibit ______ open to the public every day except Monday. Which choice completes the text so that it…
- Question 50The archive contains letters, photographs, and ______ that together document the family's three generations in the city. Which…
- Question 51The board members reviewed the proposal and each gave ______ own assessment before the final vote. Which choice completes the…
- Question 73By next spring, the restoration team ______ every damaged fresco in the chapel, a project that began nearly a decade earlier.…
- Question 74Every student in the class ______ required to submit the project by Friday. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms…
- Question 95The committee, along with its three subcommittees, ______ scheduled to present its final recommendations at next month's board…
- Question 96Frustrated by months of unreliable internet service in their rural neighborhood, ______ Which choice most logically and…
- Question 101By the time investigators finally traced the source of the contamination, the affected water supply ______ several hundred…
- Question 102Each of the finalists submitted a portfolio, but only one demonstrated the originality that the judges felt ______ project truly…
- Question 103Walking quickly through the crowded terminal, the suitcase nearly tripped a passing traveler. Which choice best revises the…
- Question 104Each of the students in the discussion group ______ a chance to reconsider their initial answer before the class moved on. Which…
- Question 105After reviewing the applications for nearly a week, the position was finally offered to the most qualified candidate by the…
- Question 138By the time the exhibition opened, the restoration project ______ nearly three years of the conservator’s working life. Which…
- Question 139The board of directors, despite representing several competing business interests, ______ in complete agreement on the merger…
- Question 140The new printer works faster and ______ than the model it replaced. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the…
- Question 145By the time the new librarian finished cataloging the rare-book collection, previous staff members ______ several volumes to…
- Question 146Neither the original blueprint nor any of the later revisions ______ how the building's foundation would handle the region's…
- Question 147Determined to finish the marathon despite a sprained ankle, ______ Which choice most logically and grammatically completes the…
- Question 148The novel's ending, along with several plot threads left unresolved in the middle chapters, ______ frustrated many longtime…
- Question 180The novelist's prose is often compared to that of her mentor, though her sentences tend to be longer and considerably more…
- Question 181The panel of judges, despite scoring the routines independently and without conferring, ______ remarkably close agreement on…
- Question 182The professor's lecture covered three main topics: the causes of the conflict, its major battles, and ______. Which choice…
- Question 199The report's conclusions were nearly identical to ______ published by the rival laboratory the year before. Which choice…
- Question 200Every one of the manuscript's marginal annotations ______ carefully cross-referenced against the original text before the new…
- Question 201The results of the experiment ______ published in a peer-reviewed journal next spring. Which choice completes the text so that…
- Question 218Whichever intern finishes the data entry first ______ responsible for double-checking the totals before the deadline. Which…
- Question 219The council of elders, despite having no formal legal authority in the modern government, ______ still consulted on major…
- Question 220Trained specifically to identify counterfeit currency, ______ Which choice most logically and grammatically completes the…
- Question 226By the time researchers sequenced the tumor's genome, the cancer ______ resistant to three separate rounds of chemotherapy.…
- Question 227The design team presented two prototypes, but the client found ______ appealing enough to move into production. Which choice…
- Question 228Exhausted from the long flight and eager to see the exhibit before closing time, the museum was where the tourists headed…
- Question 229Each of the museum's donated paintings ______ examined by conservators before being placed on public display. Which choice…
- Question 230Having reviewed decades of fisheries data, the marine biologists concluded that heavy fishing pressure ______ smaller,…
- Question 247When conservators removed the final layer of later paint, they discovered that the original plaster ______ a network of fine…
- Question 248Rarely ______ a proposal received such unanimous support from the committee. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms…
- Question 249Unaware that the bridge had been closed for repairs, ______ Which choice most logically and grammatically completes the sentence?
- Question 250If the museum ______ additional funding next year, it would be able to restore the damaged wing. Which choice completes the text…
- Question 265The curator's approach to restoration was far more conservative than ______ favored by her predecessor, who often replaced…
- Question 266Neither the tenants' association nor the individual landlords ______ willing to compromise on the proposed rent increase. Which…
- Question 267Reluctant to abandon a project that had consumed years of research, ______ Which choice most logically and grammatically…
- Question 268The exhibit's centerpiece is a set of tools whose age and craftsmanship ______ remarkable for the period in which they were…