Back To the Basics: Verbal Skills Review For the SAT® and ACT®

Make grammar palatable with Back to the Basics! This book helps students review and practice pertinent sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation to be successful on the SAT® and ACT® (in the context of fun stories). Students will practice fixing sentence fragments and run-on sentences, combining sentences, and eliminating redundancies and wordiness. They'll review common grammar rules and infractions, like subject/verb agreement, pronoun antecedent agreement, pronoun case, pronoun clarity, possessives, parallelism, misplaced modifiers, verb tenses, active and passive voice, and frequently confused words. Likewise, they'll review important punctuation like commas, semicolons, colons, and dashes.