Must Know DSAT English Grammer Rules
Hey everyone! As summer continues to roll around, SAT prep begins and we continue to push to achieve the highest score possible. In this post, I am going to list some of the must know rules for the English section of the DSAT. Rule 1: No punctation between a relative pronoun and the relative clause While this does logically make sense, but in some contexts this rule is about harder to discern. In the following example: "In 2011, these two writers joined forces to found CAKE Literary, a book packaging ____ specializes in the creation and promotion of stories told from diverse perspectives for children and young adults." The blank is "company that" and not other options like "company, that" as adding in the comma makes the sentence incorrect. Rule 2: Know when sentences are run-ons or not Some sentences are going to continue on for far too long, so know when the sentence should end. For an example: "American writer Edwidge Danticat, who emigrated from Haiti in 1981, has won acclaim for her powerful short stories, novels, and ____ her lyrical yet unflinching depictions of her native country’s turbulent history, writer Robert Antoni has compared Danticat to Nobel Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison." The blank is "essays. Praising". All of the other options do not stop the run on. These options are "essays, praising", "essays and praising" and "essays praising" Rule 3: Make sure to match the pronoun and verb with the correct plural noun. "In 1930, Japanese American artist Chiura Obata depicted the natural beauty of Yosemite National Park in two memorable woodcuts: Evening at Carl Inn and Lake Basin in the High Sierra. In 2019, ______ exhibited alongside 150 of Obata’s other works in a single-artist show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum." The blank is "they were" "The violins handmade in the seventeeth century by Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari have been celebrated as some of the finest in the world. In close collaboration with musicians, Stradivari introduced changes to the shape of a traditional violin, flattening some of the instrument’s curves and making ______ lighter overall."