Iris的备考日记 曼哈顿语法总结（一）

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Chapter 1  the SC process

• take a first glance
  Very long underlines often signal issues with :
  sentence structure,meaning,modifiers,and parallelism.
  Very short underlines often lead you to compare the answers in full before reading the original sentence.
• Read the sentence for meaning
  The non-underlined portion contains very valuable information!
• Find a starting point
  Read the original sentence and compare the answers
• Eliminate all incorrect choices
• Overall review of SC problems:
  The reason about the right answer and the wrong answers
  What is the trap?
  Chapter 2   grammar&meaning
  • Grammar
    1.Clause:   subject+working verb
    Independent clause:every sentence must have at least one independent clause.
    Dependent clause: cannot stand alone as a sentence.
    A complete sentence requires one independent clause,but more complex sentences will also include something else:another independent clause ,a dependent clause,or other modifiers.
    2.Modifier:provides additional information in a sentence, beyond the core subject and verb.
    nonessential modifier: if you remove it from the sentence,the core of the sentence still makes sense.
    Essential modifier: remove it, the meaning of the sentence is murky.
    3.Sentence core
    The core of a sentence consists of any independent clauses along with some essential modifiers.
    4.Conjunctions
    Coordinating conjunctions:
    can glue two independent clauses together. FANBOYS(for,and, nor, but,or, yet,so)
    Subordinating conjunctions:
    modifiers can be connected to independent clauses by subordinating conjunctions.(although, before, after,if)
    5.Marker:
    a flag or clue that a certain issue is being tested.Make a flash cards !!!
  • Meaning
    Most instances of meaning errors fall into one of three major categories.
    Choose your words: a particular word and its cousin&helping verbs
    Place your words: pay attention to overall word order.
    Match your words: connected words should must always make sense together.
    
    
  • Avoid redundancy
    Words with the same meaning
    Expressions of time
    Transition words