Wednesday, April 23, 2008

SAT Prep of the Day 6

Word of the Day
HABITUATE -- to make used to something; accustom; frequent
The lions habituated to their new environment after being removed from the wild and placed into the zoo.

Question of the Day
The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E.

Most newer digital cellular phones have
A
entertainment programs on it,
everything from
B
CD
simple dice-throwing games to memory and

logic puzzles. No error

E
The trick in these questions is to not think too hard! Don't over read it and create problems that aren't there... Always start by just reading through the sentence and see if it sounds okay or not. The first thing to do is to look at the different agreements. They always try to get you on those! Check verb-noun agreements, adjective-noun agreements, pronoun-noun agreements!

Here the verb-noun is fine: phones have. Adjective-noun is fine: most newer digital cellular phones. BUT pronoun-noun doesn't work here! Phones have programs on THEM, not IT!!!
So the problem is part C.

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