Friday 4 July 2008

The Official SAT 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 bold part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E.


Encouraged from(A) her teacher, Vanessa decided to enter(B) the short story contest with(C) a story about her experience growing up in Haiti(D). No error(E)

A (A)
B (B)
C (C)
D (D)
E (E)

Answer is A

Here's Why:

The error in this sentence occurs at (A), where there is an improper idiom. The idiom is “Encouraged by,” not “Encouraged from.”


Question Type: Identifying Sentence Errors

(Writing)

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