SAT Writing Sample Questions

Directions:- The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Choose the best answer from among the choices given. In making your selection, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to Grammar, choice of words, sentence correction and punctuation. Your selection should result in most effective sentence.

Question.1 Laura Wilder published her first book and she was sixty-five years old then.

(A) and she was sixty-five years old then.

(B) when she was sixty-five.

(C) at age sixty-five years old.

(D) at the time when she was sixty-five.

(E) upon the reaching of sixty-five years.

Question.2 In researching an individual's life, the biographer should sift through details, attitudes, untruths, and distinct accounts of the identical events.

(A) events told in different ways by different people.

(B) people that tell different accounts of events.

(C) distinct accounts of the identical events.

(D) accounts about events that are different.

(E) different people telling different accounts of the same event.

Question.3 Saying nothing further, the table was cleared by the family in preparation for the evening meal.

(A) Nothing further was said, and the family clears the table.

(B) Saying nothing further, the family cleared the table.

(C) Saying nothing further, the table was cleared by the family.

(D) The family said nothing further, the table was cleared.

(E) By saying nothing further, the family cleared the table.

Question.4 The large alligators, by being trapped and removed, greatly affected the ecosystems of some southeast swamplands.

(A) To trap and remove large alligators

(B) The large alligators, by being trapped and removed,

(C) Having trapped and removed large alligators,

(D) The trapping and removal of large alligators

(E) Large alligators, because of having been trapped and removed,

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