Correcting Punctuation Errors: Commas for Dependent Clauses

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SAT Writing › Correcting Punctuation Errors: Commas for Dependent Clauses

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Replace the underlined portion with the answer choice that results in a sentence that is clear, precise, and meets the requirements of standard written English. One of the answer choices reproduces the underlined portion as it is written in the sentence.

Although many species of cacti are native to the Sonoran desert only one variety has distinctive bright blue flowers.

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Replace the underlined portion with the answer choice that results in a sentence that is clear, precise, and meets the requirements of standard written English. One of the answer choices reproduces the underlined portion as it is written in the sentence.

As soon as my sister leaves the house I’m going to have to frost the cake for her surprise party.

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Replace the underlined portion with the answer choice that results in a sentence that is clear, precise, and meets the requirements of standard written English. One of the answer choices reproduces the underlined portion as it is written in the sentence.

Since Gerald doesn’t have enough money. He has to take a second job cleaning bathrooms.

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Replace the underlined portion with the answer choice that results in a sentence that is clear, precise, and meets the requirements of standard written English. One of the answer choices reproduces the underlined portion as it is written in the sentence.

Lucy shouldn’t enter the scuba diving contest, as she only recently began lessons and isn’t a confident diver yet.

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Replace the underlined portion with the answer choice that results in a sentence that is clear, precise, and meets the requirements of standard written English. One of the answer choices reproduces the underlined portion as it is written in the sentence.

Unless she passes the final exam on Shakespeare; she’s going to fail the class.

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Replace the underlined portion with the answer choice that results in a sentence that is clear, precise, and meets the requirements of standard written English.

The issue proved to be a hot topic for years as ten years later it was still being debated in leading universities.

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Replace the underlined portion with the answer choice that results in a sentence that is clear, precise, and meets the requirements of standard written English. One of the answer choices reproduces the underlined portion as it is written in the sentence.

As someone who used to participate in equestrian competitions: I certainly understand the draw of horseback riding.

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Select the underlined word or phrase that needs to be changed to make the sentence correct. Some sentences contain no error at all.

The budding writer was confident in her ability to write plays and poems but she wasn't sure she would be able to write a novel.

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Replace the underlined portion with the answer choice that results in a sentence that is clear, precise, and meets the requirements of standard written English. One of the answer choices reproduces the underlined portion as it is written in the sentence.

Before the ants arrive we should eat the picnic, that Laura packed.

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Replace the underlined portion with the answer choice that results in a sentence that is clear, precise, and meets the requirements of standard written English. One of the answer choices reproduces the underlined portion as it is written in the sentence.

Beginning many years ago the crawdad boil had become a much-loved annual tradition for campers at Lake Susanna.

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