PSAT English Usage Review
Terms
undefined, object
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- agree
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to a proposal
with a perosn
inanimate things can agree With each other - amount
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a quantity of something that can't be counted (sing noun)
number resfers to countable items (plural noun) - disinterested
- impartiality
- uninterested
- not interested
- farther
- additional distance
- further
- additioal time, amount, abstract
- fewer
- refers to individula countable items (plural noun)
- less
- refers to general amounts (sing noun)
- lay
- put/place, takes a direct obj.
- lie
- doenst take obj, reline/be situated
- which
- never refers to people. for thing(s)
- that
- person (less used), for thing(s)
- whose
- possessive
- correcting sentences
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1. check subject verb agreement (cross out prep phrase)
2.correct pronouns (split doubles)
3. who/whom (substitue with personal pronouns-whom replaces m words)
4. parallel structure
5. rid of danglin particples (-1ing, -ed verbs that begin sentences but dont matych subject) - different from vs. different than
- different from is correct
- each other vs. one another
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each other=two person
one another=three or more - flout
- to mock
- flaunt
- to show off
- hanged
- executed
- hung
- suspended in space
- i asked if vs. i asked whether
- whether is correct
- in regard to vs. in regards to
- in regard to=correct
- practical
-
fitted for actual work
useful - practicable
- feasible, useable
- try and see vs. try to see
- try to see =correct
- continual
- happening at intervals
- continuous
- going on without interruption
- as vs. like
- as can be used as a conjunction and can have a verb follow it; like can't