Every SAT Grammar Rule in 15 Minutes

every sat grammar rule in around 15

minutes rule number one periods are

equal to semicolons here are two

independent clauses independent clause

means that the sentence can kind of

stand alone rishab is a great guy can

stand alone he has 100,000 subscribers

can stand alone to put them together we

either need to use a period duh or we

can use a semicolon because periods are

equal to semicolons on the digital sat

as you can see semicolon period next

before conjunctive adverbs I have no

idea what a conjunctive adverb is but

all you need to know is when you're

using a word like however therefore or

another word like that where it's kind

of like this transition sort of word all

you need to do is put a semicolon right

before it or you could put a period

because once again periods are are equal

to semicolons so rishab is a great guy

Standalone sentence however it seems

like you're not subscribed Standalone

sentence put them together you can

either use a period in between and

capitalize that h on the however or put

them together and make it not

capitalized next tricky sentence

boundary questions this is also relating

to those periods which one's correct

rishop Jane is a Harvard student who

makes videos in his free time in 2024 he

hit 100,000 subscribers rishop Jane is a

Harvard student who makes videos in his

free time in 2024 he hit 100,000

subscribers I think it's pretty clear

the second one sounds correct and this

is going to be a common theme throughout

this video sounding these questions out

in your head and developing a good voice

inside of yourself for the SAT is a

great way to do this and the way to do

it is to practice I'm going to give you

some tips on how to practice as well but

as you guys can see here this is a

sentence boundary it's pretty obvious

here that if we just have the in 2024

that's like not relating to this past

sentence we need to split those apart so

now as you guys can see here this is the

correct answer let's move on to the next

rule but before we do that this video is

just going to be rapid fire grammar

rules and some tips and advice I'd

highly encourage you not to skip around

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your sat and this is thanks to Erica

melts who's the master of sat reading

and writing prep I've gone through her

materials and condensed it into every

grammar rule that you need to know for

the SAT in this video rule number two is

that colons are equal to dashes and you

can use these in several ways one is

before a list and I think a lot of you

guys will probably know this that if you

have this list often times you can use a

colon before it but there's a couple

different ways that you can do it and

some of them are not correct as you can

see here so I'd encourage you to pause

the video and just quickly try to see

which one is correct

or which ones are correct hint hint so

as you can see here there are two that

are correct either you can use a colon

right here or a dash right here because

colons are equal to dashes but the way

the way that you can use these

incorrectly is if you put a random word

that is just not right rishab has

interest in Colon Neuroscience by

engineering education science

communication the colon needs to come

after kind of you finish describing

you're about to describe because the

list is completely you know on its own

here and and it's dependent on what you

say right before so you have to describe

what that's going to be rishop has

interest in four areas Neuroscience by

engineering education and science

communication is the way to do it not

saying such as colon or in Colon this is

a common mistake made by a lot of

students you can also use these before

an explanation quoting Erica Meltzer

here when a colon or Dash separates two

sentences it is identical to a period or

semicolon so more equivalencies here

when rishab hit 100,000 subscribers his

channel was famous students across the

world flocked to his advice online now

arguably you could say hey let me you

know put a period or a semicolon here

and um yeah you can actually do that it

is identical here to separate these two

sentences but what you can do for

explanation questions in particular

where you have something and then you're

expl explaining it further is to use a

colon or a Dash rule number three is

comma and Fanboys and just knowing this

if you don't know it or already will

improve your ebrw score by 10 20 30

points um so basically right here you'll

often see the word but or so rishab won

science fair in high school so he

founded science fair. but what they're

going to do to try to trip you up is not

put a comma before it so whenever you

use a Fanboys and the Fanboys were are

for and nor but or yet so whenever you

use one of these words just memorize

Fanboys Fanboys Fanboys you have to have

a comma right before it otherwise the

sentence is incorrect and um you know as

you guys can see here there's a comma

comma so these are correct sentences now

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much rule number four is for commas and

dependent clauses so dependent clauses

are Converse to independent clauses

which I told you about at the beginning

of this video because dependent clauses

are not really Standalone right if you

just say it has buildings from many

different areas what is it right what

are you referring to so it's dependent

on the Clause that we have right before

here which is because London is very old

you know that is they're dependent on

each other and in order to separate them

what we can do here is is put a comma in

between them so because London is a very

old city it has buildings from many

different area eras and as you can see I

almost subconsciously paused there and

that's a good indication that there's

going to be a comma so whenever you're

sounding something out in your head if

you're pausing you probably need some

sort of like punctuation there it's a

period to indicate the start of the new

sentence or something like that but in

this case because we have these

dependent clause we have to separate

them using this

comma rule number five is about

transition words and phrases and so

there are a ton of different transition

words these in addition moreover you

know secondly however nevertheless and

all of these different words right and

you'll be asked to fill in a missing

word on your test you'll just have this

underlined and say fill in this word and

you could use multiple words sometimes

you know you could have two words

and they might be grammatically correct

but they might not make sense so if

you're trying to contradict something

like you know rishab has 100,000

subscribers blank he is still not super

well known outside right it's clear

there you need a contradictor there that

he has 100,000 subscribers yet or but

you know he still doesn't so there you

would do a however nevertheless or in

contrast or something like that rule

number six is about non-essential

information so if you're reading a

sentence and you notice you know this

type of question where it gives you

these choices and there's this phrase

that's repeated which is a very old city

which is very old city which you can

just delete from the sentence and it

still makes sense like London has some

extremely modern parts that is a

standalone sentence but it can be you

know deleted you can have this delete

this which is a very old city and the

sentence still makes sense but if you

delete has some extremely modern parts

then the sentence doesn't make sense

right so take that part that is

nonessential information and make sure

you surround it by either a comma comma

or a dash dash now you might be

wondering RAB why is this one incorrect

it has a dash and a comma you can't mix

and match you have to either do the dash

dash or the comma comma Now SAT practice

T tips before we get into the rest of

the rules one is I'd highly encourage

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I'll have a free pdf handout for

downloading all 16 of these rules you

can print them out and you can click the

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that it's pretty simple you can just

have it on your desk when you're

practicing now speaking of practicing I

have literally had hundred hundreds of

thousands of students use my advice for

the SAT and ACT and one of the things

that I preach a ton is the morning of

your test when you're going to your car

ride or your test center right read

these passages out loud just have some

of them on on the notes app of your

phone or pull up a PDF real quick and

just practice reading them out loud and

enunciate stuff and practice reading

them in your head this will help you a

lot it'll warm up your brain before this

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and let's get into rule number seven

which is about additional comma uses so

commas keep coming up one other way to

use it is to separate items in a list

and arguably this is the most common so

you've probably seen this a ton like rub

ordered carrots apples and bananas but

if you don't know already this is the

form you would do it you have to have

the comma after each word except the

last word so this is applying to three

or more words right so if you're just

Rish ordered carrots and apples you

don't need a comma there but three or

more words you do carrots comma apples

comma and and then your final word you

can also use them to separate adjectives

whose order could be reversed adjectives

are those describer words if you don't

remember from you know grammar class way

back right rishab is a cool comma smart

individual how this would sound right

rishab is a cool smart individual there

is that intentional pause there where

you need that you can't just say rishab

is a cool smart individual that would

not look correct nor does it sound

correct so I would highly you know just

look at this sound it out and imagine

selecting this choice on your test I

think it's pretty straightforward if you

sound it out and recognize that there's

a pause there when you're having two or

more adjectives and um yeah that's

pretty much it now on to rule number

eight this is really high Roi and I

think if you don't know these it can

improve your score very rapidly

so to briefly go over these these three

are very similar it's there and who um

so for its in everyday conversation we

say like it's black it's white it's red

right but when you do that you secretly

have this apostrophe here which is

actually shortening the two words it is

so you're saying it is black it is white

and that's where you have that

apostrophe versus indicating possess it

in which case you would see say like

let's say you're talking about cat its

fur was black and there it's possessive

similar here we have there but there's

an apostrophe secretly we're trying to

say they are so they're short well

actually you're saying they are short

the and then the second there here is

possessive so that's relating to

something um and this could be you know

uh Bob went to school today their

backpack was black right you're

indicating a possessive for something

and then the final there this one's

really straightforward it's just there

are four meas or something like that um

and that one should be distinguished

from the other two make sure you know

these spellings um and then the final

one here I have is who's and who's

similarly once again this apostrophe is

actually meaning who is so you know uh

take that as you will and who's is the

possessive one so you can come up with

your own example sentences I don't want

to blabber this anymore more cuz it's

very similar to these other ones I just

described and then I also included these

plural nouns here just to give you an

example so when we're dealing with like

let's say the the cell like the

fundamental unit of biology right so the

cell's wall was thick so there you're

indicating one cell but let's say you're

talking about multiple cells well that's

where you have this weird apostrophy

apostrophy thing after the word so it's

like cells is right instead of saying

cells a apostrophe and then another s

because it like ends in an S you just

kind of concatenate it to the single

apostrophe here and this can come in

multiple different forms like dresses

like you're talking about multiple

dresses but something that's possessive

to those dresses be dresses and then

apostrophe rule number nine is about

compound compound subjects but here my

rule is literally just to sound it out

if you say these in your head it's going

to make sense so pause the video here

and just try sounding it out I think

memorizing all these different grammar

rules like what is a compound subject

and so on will take really really long

time it's way easier for for time and

Sanity to just try saying it out loud

see if they sound right rule number 10

is verb tenses and this is really

important you probably know this from

like grade school but you want to

maintain tenses in a sentence so um for

instance I'm going to skip ahead here

just for a second um you know let's say

something was in the past well you want

to maintain that you know indication for

the entire sentence so published is in

the past tense right so you would say

published published uh let's say you're

talking about running that's you know

rishab is running a YouTube channel so

then throughout the sentence you want to

keep that consistent rishab is running

dancing recording singing not rishab ran

and is recording and danced and is

singing right that doesn't really makes

sense you just keep the tense the same

throughout the sentence um and as you

can see here I have a little hack for

you and that's if you're dealing with

the word for or since in a sentence um

there you have to use have been so um as

you can see for and since it kind of

indicates like the past tense and so

there the proper adjustment here would

be to say have been instead of are

because R indicates something that is

currently true when you're dealing with

for and since it's kind of currently

true but also in the past so you say

have

been um and then the final part of this

is about these one-word past form and

this is to describe a past action that

has occurred um so if you just have like

one past action here um you would want

to use one word to describe it so Rachel

Carson blanked her silent or Silent

Spring instead of saying has published

Silent Spring because it's a past action

you just say published and by the way

the reason why I'm highlighting this one

in particular is just because it has

higher error rates and so that's why I'm

including it in this video this next one

is really confusing and it's about

passive voice if you've ever used a tool

grammarly which is like this online

software um it highlights word some

sentences and will'll say hey you're

using a passive voice here and while it

may seem like hey I'm not like gramat Al

incorrect here it just makes more sense

to not be passive and you want to kind

of be more assertive here in this

conversation many people who seriously

consider pursuing a career in politics

decide against doing so because they are

concerned about maintaining their

privacy sounds great but if you instead

say in politics decide against doing so

because concerns are had by them that

just sounds kind of weird you know that

something is true but you're not just

stating it it's like you're skirting

around it and that's an indication of

passive voice so if you see a couple

sentences they all seem kind of correct

choose one that sounds the best and that

is being more or being less passive rule

number 12 is about parallel structure um

basically here once again like you can

kind of sound these ones out rishop Jane

is running sing and dancing no it

doesn't make sense rishop Jane is

running singing and dancing so keep

those in throughout if it's like a verb

verb verb if it's a noun noun noun same

thing make sure to keep it parallel they

all sound the same um and that's the

best way to put it I think if I belabor

this too long it's not worth you just

doing practice questions in place of

listening to someone Yap about you know

those different grammar modifiers and

things so let's move on to dangling

modifiers and this one has a funny word

but basically you know if you're saying

something is born in 2004 the next word

um you have to make it pertain to what

is being said so if you say born in 2004

computer were RB's hobby you kind of

understand yeah like you're describing

RBS cuz obviously computers came way

before but in that case you need to have

rubs directly after um what is being

born in

2004 rule number 14 is about faulty

comparisons we're almost here so this

one is is really tricky and it comes up

on the ACT even CU I know this CU I

remember learning this rule for my ACT

um and basically if you're comparing two

things like YouTube videos and Bob

that's faulty because YouTube videos are

not akin to Bob but you would in in this

case you would actually be comparing the

Tik toks of Bob or the videos that Bob

made or videos of Bob to the YouTube

videos of Bishop James you're not

comparing Bob directly to videos because

those are two different things it's

faulty so you need to make sure that

you're properly describing what of Bob

to compare and so here's another example

that is slightly different and in my

opinion probably easier um rishab has

videos that are nearly as good as Acy um

here it's very clear to spot that Acy is

a platform right so how can you compare

that directly to videos well we want to

say the correct forms would either be to

say ace Le or as good as those of asley

to indicate we're talking about videos

here rule number 15

quantity words um this is a super easy

formula to just kind of memorize here if

you're dealing with plural words make

sure to use the words number many and

fewer if you're dealing with singular

use amount much and less so there were

fewer subscribers not less subscribers

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