Question ID 3b9318f2

Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Hard

Conventions and Sense

ID: 3b9318f2
In assessing the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, ______ have missed his equally deep
engagement with Japanese artistic traditions such as Noh theater.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. many critics have focused on Kurosawa’s use of Western literary sources but

B. Kurosawa’s use of Western literary sources has been the focus of many critics, who

C. there are many critics who have focused on Kurosawa’s use of Western literary sources, but they

D. the focus of many critics has been on Kurosawa’s use of Western literary sources; they
Question ID 121aae1f
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SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Easy

Conventions

ID: 121aae1f
Human-made (synthetic) fibers used in clothes and many other consumer products are more durable than
most natural plant ______ the manufacture of synthetic fibers requires toxic chemical solvents that can
pollute air and water.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. fibers,

B. fibers but

C. fibers

D. fibers, but
Question ID 178c8b8e
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SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Medium

Conventions and Sense

ID: 178c8b8e
Cheng Dang and her colleagues at the University of Washington recently ran simulations to determine the
extent to which individual snow ______ affect the amount of light reflecting off a snowy surface.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. grain’s physical properties’

B. grains’ physical properties

C. grains’ physical property’s

D. grains physical properties

Question ID 16b5d47b
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: 16b5d47b
American poet Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on scraps of paper, but she also took steps to
collect these works. From 1858 to around 1864, for example, she copied more than 800 of ______ into forty
homemade booklets (known as fascicles).

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. them

B. this

C. that

D. it
Question ID 8d1ffc78
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: 8d1ffc78
“He was just the man for such a place, and it was just the place for such a man.” This line is from Frederick
Douglass’s autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). It’s an example of antimetabole,
a writing technique that ______ emphasis by repeating a statement in a reversed order.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. create

B. are creating

C. have created

D. creates
Question ID 09333379
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Medium

Conventions

ID: 09333379
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history by refusing to comply with the segregated seating policy on a
Montgomery, Alabama, bus, a fifteen-year-old Montgomery girl named Claudette Colvin was arrested for the
same ______ to some historians, Colvin’s arrest led to Parks’s action and eventually to the desegregation of
Montgomery’s bus system.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. offense. According

B. offense, according

C. offense according

D. offense and according

Question ID aca97591
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: aca97591
Multiple newspapers ______ the Spanish-speaking population of Washington, DC, including El Tiempo Latino
and Washington Hispanic.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. serve

B. having served

C. to serve

D. serving
Question ID 79cfe2cc
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: 79cfe2cc
During the English neoclassical period (1660–1789), many writers imitated the epic poetry and satires of
ancient Greece and Rome. They were not the first in England to adopt the literary modes of classical ______
some of the most prominent figures of the earlier Renaissance period were also influenced by ancient Greek
and Roman literature.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. antiquity, however

B. antiquity, however,

C. antiquity, however;

D. antiquity; however,
Question ID 3b4eff82
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: 3b4eff82
Literary agents estimate that more than half of all nonfiction books credited to a celebrity or other public
figure are in fact written by ghostwriters, professional authors who are paid to write other ______ but whose
names never appear on book covers.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. people’s stories

B. peoples story’s

C. peoples stories

D. people’s story’s
Question ID 61598256
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: 61598256
In the Inca Empire (1438–1533), ayllus ______ family clans that ranged in size from small groups to
thousands of people.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. is

B. was

C. has been

D. were
Question ID c709441f
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Medium

Conventions and Sense

ID: c709441f
French philosopher René Descartes doubted whether he could prove his own existence. Eventually, he found
proof in his famous phrase “I think, therefore I am.” The ______ complexity: only those who exist would be
able to ponder their existence.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. phrases’ simplicity masks its

B. phrases simplicity masks their

C. phrase’s simplicity masks their

D. phrase’s simplicity masks its

Question ID d5e08dce
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: d5e08dce
Latin America is known to have dozens, if not hundreds, of popular dance forms. Only five of these dances
are included in international ballroom dance ______ rumba, samba, cha-cha-cha, paso doble, and jive—the last
of which is grouped with the other Latin dances despite not having Latin roots.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. competitions, however:

B. competitions, however,

C. competitions, however;

D. competitions; however,
Question ID 8bd8f58c
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Medium

Conventions and Sense

ID: 8bd8f58c
The violins handmade in the seventeenth century by Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari have been
celebrated as some of the finest in the world. In close collaboration with musicians, Stradivari introduced
changes to the shape of a traditional violin, flattening some of the instrument’s curves and making ______
lighter overall.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. those

B. one

C. them

D. it
Question ID f069ac6f
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: f069ac6f
How did whales, once no bigger than seals, evolve to become the largest animals on Earth? Brazilian
biologist Mariana Nery believes the answer might be found in whales’ DNA. In January 2023, Nery and her
colleagues ______ a study showing changes over time in four whale genes associated with body size.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. published

B. publishing

C. having published

D. to publish
Question ID 237319f0
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: 237319f0
Richard Spikes was a prolific African American inventor known for his contributions to automotive
engineering. Between 1907 and 1946, he patented many inventions, ______ an automobile turn signal, a
safety brake, and—most famously—the first automatic gearshift.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. included

B. includes

C. including

D. will include
Question ID 84225518
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: 84225518
With some 16,000 in attendance, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and ______ or FESTAC
‘77, as the event was more commonly known—became the largest pan-African event on record. FESTAC drew
people from around the world to Lagos, Nigeria, for a monthlong celebration of Black and African art,
scholarship, and activism.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. Culture:

B. Culture—

C. Culture,

D. Culture
Question ID 52930290
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Medium

Conventions and Sense

ID: 52930290
Tortoises can be found in many works of literature. For example, in Tom Stoppard’s 1993 play Arcadia, there
is a tortoise that ______ by two names (Plautus and Lightning) and appears in both of the play’s parallel
timelines. As a character, the tortoise symbolizes the connection between the past and present.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. goes

B. will have gone

C. went

D. had gone
Question ID 992e6994
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Medium

Conventions and Sense

ID: 992e6994
Far from being modern inventions, ______ more than 5,000 years ago.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia used drinking straws

B. drinking straws were used by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia

C. the use of drinking straws by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia happened

D. ancient Mesopotamia was home to Sumerians who used drinking straws

Question ID 1483cd89
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Medium

Conventions and Sense

ID: 1483cd89
In Death Valley National Park’s Racetrack Playa, a flat, dry lakebed, are 162 rocks—some weighing less than a
pound but others almost 700 pounds—that move periodically from place to place, seemingly of their own
volition. Racetrack-like trails in the ______ mysterious migration.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. playas sediment mark the rock’s

B. playa’s sediment mark the rocks

C. playa’s sediment mark the rocks’

D. playas’ sediment mark the rocks’

Question ID 1e1286b0
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Medium

Conventions and Sense

ID: 1e1286b0
Solarpunk is an art movement that imagines renewable energy–powered technology infused
complementarily into nature. In Paolo Bacigalupi’s solarpunk short story “Efficiency,” an artificial intelligence
that absorbs sustainable energies, redistributing them through intricate networks of weights and generators,
______ Chicago’s energy grid.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. have been powering

B. power

C. powers

D. are powering
Question ID 306ada66
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: 306ada66
A group of ecologists led by Axel Mithöfer at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany
examined the defensive responses of two varieties of the sweet potato ______ TN57, which is known for its
insect resistance, and TN66, which is much more susceptible to pests.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. plant.

B. plant;

C. plant

D. plant:
Question ID 3839f96c
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: 3839f96c
On July 23, 1854, a clipper ship called the Flying Cloud entered San Francisco ______ left New York Harbor
under the guidance of Captain Josiah Perkins Creesy and his wife, navigator Eleanor Creesy, a mere 89 days
and 8 hours earlier, the celebrated ship set a record that would stand for 135 years.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. Bay and having

B. Bay. Having

C. Bay, having

D. Bay having
Question ID 103d9693
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Easy

Conventions

ID: 103d9693
Psychophysicist Howard Moskowitz was hired by a soda company to determine how much artificial
sweetener ______ After conducting consumer taste tests, he found that no such ideal existed: participants
expressed a wide range of preferences for different blends of sweetener, carbonization, and flavoring.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. do most people prefer in a diet drink?

B. do most people prefer in a diet drink.

C. most people prefer in a diet drink?

D. most people prefer in a diet drink.

Question ID 4800f3d3
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: 4800f3d3
From afar, African American fiber artist Bisa Butler’s portraits look like paintings, their depictions of human
faces, bodies, and clothing so intricate that it seems only a fine brush could have rendered them. When
viewed up close, however, the portraits reveal themselves to be ______ stitching barely visible among the
thousands of pieces of printed, microcut fabric.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. quilts, and the

B. quilts, the

C. quilts; the

D. quilts. The
Question ID ca565d66
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Easy

Conventions

ID: ca565d66
Many Samoans enjoy a sport called kilikiti. This bat-and-ball game was derived from ______ kilikiti differs
from cricket in a few key ways.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. cricket but:

B. cricket but,

C. cricket, but

D. cricket, but,
Question ID 4efacd65
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SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Medium

Conventions and Sense

ID: 4efacd65
Nuhād al-Ḥaddād, known as Fairuz, was one of the most beloved Lebanese singers of the twentieth century.
Her broad singing repertoire—which included traditional forms, such as the Arabic qasida and maqam,
alongside modern pop and jazz styles—lent Fairuz a timeless, cross-generational appeal, ______ her the
moniker “the soul of Lebanon.”

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. earned

B. had earned

C. earning

D. earn
Question ID c495233f
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: c495233f
In the historical novel The Surrender Tree, Cuban American author Margarita Engle uses poetry rather than
prose ______ the true story of Cuban folk hero Rosa La Bayamesa.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. tells

B. told

C. is telling

D. to tell
Question ID fdb98f0e
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: fdb98f0e
In modern plays, actors typically won’t acknowledge the ______ do so breaks the fourth wall, a metaphorical
barrier between actors and audiences that allows viewers to suspend the knowledge that they’re watching a
staged performance.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. audience. As to

B. audience to

C. audience. To

D. audience, to
Question ID 141a9dd4
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: 141a9dd4
One of the few African American global explorers during the turn of the 20th century, ______

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. Matthew Henson made several treks across Greenland between 1891 and 1909.

B. 1891 and 1909 were the years between which Matthew Henson made several treks across Greenland.

C. Greenland was where Matthew Henson made several treks between 1891 and 1909.

D. several treks across Greenland were made by Matthew Henson between 1891 and 1909.
Question ID 130a364f
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Medium

Conventions

ID: 130a364f
The first computerized spreadsheet, Dan Bricklin’s VisiCalc, improved financial recordkeeping not only by
providing users with an easy means of adjusting data in spreadsheets but also by automatically updating all
calculations that were dependent on these ______ to VisiCalc’s release, changing a paper spreadsheet often
required redoing the entire sheet by hand, a process that could take days.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. adjustments prior

B. adjustments, prior

C. adjustments. Prior

D. adjustments and prior

Question ID c1ddb039
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Hard

Conventions and Sense

ID: c1ddb039
A second-generation Japanese American, Wataru Misaka ______ in World War II (1941-45) and won two
amateur national basketball championships at the University of Utah when he joined the New York Knicks for
the 1947-48 season, becoming the first non-white basketball player in the US’s top professional league.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. already served

B. was already serving

C. already serves

D. had already served

Question ID aa21be9a
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: aa21be9a
In 2018, the innovative works of Congolese sculptor and architect Bodys Isek ______ were featured in City
Dreams, a solo exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. Kingelez;

B. Kingelez,

C. Kingelez

D. Kingelez:
Question ID a5f7262f
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: a5f7262f
In addition to advocating for South America’s independence in two political treatises, the Cartagena
Manifesto and the Letter from Jamaica, Simón Bolívar personally led armies against the Spanish, liberating
three South American territories—New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama), Venezuela, and Quito
(present-day ______ from colonial rule.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. Ecuador,)

B. Ecuador)

C. Ecuador),

D. Ecuador)—
Question ID 3baa0f75
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Easy

Conventions

ID: 3baa0f75
Before the Erie Canal was completed in 1825, transporting goods by wagon between New York City and the
Midwest took up to forty-five days and cost one hundred dollars per ton. By linking the Hudson River to Lake
______ canal reduced transport time to nine days and cut costs to six dollars per ton.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A. Erie; the

B. Erie (the

C. Erie, the

D. Erie: the
Question ID 35c6af60
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Medium

Conventions

ID: 35c6af60
Swedish scientists Eva Engvall and Peter Perlmann developed a method for measuring the concentration of
different proteins in a biological sample. Their ______ ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), is used
to detect and measure proteins that indicate the presence of certain diseases.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. method (called

B. method—called

C. method, called

D. method called
Question ID cf892a5a
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: cf892a5a
Food and the sensation of taste are central to Monique Truong’s novels. In The Book of Salt, for example, the
exiled character of Bình connects to his native Saigon through the food he prepares, while in Bitter in the
Mouth, the character of Linda ______ a form of synesthesia whereby the words she hears evoke tastes.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. experienced

B. had experienced

C. experiences

D. will be experiencing
Question ID c2fe5bbd
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Easy

Conventions

ID: c2fe5bbd
A harpsichord may look just like a piano, but the difference between the two instruments is easy to hear.
When a harpsichord’s keys are pressed, the strings inside the ______ are plucked, not struck.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. instrument:

B. instrument

C. instrument—

D. instrument,
Question ID 8f2d7e11
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: 8f2d7e11
Quantum particles of light—photons—provide an unhackable means of transmitting encryption keys over
networks, as attempts to observe particles in quantum states will invariably alter the particles ______
dismantle any information they transmit.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. and in the process,

B. and, in the process,

C. and in the process—

D. and, in the process

Question ID f0c500d1
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: f0c500d1
What makes the theremin a unique musical instrument? You play it without touching it. When you place your
______ the pitch will shift as your hands move through the air.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. hand’s between the two antenna’s,

B. hands between the two antennas,

C. hands’ between the two antennas’,

D. hands’ between the two antennas,

Question ID 9f7e7c74
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Medium

Conventions

ID: 9f7e7c74
The city of Pompeii, which was buried in ash following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, continues to
be studied by archaeologists. Unfortunately, as ______ attest, archaeological excavations have disrupted ash
deposits at the site, causing valuable information about the eruption to be lost.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. researchers, Roberto Scandone and Christopher Kilburn,

B. researchers, Roberto Scandone and Christopher Kilburn

C. researchers Roberto Scandone and Christopher Kilburn

D. researchers Roberto Scandone, and Christopher Kilburn

Question ID be5d95f7
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Hard

Conventions and Sense

ID: be5d95f7
In 1453, English King Henry VI became unfit to rule after falling gravely ill. As a result, Parliament appointed
Richard, Third Duke of York, who had a strong claim to the English throne, to rule as Lord Protector. Upon
recovering two years later, ______ forcing an angered Richard from the royal court and precipitating a series
of battles later known as the Wars of the Roses.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. Henry resumed his reign,

B. the reign of Henry resumed,

C. Henry’s reign resumed,

D. it was Henry who resumed his reign,

Question ID 5a7fd267
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: 5a7fd267
With residents from Mexico, China, El Salvador, and many other countries, Los Angeles has long been a city
of cultural diversity. Even back in the 1860s, nearly 30% of the city’s population ______ from outside the United
States.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. is being

B. was

C. is

D. will be
Question ID 81ef6c30
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: 81ef6c30
Scientists believe that, unlike most other species of barnacle, turtle barnacles (Chelonibia testudinari) can
dissolve the cement-like secretions they use to attach ______ to a sea turtle shell, enabling the barnacles to
move short distances across the shell’s surface.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. it

B. themselves

C. them

D. itself
Question ID 26a66f24
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Easy

Conventions

ID: 26a66f24
Fans of science fiction will ______ multiple references to classic sci-fi stories in Janelle Monáe’s song lyrics,
including her recurring nods to the plot of the 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. appreciate the

B. appreciate. The

C. appreciate, the

D. appreciate: the
Question ID 4b57680c
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: 4b57680c
Midway through her 1968 jazz album A Monastic Trio, Alice Coltrane switches instruments, swapping the
piano for the harp. With the same fluid style that Coltrane was famous for on piano, she ______ her fingers
across the harp strings and creates a radiant sound.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. sweep

B. are sweeping

C. were sweeping

D. sweeps
Question ID 22022bf7
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Hard

Conventions

ID: 22022bf7
In the 1950s, novel audio technologies allowed the addition of another instrument to jazz and swing ______
relatively quiet instrument, its full range of sound was finally audible alongside the blaring brass instruments
of the time, allowing flautists like Bennie Maupin and Bobbi Humphrey to perform with other jazz greats.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. music, the flute, a

B. music. The flute, a

C. music; the flute, a

D. music: the flute. A

Question ID d4c3122b
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Easy

Conventions

ID: d4c3122b
Lucía Michel of the University of Chile observed that alkaline soils contain an insoluble form of iron that
blueberry plants cannot absorb, thus inhibiting blueberry growth. If these plants were grown in alkaline soil
alongside grasses that aid in iron solubilization, ______ Michel was determined to find out.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. could the blueberries thrive.

B. the blueberries could thrive.

C. the blueberries could thrive?

D. could the blueberries thrive?

Question ID 9557577d
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Form, Structure, Easy

Conventions and Sense

ID: 9557577d
Each night in Gijón, Spain, a section of the city’s marina is bathed in a soft green glow. The source of the glow
is the Árbol de la Sidra, a large sculpture made up of 3,200 recycled glass bottles. A lamp inside the tree-
shaped structure ______ the green glass.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. will be illuminating

B. illuminates

C. would illuminate

D. illuminated
Question ID 61e6cf3b
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Easy

Conventions

ID: 61e6cf3b
Located in the northern United States, the Great Lakes Basin contains roughly 35,000 islands. Lake Superior
has Grand Island, for example. Lake Michigan has Belle Isle. Lake Huron, though, is home ______ the largest
island of them all: Manitoulin Island.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. to;

B. to—

C. to

D. to,
Question ID b249902a
Assessment Test Domain Skill Difficulty

SAT Reading and Writing Standard English Boundaries Medium

Conventions

ID: b249902a
Detroit natives Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey have combined their two passions, Detroit and beekeeping,
to improve the health of their city’s flowers and other vegetation. In 2017, the couple converted a vacant lot in
the city into an ______ in the years that followed they acquired nine additional lots and established more than
35 hives.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. apiary,

B. apiary, and

C. apiary and

D. apiary