SAT adjectives constitute a major part of the SAT exam, mainly the critical reading and writing sections. Here is a list of SAT adjective types and degree of comparisons that will help you in scoring higher SAT score.

Kinds of Adjective

1. Adjectives of Quality: Shows the traits of a person or a thing.

Eg.(a)  Flowers were plucked fresh.

Confusing Words:

(a) Verbal/oral: Verbal pertains to words. Oral refers to mouth.

(b) Oral means mouth.

Ex. His verbal words spoken orally are more dangerous than his figures on paper.

(b) Common/Mutual:

Common means shared by all concerned. Mutual means in relation to each other.

Ex. It is common to everyone that the two girls do not share a very good mutual understanding.

2. Adjective of Quantity

It shows how much of a thing is meant.

Confusing Words:

Little/ a little/ the little

Little has a negative meaning and means hardly anything. (He has little hope of recovery)

A Little has a positive meaning. It means some, though not much. (He has a little hope of recovery).

The Little means not much but all that there is. (The little money Andrew had has gone to his stepbrother) Read more…

Are you drawing up a blank while filling in the blanks? A closer look at the SAT Sentence Completion Questions and the good news is that there are pretty well-defined procedures for tackling these sentence completions. SAT sentence completion questions involve a sentence with one or two blanks where the right word/s needs to be placed most rationally. Here are the top strategies you’d like to know to follow —-

1) Read and read again, the Sentence carefully without looking at the word choices. Find the main idea of the sentence. Understand its tone. Then focus on the logical relationships, direction and its meanings.

2) Look for Clues or Hint words: You should always be able to find hints in the main sentence, encircle them for reference and understand whether these words change the direction of the sentence. For example

AMOUNT WORDS

always, all,  completely, more than, less than, fewer, best, worse, half, most, almost, completely, minimally,never, none

CAUSE-EFFECT WORDS

as a result, because, consequently, hence, if, in order to, so, then, therefore

SYNONYMs

also, and, another, besides, for example, furthermore, in addition, in other words, moreover

ANTONYMs

but, if, nor, although, nevertheless, despite, even though, in contrast, however, in spite of, instead, on the contrary, on the other hand, rather, still, yet, conversely Read more…

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