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Extra Credit Assignment
Your Task
1. Complete the “SAT Question of the Day” at www.collegeboard.com or download the app. Print the answer
page with the explanation after you have correctly answered the question.
2. Complete ten questions every five weeks, print the answer page and submit them on the assigned due dates.
Five of the questions must be grammar questions and five of them must be vocabulary.
3. In addition to printing the answer page, you must also define the appropriate grammar rules or unfamiliar
vocabulary words for each question. Please provide the source(s) for all definitions and grammar rules.
Vocabulary Example:
1) Cecily is worried that, with all the recent innovations in computing, her five-year-old laptop and its software
will soon be -------.
Answer Choices
(A) redundant - characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas
(B) obsolete - no longer in general use
(C) unnecessary
(D) renewable
(E) valuable
*All definitions provided by www.dictionary.com
Correct!
Explanation
Choice (B) is correct. It is logical that the owner of a five-year-old computer would be concerned that her machine
would soon be “obsolete,” or no longer useful, given the recent changes in computing
Grammar Example:
2) Scenes from the everyday lives of African Americans, which are realistically depicted in the paintings of Henry
Ossawa Tanner.
Answer Choices
(A) Scenes from the everyday lives of African Americans, which are realistically depicted in the paintings of Henry
Ossawa Tanner.
(B) Scenes from the everyday lives of African Americans being realistically depicted in the paintings of Henry Ossawa
Tanner.
(C) The paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner realistically depict scenes from the everyday lives of African Americans.
(D) Henry Ossawa Tanner, in his realistic paintings, depicting scenes from the everyday lives of African Americans.
(E) Henry Ossawa Tanner, whose paintings realistically depict scenes from the everyday lives of African Americans.
Correct!
Explanation
For a sentence to be grammatically complete, it must include both a subject and a main verb. When a sentence lacks
either a subject or a main verb, the result is a sentence fragment. In this example all options but (C) are sentence
fragments
 Subject – The subject of a sentence or clause is the part of the sentence or clause about which something is
being said. It is usually the doer of the action. It is a noun or a pronoun.
(http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000006.htm)
 Main Verb - The part of speech (or word class) that describes an action or occurrence or indicates a state of
being. There are two main classes of verbs: (1) the large open class of lexical verbs (also known as main verbs or
full verbs--that is, verbs that aren't dependent on other verbs); and (2) the small closed class of auxiliary verbs
(also called helping verbs). (http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/verbterm.htm)
 Sentence Fragment - A sentence fragment:
 lacks a verb: The colorfully adorned circus clown.
 or lacks a subject: Tumbled across the entire length of the arena.
 or is a subordinate clause, or dependent clause, not attached to a complete sentence: Into the lap of a ferocious,
hungry lion.