The SAT loves a dangling modifier. This game trains you to ask, every time: who or what is this sentence really about?
The 1600 Game
When a sentence opens with a modifying phrase and a comma, the subject right after must be the thing the phrase describes. Find the answer whose subject fits.
Ignore the rest of the answer. Just look at the subject and ask yourself “Who or what?”
“Exhausted from months of grueling rehearsals, ___”
Ask
Who or what was exhausted from rehearsals?
→ the dancers were exhausted. Not “the choreography.” Not “the performance.” The dancers.
In each answer, the subject is underlined for you. Your job: find the one whose subject correctly answers the “Who or what?” question.
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