10 Question PSAT

Grammar Warm Up
• 1. The nature trail is six feet wide and seven miles long.
It slithers through the forest like a snake curving, and
bending along the banks of the river.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. snake curving and, bending

• C. snake curving and bending

• D. snake, curving, and bending

• 2. The county cleared this path and paved it with packed
gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and
bike.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. knowing they

• C. that they

• D. people
• 3. Today, Luigi’s battery is fully charged, I know I can go
all the way to the end of the trail and back. But I always
carry a cell phone on me just in case.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. charged, because of that,

• C. charged, this means that

• D. charged, so
• 4. The wind ruffles my hair and chills my face as I
bounce gently, along in my padded chair.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. gentle, along

• C. gently along

• D. gentle along
• 5. Bicyclists streak past in a blur of color and a cloud of
dust I don’t understand their hurry.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. dust, however,

• C. dust.

• D. dust,
• 6. I leave the trail and come out into the open, manicured
park at the trails end.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. trail’s

• C. trails’

• D. trails’s
• 7. At 2 p.m., on October 27, 1904; thousands of New
York City residents poured into the streets of Manhattan.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904, thousands

• C. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904; thousands,

• D. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904, thousands,

• 8. The city was celebrating an incredible engineering
feat; the completion of the first section of the New York
City Subway.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. feat, over

• C. feat:

• D. feat
• 9. The first train took twenty-six minutes to complete the
route, which ran from City Hall to West 145th Street in
under a half an hour.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. in the completion of its route

• C. in twenty-six minutes

• D. DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence

with a period.
• 10. As early as 1865, there had been proposals for a New
York subway, but that took decades to resolve the many
political, financial and technical challenges.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. it

• C. those

• D. DELETE the underlined portion

 Let’s go over the answers!

Rotate clockwise at your table and write “checked

by” and your name at the bottom of your paper!
• 1. The nature trail is six feet wide and seven miles long.
It slithers through the forest like a snake curving, and
bending along the banks of the river.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. snake curving and, bending

• C. snake curving and bending (unnecessary

comma)

• D. snake, curving, and bending

• 2. The county cleared this path and paved it with packed
gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and
bike.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. knowing they

• C. that they

• D. people (unclear pronoun reference)

• 3. Today, Luigi’s battery is fully charged, I know I can go
all the way to the end of the trail and back. But I always
carry a cell phone on me just in case.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. charged, because of that,

• C. charged, this means that

• D. charged, so (comma splice/run-on)

• 4. The wind ruffles my hair and chills my face as I
bounce gently, along in my padded chair.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. gentle, along

• C. gently along (unnecessary comma)

• D. gentle along
• 5. Bicyclists streak past in a blur of color and a cloud of
dust I don’t understand their hurry.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. dust, however,

• C. dust. (run-on)

• D. dust,
• 6. I leave the trail and come out into the open, manicured
park at the trails end.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. trail’s (use apostrophe to show possession)

• C. trails’

• D. trails’s
• 7. At 2 p.m., on October 27, 1904; thousands of New
York City residents poured into the streets of Manhattan.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904, thousands

(comma after introductory phrase/date)

• C. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904; thousands,

• D. 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904, thousands,

• 8. The city was celebrating an incredible engineering
feat; the completion of the first section of the New York
City Subway.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. feat, over

• C. feat: (confusing semi-colon and colon)

• D. feat
• 9. The first train took twenty-six minutes to complete the
route, which ran from City Hall to West 145th Street in
under a half an hour.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. in the completion of its route

• C. in twenty-six minutes

• D. DELETE the underlined portion and end the

sentence with a period. (be concise; avoid
wordiness and unnecessary repetition)
• 10. As early as 1865, there had been proposals for a New
York subway, but that took decades to resolve the many
political, financial and technical challenges.

• A. NO CHANGE

• B. it (unclear pronoun reference)

• C. those

• D. DELETE the underlined portion