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SAT Writing

Category - Improving Sentences

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Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A.

Interestingly, she was a member of Congress before the U.S. Constitutional Amendment XIX granting women the right to vote was ratified.
  1. Interestingly, she was a member of Congress before the U.S. Constitutional Amendment XIX granting women the right to vote was ratified.
  2. Interestingly, she is a member of Congress before the U.S. Constitutional Amendment XIX, granting women the right to vote, was ratified.
  3. Interestingly, she was a member of Congress before U.S. Constitutional Amendment XIX is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
  4. Interestingly, she was a member of Congress before the ratification of U.S. Constitutional Amendment XIX, which granted women the right to vote.
Explanation
Answer: D - The best choice is “Interestingly, she was a member of Congress before the ratification of U.S. Constitutional Amendment XIX, which granted women the right to vote.”

In its original form, the sentence can confuse readers because the lack of commas. The ratification of the amendment has already occurred, so the sentence should include past tense verbs. The pronoun “which” properly represents the antecedent “U.S. Constitutional Amendment XIX.”
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