SAT Writing Practice Questions

Category - SAT Writing

Which course of action most improves the following sentence?

During the primaries, all three Democratic candidates levied serious allegations against each other, only to retract them during the general election.

  1. Change retract to retrack.
  2. Change primaries to primarys.
  3. Change levied to leveled.
  4. Make this into two separate sentences.
Explanation

Answer:C - The sentence is most improved by using the word levied instead of leveled. Taxes and fines are levied against a person. Level means to take aim and can be used figuratively like in the sentence above.

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